The scenario to the new American teen comedy, ‘Mean Girls’, directed by Mark S. Waters, is the period of transition that teenager Cady Heron (Lindsay Lohan) goes through when she starts at an average American school campus.
Cady has been brought up by her folks in the wilds of Africa and she has always been home tutored. It comes as a great shock for her to have to cope with real school life, and to try to fit in.
You can put ‘Mean Girls’ down as a safely mainstream, commercial American teenage comedy. The film’s best feature was that it had a deft hand at social commentary, in particular teenage social politics.
So… at the start we have Cady entering a new, exciting and dangerous world and at the end we have her finding peace and harmony in it. In between, and this is the stuff of the film, it is quite a ride!
Cady survives the anxiety of her parents, the pressures of different peer groups each wanting to claim her as their own, a school crush, her own immaturity and power plays, to make it to hollow ground.
Summing up, ‘Mean Girls’ was an entertaining satirical romp however a few rungs down from its more famous predecessor, ‘Clueless’.
