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High School Satire and Shallowness Mark "Mean Girls"
Annabelle Robertson
Entertainment Critic
Release Date: April 30, 2004
Rating: PG-13 (for sexual content, language and some teen partying)
Genre: Comedy
Run Time: 93 minutes
Director: Mark Waters
Actors: Lindsay Lohan, Rachel McAdams, Tina Fey, Tim Meadows, Amy Poehler, Jonathan Bennett
Despite an opening scene that mocks home-schooled children, who are portrayed as total geeks or homophobic religious weirdos, “Mean Girls” will leave many parents feeling like traditional high schools may be the last place they want their teens.
Cady Heron (Lindsay Lohan) has just landed in suburbia, Illinois, after years of being home-schooled in Africa, where her parents did research – and which makes her different from other home-schooled kids, she points out. A blank slate when it comes to the intricacies of social relationships (another slam on home-schooling), Cady isn’t prepared for the jungle of public high school. Fortunately, Damien (Daniel Franseze) and Janis (Lizzy Caplain) take Cady under their wings. Janis is a Goth and Damien is “too gay to function,” but they explain the social hierarchy to Cady, and not without great bitterness.
