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List Price: $14.98 | | Label: Paramount Pictures
Salesrank: 7699
Released: September 21, 2004 |
| Our Price: $7.95 |
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MPAA Rating: PG-13 (Parental Guidance Suggested)
Media: DVD |
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Editorial Review:
Having been home-schooled and raised in the African bush, Cady is unprepared for the cut-throat politics of public school.
Genre: Feature Film-Comedy
Rating: PG13
Release Date: 9-AUG-2005
Media Type: DVD
Mean Girls (Full Screen Edition) Reviews:
A Star Vehicle for Lohan, but McAdams Steals Film... 
2009-12-15 - In many ways, "Mean Girls" retreads the familiar 'New Kid in School' genre, complete with class cliques, stereotypical characters, and stock situations, but with then-kid favorite Lindsay Lohan in the lead, and "Saturday Night Live's" Lorne Michaels and Tina Fey involved, the one-liners were fast and funny, and plot elements achieved surreal levels of inspired silliness. The end result was never believable, yet great fun...but the film had a surprise no one expected; while Lohan got the bulk of screen time, the 'Queen' of the 'Mean Girls', Rachel McAdams, was so dazzling that she blew Lohan off the screen! You were supposed to hate her, but she was infinitely more fun than bland Lindsay, and I cared far more about her character, the entire film.
That McAdams went on to screen stardom, while Lohan is still struggling to achieve more than tabloid fame is not surprising; "Mean Girls" revealed a star in the making, and is at it's best whenever she appears.
Buy it, and enjoy Rachel McAdams!
Mean Girls - Blu Ray review
2009-12-05 - Most of the other reviews have already focused on the film, so this will mostly be details on the blu-ray release. Very good movie and a more than decent 'catalog' release on Blu-Ray.
VIDEO: I found the transfer to be a bit "mixed" - some scenes really popped with color while others seemed a bit dull, even changing from cut-to-cut. With lots of bright colors in the film, I might have just been asking for too much. Very good detail in scenes, especially over the DVD release. I never found the grain to be distracting (and it's actually quite light on the grain). For a comedy, you can't expect too much though.
AUDIO: I found the audio to be fine (no issues), but really very little use of surrounds (I only noticed it during scenes with music) - the majority of the track comes out the front/center speakers. But again, it's a comedy and you can't expect too much surround sound out of it.
EXTRAS: Carried over from the DVD release, unfortunately these are all standard-definition with the exception of the trailer. Nothing new as far as bonus features go.
Overall, it's a very funny movie worth picking up if you can find it cheap (which isn't much of a problem since it's already a lower-priced catalog title). Even though it won't amaze you with it's quality (compared to other blu-rays), I found the improvement over the DVD to be enough to justify the upgrade. Overall 4/5 stars.
4,725 reviews? Well, LiLo was cute ...
2009-11-22 - This is just a tad more intelligent than the average teen high school comedy, but the writers were smarter than the audience as the main review notes, so that's not surprising. LiLo does a good job here, evidently before she descended into drug abuse. Funny, she spreads a rumor that her teacher is a drug dealer. But her co-stars equal her performance, especially the meanest blond 'Plastics" member, whoever she is. The cast is outstanding overall. Good soundtrack, as expected.
Not my favorite Lindsay movie 
2009-11-01 - I did not enjoy this movie. Why would I like this movie about mean girls when I could just go to a local school? Exactly. I'm always usually a Lindsay Lohan fan but this was not her best. I'm more of an Ali Lohan fan. I love Ali's movie "Mostly Ghostly." Better luck next time Lindsay!
Sorry, Couldn't Get Into It 
2009-07-14 - Maybe it's just because I couldn't believe the Lindsay Lohan would be a genius at senior calculus. The girls are boring and I couldn't make myself care about their teacher or principle.
So Lohan has too groups of friends she's torn between. One is a bunch of girls who are beautiful but immoral. The other is a gay guy and ugly girl with a heart of gold. How many times have we seen this exact same story in American movies and TV shows? And then comes the predictable scene where a person in the loser group makes the friend something nice but has their heart broken before presenting it.
Boring, predictable and barely ever funny.
