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Mean Girls : 1 of 5
2.18.2005 11:14 PM \| Link	I added this DVD to my Netflix queue just because I like to keep up on the latest with the Disney slave girls (such a great term that I stole from Miceland!), even though this Lindsey Lohan movie wasn't a Disney production. I'm glad Disney had nothing to do with it, since it was pretty much terrible. I can get into the typical teen high school movie as much as anyone, since I enjoy escaping into a younger world, and they usually have a good set of pop songs on the soundtrack. Mean Girls was so lame that I didn't even enjoy the music! The plot involves Lindsey kind of going undercover with the fashion queens clique (the "plastics"), but then she becomes one herself, turns her back on her real friends, and then it all turns around at the end. There's not a single moment that really made me care about any of these characters, and there's little transformation that takes place even after the moral has been told. I noticed this was a Lorne Michaels production, and he managed to use around five different Saturday Night Live cast members to fill out the plot, and they all did an OK job with minimal screen time. I guess it's just the story and tone of the movie that really put me off (and any movie with narration practically screams "We couldn't get the plot to gel, so we're going to force it to flow with stupid voiceovers, OK?"). Maybe Lindsey will have better luck in the Love Bug remake! Labels: dvds


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