Mean Girls Movie Analysis

"Mean Girls", based on the book "Queen Bees and Wannabes" written by Rosalind Wiseman, was produced by Paramount Pictures in 2004. (Walters 2004, Wiseman 2002) The leading star, 15 year-old Cady Heron (Lindsey Lohan), recently moved to the suburbs of Illinois after being home schooled in Africa by her zoologist parents. During her first day of public high school, Cady befriends two teenager outcasts, Janice Ian (Lizzy Caplan) and Damian (Daniel Franzese). They supply Cady with a map of North Shore High School in order to educate her to the 21 different cliques within the school. Even more, warning Cady to stay away from the "worst people you will ever meet", The Plastics. Which was comprised of three girls: Gretchen Wieners, a girl who's rich because her father invented toaster strudel; Karen Smith, the "dumbest girl you will ever meet"; and Regina George, "queen bee" the unofficial leader and the meanest one. The Plastics take an interest in Cady and invite her to join them, Cady is very unsure of this. She discusses this with Janice and Damian and they convince

Mean Girls is a movie about a girl who moves to the United States from Africa and attends her first real high school, as she had been homeschooled throughout her life. The movie relays the social struggles faced by high school students. This movie, however, is no boring documentary about the life of a high

Mean Girls is a comedy directed by Mark Waters and written by Tina Fey. Cady Heron is the new girl in town who moved from Africa. She instantly makes friends with two teenagers that are nice (Damian and Janis) whom, are considered in the "out crowd." After she meets the Plastics (three rude and popular girls), consisting of Regina the leader, Gretchen (Regina’s follower), Karen is considering one of the dumbest people you will meet. They let her in their group, where Cady falls for Regina’s ex-boyfriend, Aaron Samuels. When Regina finds this out, she wants revenge. However, Cady, Janis and Damian plan together to get back at Regina and take her down from the head plastic. While planning revenge, Cady

Mean Girls (2004) follows the journey of sixteen year old Cady (Lindsay Lohan) in her first year at a public school in suburban America - a stark contrast to the previous twelve years of her life: being homeschooled in Africa. Cady moves to Evanston, Illinois and soon finds herself in with 'The Plastics ', the "teen royalty" of Northshore High School, led by the 'Queen Bee ', Regina George (Rachel McAdams).

Mean girls is a movie about a teenage girl going into public school as a junior in high school for the first time, after being homeschooled for her entire life up until. She is discovering herself and where she wants to fit in with her peers. She is pulled many times to the middle of ongoing rivalries and trying to make the decision as to what side she wants to take in the rivalry and what peer group she wants to be part of, the groups that interest her and the groups she is already knowledgeable about. It is hard for her being that public school in America is completely different than home schooling in Africa, she has to learn and adapt to new customs, new pressures, and new acceptance by others. I will be discussing the Influences on Identify Formation that is reflected in this movie.

The Culture in Mean girls compared to today’s modern culture are pretty much similar. In Mean girls they go to a public school where there’s a lot of various groups of people with different beliefs and values that they follow. Although at North Shore High, the main value of most of the students is popularity and what is your status on the social ladder. Even though in modern high schools popularity come in a factor but is not really a mainstream. I don’t think that is truly desirable in a lot of schools. When the fight broke up in North Shore High between all the junior girls, compares to modern high school if something like that happened, I don’t think that it would’ve been gotten crazy like in the movie nor handled calmly. I’m pretty sure that there would be serious consequences that the students would

The movie Mean Girls is rated PG-13. It was published in 2004 and is a teen and comedy film. Mean Girls is about a teenage girl named Cady who was homeschooled in Africa and recently moves to Illinois. She decides to go to highschool and becomes a part of a group of girls called the “mean girls”. They are a popular group who tend to fit their name.

The film Mean Girls uses aspects of tragedy and comedy to create a stronger and more interesting plot line, and to highlight changes in the main character.

Do you desire an intelligent teen comedy with witty dialogue? Do you reminisce on being young without the burden of responsibilities? Do you enjoy revenge stories? Mean Girls is the answer for such a particular audience.

Mean girls is a very influential movie in America and the majority of people have either watched it or know what it entails. Many people see this movie as a funny satirical and exaggerated take on American high school but in reality it has a much deeper meaning to it. The movie revolves around a transfer student ,Cady, who had grown up in Africa and was home schooled her entire life. It shows her pretending to be friends with the popular group “The Plastics” so that she can find out their secrets and report back to her other, less popular friends. However, in the end she becomes sucked into the group and starts to treat everyone else in the same horrible ways The Plastics do.

Mark Water’s teen comedy film Mean girls is a rather exaggerated film eluding to the portrayal of adolescent behavior is modern society, particularly focusing on how female high school social cliques work and the effect that it has on other girls with characters such as Regina George, Cady Heron, Gretchen Wieners, Aaron Samuels, and Janis Ian. Mean Girls is an

Many classic movies are known for having cult following. High School films are saturated in the market and your movie has to be something unique to stand out amongst the others. Mean girls is a superb movie and has gained a huge following for three reasons. It is a comedy film based on a book called Queen Bees and Wannabees which is about girl cliques. Written by Tina Fey, it has some SNL members in the film such as Amy Poehler.

Almost every American teenager and early twenties adult has seen these two classic films: John Tucker Must Die (2006) and Mean Girls (2004). Although these films have different genres they are very similar. Betty Thomas’s romance John Tucker Must Die and Mark Water’s comedy Mean Girls can be compared and contrasted according to the following: characters, conflict, and theme.

It combines comedy to the situations a mother has to go through with the use of hyperbole when Mila has a bad day is shown when her dog gets injured, spaghetti is thrown in the air, and the sarcasm of finding a babysitter. This trailer attracts adults that are mothers which later transitions into younger adults. It shifts from audience with the comical life events of the character and her group of friends. Mila’s alliance shift into becoming partiers and somewhat unsafe- drinking with reckless driving. Towards the middle of this trailer the film attracts younger adults with the partying standards commonly shown in “college”. If anyone were to see the film towards the end they would think it’s about college partying. The song is very popular and lures in the younger audience by combining something they relate to, the party atmosphere (and says “hey mama”). The juxtaposition of the song saying “hey mama” correlates with the dialogues theme between mothers. It portrays the irony of the two types of mothers with its satirical humor. This film attracts a wild range of audience due to its comedy. The openness of this films also attracts those within the GLBT community. This trailer starts out with a very realistic scene that then in captions says “Every mom”. Afterwards, because of the change in settings, it is towards young females aged 18 to 30 due to it comical and realistic

Norbury asks the entire senior class to raise their hand if they have ever been victimized by Regina George and nearly every single hand was raised. She does whatever she wants and thinks that everyone admires her. This is mostly because of the way her mom acts towards her and her friends. Regina's mom tries to be one of the teenage girls and gossip along with the "plastics." She even allows her daughter to drink underage. Regina's mom also allows the younger daughter to watch nudity on the television. Her care free, laid back parenting style plays a huge roll on how Regina acts towards her peers. In addition, Cady's parents are very strict. The first sign of this is in the beginning when they are very concerned with sending her to a public high school. After being exposed to the "plastics" and how they act, Cady begins to drink and participate in illegal activity nearly every weekend. Cady finds her wrong doings as an escape from her parents. This is because her parents are too strict and are constantly nagging her. Their uptight, strict parenting style is what leads to Cady doing unacceptable activities.