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Rating: ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️ (6 Stars)
Plot: Cady Heron is a hit with The Plastics, the A-list girl clique at her new school, until she makes the mistake of falling for Aaron Samuels, the ex-boyfriend of alpha Plastic Regina George.*
I know what you're thinking "Why are you reviewing a movie that came out in 2004?" Short answer: I actually just saw a special showing in theaters. Why you might ask? Well because sometimes I like going to special showings of cult classics instead of going to a new movie (especially since nothing good is really out right now). Plus - I started watching A Million Little Things recently and decided I needed a laugh instead of cry more by going to see Five Feet Apart. 🤷
Sidebar: If you haven't seen A Million Little Things and think you might want to - ask yourself "Do I seem emotionally stable enough to watch this show?" If yes, then proceed. If no, maybe add it to your watchlist and circle back around when you are emotionally stable...just saying.
Sidebar: If you haven't seen A Million Little Things and think you might want to - ask yourself "Do I seem emotionally stable enough to watch this show?" If yes, then proceed. If no, maybe add it to your watchlist and circle back around when you are emotionally stable...just saying.
Mean Girls - it happens in every middle school, high school, college, and sometimes businesses (depending on how big they are). I generally enjoy watching this movie for some of the same reasons I LOVE The Office (U.S. version...obviously). It's because it is poking fun at a real-life situation that you wished you could have handled differently but knew that you would get into major trouble if you did anything about it. Did my school have a plastics clique? Yup. Did I dream of ways of tearing them down and becoming the most popular person in school? Yup. Did I actually do anything about the mean girls in my school? Nope - but I feel that having to deal with them built character.
I forgot how great the cast of this movie is. Lindsay Lohan and Rachel McAdams play the two main "mean girls". The favorite female duo, Tina Fey and Amy Poehler, are both in this movie. Tina Fey plays the math teacher and Amy Poehler plays Regina George's mom. Tim Meadows, the super funny Ana Gasteyer, Lacey Chabert, Jonathan Bennett, and sweet, sweet Amanda Seyfried are all also in the movie. Some of these cast members are almost unrecognizable and different than what characters they play today. It is great to see that progress.
Now, there were a couple of things I found out about this movie that I didn't know. First, this movie was a Lorne Michaels production. Lorne Michaels is the creator of SNL. That blew my mind and the movie was only 10 seconds in. Second, Tina Fey wrote the screenplay. How did I not know this?!?!
I have to say, watching this movie in theaters for the first time (because let's be real - my parents wouldn't let me go when it was first released because I was only 14) was very entertaining. Especially with the group in front of me at the movie. There were five of them - one girl and four guys. AND ALL THE GUYS WERE RESIGHTING LINES! It really made the movie that much more entertaining because of how into the movie they were.
Overall, Mean Girls is a cult classic with a great message about bullying. You can really see what a teenage girl goes through during those adolescent years and how who she surrounds herself with effects how she acts. I think I appreciated watching it more as an adult than I did watching it as a teenager and can't wait to pass it along to the younger generation because let's be real - Mean Girls will always be around.
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