Mean Girls

Not since Heathers and Jawbreaker has there been such a bitingly witty and clever high school comedy. Mean Girls gives us a look inside your average high school girl world from the perspective of a new and inexperience teen.

Written by Saturday Night Live star Tina Fey, Mean Girls is a hilarious look inside the caustic experience of a high school girl clique. Lindsay Lohan stars as Cady, facing her first year of school as a junior after having spent her whole life in Africa. She finds herself having a rough time acclimating until she draws the attention of the ?Plastics,? the most feared clique in the school, led by blond and beautiful Regina George.

Rachel McAdams, whom you might remember from The Notebook, dons a blond wig and one nasty attitude for her role as ultra-bitchy Regina George. While never quite channeling the evil that was Heather Chandler, McAdams goes about her machinations with a sweet smile. While Lohan gives her protagonist a likeable and strong quality that holds the film together, McAdams really shines as the vampy queen of her high school.

Sharp dialogue seems to be Fey?s talent, and much of her biting wit from Weekend Update is infused in Mean Girls while still maintaining a positive core that keeps the film from becoming really dark. Aside from a few Final Destination-style bus accidents, the film stays pretty light.