The latest teen flick to hit town is really nothing much to rave about; it basically has all the elements essential to make it a hit with the teen/tween crowd. You have the ugly-duckling-turns-into-swan protagonist in the form of (the pretty but not too pretty) Lindsay Lohan. You have the bitchy villainesses (Rachel McAdams, Lacey Chabert & Amanda Seyfried), the weirdo best-friends (Lizzy Caplan & Daniel Franzese) and the evrybody's-after-him-hunk (Jonathan Bennett). While the plot is formulaic and the jokes above-average witty at best, the undeniable good thing about this movie is its bonafide star -- the freckly and fresh-faced Lindsay Lohan. Surprisingly, at only seventeen, her comic timing is impeccable and she carries herself with such panache, there's simply nothing to dislike about her. Unlike her blonde nemesis Hillary Duff, Lohan is actually believable in her roles, without getting too much on the nerves.
Seriously though, this is not an advertising campaign for Lohan, with whom I am deeply in awe with ever since her star-making turn in Disney's The Parent Trap almost six years ago. It's just that I havent been this much entertained by a teenflick for ages... The last one which I actually enjoyed watching was The Princess Diaries. I'm also glad that this teen/tween movie didnt have to resort to crass and pervertic humor in order to keep the laughs acoming, depending instead on a tightly-paced story and the credibility of its actors. Although it tends to get abit draggy (and preachy) by the last halfhour, overall, Mean Girls is good, clean & mean fun which should be your money's worth. Just dont expect too much; it's still a teen flick afterall ;)
my ratings -- 3.6/5 stars!!
