Mean Girls (Widescreen Edition)
by Mark Waters
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Actor: Ana Gasteyer, Jonathan Bennett, Lacey Chabert, Lindsay Lohan, Rachel McAdamsDirector: Mark Waters
Brand: Paramount
Writer: Tina Fey
Producer: Jennifer Guinier
Producer: Jill Sobel Messick
Producer: Lorne Michaels
Producer: Louise Rosner
Producer: Tony Shimkin
Writer: Rosalind Wiseman
DVD: Region Code 1
Audio: English (Subtitled); Spanish (Subtitled); English (Original Language), Dolby Digital 2.0 Surround; Spanish (Original Language)
Format: Anamorphic, Collector's Edition, Color, Dolby, DVD, NTSC, Special Edition, Subtitled, Widescreen
Picture Format: 1.85:1
Running Time: 97 minutes
DVD Release Date: 2004-09-21
Audience Rating: PG-13 (Parental Guidance Suggested)
Studio: Paramount Pictures
DVD Reviews of Mean Girls (Widescreen Edition)
DVD Review: Why can't the world be more like the movie Mean Girls?
Summary: 5 Stars
In an ideal world, or at least one similar to the one found in the movie Mean Girls, humans could get hit by a big, yellow school bus and live to talk about it. The only problem is that a) they would probably fracture their spines and would thusly have to wear a spinal halo and b) they would lose a lot of weight and would more than likely have to take a lot of pain medication. In a world similar to the one found in Mean Girls, teenage pregnancy would be something about which one could joke and laugh, as opposed to it being an actual reality (which, according to a book entitled "Sexuality NOW: Embracing Diversity" by AASECT-certified sexuality educator Janell L. Carroll, Ph.D. is a problem facing approximately 97 out of 1000 women aged 15-19 as of 1996, p.229). The same can be said for adolescent sexual behavior which often results in nasty STIs like Chlamydia (another problem which, according to Ms. Carroll, is currently troubling over 2 million people in the United States..., p.471) which by the way would be spelled "K-L-A..." not "C-H-L..." In fact, one could get away with things like kissing and making out without ever having to incur such consequences or responsibilities, which would be a good thing because child care costs a lot of money and high school students have a lot more important things to think about at this time in their lives, including SATs, keeping those grades up, graduating, getting accepted into college (if, for whatever reason, one assumes that they decide to go). Other things on which adolescents need to be focused at this stage in their lives is having as much fun as they possibly can BEFORE they reach adulthood, finding and maintaining a steady job, and, in general, having a well-balanced social life. One aspect of this film that instantly drew me in was that, while it does acknowledge the existence of such potential disasters, it failed to explore how things like teenage pregnancy and Chlamydia could totally ruin the life of adolescents who find themselves confronted by such burdens. Instead, what it does is it pokes fun at these things. Oh, and one thing that I forgot to mention was that two persons could make out in a classroom full of sixteen other students and no one would actually give a darn.
I think the message that the film tries to convey is that although things like teen pregnancy and Chlamydia are capable of happening and do happen (three-quarters of teen pregnancies each year are unintended; interestingly enough, the film's chosen STI, Chlamydia, also happens to be the most commonly diagnosed bacterial STI in the developed world, and is most common in heterosexual populations), and can be a couple of particularly undesirable experiences, it is not always the fault of the individual who experiences them, and thusly said individual should not have to be punished. In contrast, an individual does deserve to be punished for things that ARE their fault, such as deliberately failing an exam, getting themselves drunk to the point of vomiting, and, in general, being that spiteful little person which almost everyone finds annoying and particularly difficult to like. The film manages to illustrate all these ideas to perfection in the following scenes: 10 - "A Pusher", 12 - "Actual Vomit", and 15 - "Attitude Makeover." For instance, in scene #10, the main character Cady has somehow acquired the idea that by failing exams on purpose, she would win the heart of her classroom infatuation. Instead, this results in her being forced to have her parents sign an exam, which later results in her getting grounded. In scene #12, Cady gets herself drunk while waiting for her infatuation to meet her at a party. She inadvertently vomits all over his shoes and pants, which results in him walking out on her. Finally, there exists scene #15, in which viewers discover that at the some point, the queen bee had victimized everyone around her. Not only that, but the individual who finally acquires the spine to stand up to her in applauded for doing so. Perhaps the broader message in this particular instance is that spiteful little persons are not well-liked in this world and thusly deserve the comeuppance which befalls them.
Another aspect of this movie about which I can't help but feel tickled is the fact that there is very little violence to speak of. What you will not find in this film is characters getting killed, punched in the face, stabbed, or beaten, or anything like that. Okay... so there is some violence like in the scene, #14 - "Jungle Madness," where Ms. George distributes the contents of the Burn Book all over the floors of the hallway which precipitates a semi-violent upheaval amongst all of the girls whose pictures or names were found in this book. For the most part, the little bit of violence that does exist is extremely mild. (However, I do feel that the MPAA should have included "Mild Violence" on its list of reasons for which Mean Girls receives the PG-13 rating, because there is a scene where the viewer observes a character, named Gretchen Weiners, slapping her boyfriend, named Jason, on the face after the two are caught making out in the bathroom.) If one observes the events in "Jungle Madness" closely enough, then one notices that the characters are not really doing too much of anything in terms of AGGRESSIVE physical contact. While there is some physical contact, it is hardly sufficient to sustain any severe injuries. In fact, it almost looks as if the characters are sort of rough housing or playing a repetitious game of slap hands with each other. I liked this aspect of the film because the world is filled with enough violence, mass destruction, and death as it is: wars, homicides, et cetera. There is a sufficient number of television programs and movies which depict these things, and I think that in an ideal world, or at least one similar to the one found in Mean Girls, such things would be nonexistent, as death is a natural process, which does not require the assistance of mortals to expedite it against other mortals. To make a long story succinct, Mean Girls is a really good movie which deserves to be seen and re-seen by millions if not billions of viewers for many generations to come.
Description of Mean Girls (Widescreen Edition)
Raised in the African bush country by her zoologist parents, Cady Heron (Lindsay Lohan) thinks she knows about "survival of the fittest." But the law of the jungle takes on a whole new meaning when the home-schooled 15-year-old enters public high school for the first time and falls prey to the psychological warfare and unwritten social rules that teenage girls face today.The cutting wit of Tina Fey (the first female head writer for Saturday Night Live) brilliantly fuses pop culture and smart satire. Fey wrote Mean Girls, in which a formerly home-schooled girl named Cady (Lindsay Lohan) gets dropped into the sneaky, vicious world of the Plastics, three adolescent glamour-girls who dominate their public high school's social hierarchy. Cady first befriends a couple of art-punk outsiders who persuade her to infiltrate the Plastics and destroy them from within--but power corrupts, and Cady soon finds the glory of being a Plastic to be seductive. Mean Girls joins the ranks of Clueless, Bring It On, and Heathers, cunning movies that use the hormone-pressurized high school milieu to put the dark impulses of human nature--ambition, envy, lust, revenge--under a comic microscope. Fey manages to skewer everyone without forgetting the characters' hapless humanity; it's a dazzling and delightful balancing act. --Bret Fetzer
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