my profile | my password | search | faq & rules | forum home

» Film-Tech Forum ARCHIVE   » Community   » Film Handlers' Movie Reviews   » Mean Girls

Author Topic: Mean Girls Richard Greco Phenomenal Film Handler Posts: 1180 From: Plant City, FL Registered: Nov 2003 posted 04-30-2004 12:25 AM                     Hrmm...where to start. This was your typical teenage revenge flick and the end was typical of many movies like it. I must say that I love Christmas now even more after seeing this film. Many scenes I was trying to pick my jaw up off the floor when Lindsay Lohan and Lacey Chabert were on screen. Lindsay did an excellent job in this and the ohers did too. I enjoyed many scenes. POSSIBLE SPOILER The gay guy was absolutely hilarious!! There are many people from SNL in this film. Overall, The acting was great for the type of film it is The sound mix was decent. And I built it perfectly!!!! Lindsay Lohan Lacey Chabert I will say that I am looking forward to seeing how Rachel McAdams does in "The Notebook" since she has only done comedys so far. I give Mean Girls a 3/5  |  IP: Logged Erika McCarty Film Handler Posts: 21 From: McKinney, TX/New Haven, CT Registered: Nov 2003 posted 04-30-2004 04:27 PM                     Typically I don't buy into/enjoy the "teen set" films...but Mean Girls definitely had a satirical and witty edge that set it above most. I genuinely laughed out loud at parts; this film makes fun of teen-age girls well and the Saturday Night Live influence was definitely noticeable. Mean Girls is good for what it is and not a total waste of time if you're in the mood for some comedy. On a side note , the rating of this film is definitely deserved. Lindsay Lohan somewhat breaks out of her typical candy-coated role, there's plenty of language etc... in the film. Definitely not for the pre-teen audience she often targets. Overall:  |  IP: Logged Mike Olpin Chop Chop! Posts: 1852 From: Dallas, TX Registered: Jan 2002 posted 05-02-2004 03:50 PM                     Great teen movie. The SNL influence stems deeper than just a few of the cast members. This film also produced in part by Lorne Micheals.  |  IP: Logged Jennifer Pan THE JEN! Posts: 1219 From: Denver, Colorado Registered: Nov 2003 posted 05-03-2004 02:13 AM                        I actually really liked this movie. I expected so much less from this. But I gained so much more laughs:) Enjoyable and I wouldn't mind watching it a couple of more times. All of the characters did pretty well, and it wasn't too cheesy. 4/5  |  IP: Logged Phil Hill I love my cootie bug Posts: 7595 From: Hollywood, CA USA Registered: Mar 2000 posted 05-03-2004 03:50 AM                  I agree with the Jen! I liked it. >>> Phil  |  IP: Logged Pravin Ratnam Jedi Master Film Handler Posts: 844 From: Atlanta, GA,USA Registered: Sep 2002 posted 05-16-2004 02:55 AM                     HIllary Duff, Lindsay Lohan. Heard these two are at war. Never saw any stuff from either of these girls. All I saw were Hillary Duff's annoying videos. I think Hillary's annoying presence made me prejudge Lohan too. After watching Mean Girls, all I can say is I hope the Duff camp loses in whatever wars they are engaging in. A very solid entertaining movie even if it isn't as good as Heathers. It softens up a bit too much towards the end. But it is more than video rental worthy. Good performances by all. The movie moves fairly briskly. Tina Fey does a better job writing and acting here than she does on SNL. Maybe she should spare us her less than stellar tenure on SNL and concentrate more on movies.  |  IP: Logged Mike Perju Film Handler Posts: 90 From: Toronto, Canada Registered: Nov 2002 posted 05-18-2004 09:33 PM                     The great thing about this film is that it is the most accurate depiction of schools today I have ever seen. Also, Pravin, there are people who woud disagree that Ms. Lohan should "win". I know a few extras who worked on Confessions of a Teenage Drama Queen, and they were telling me stories of how Ms. Lohan is a real bitch who enjoys talking down on people. Even director Sara Sugarman used to chant "bring out the bitch, bring out the bitch" when Ms. Lohan was needed on set... :-) Ms. Lohan gave her costars such a hard time, many of them turned down working on Mean Girls when the production shot some scenes here in Toronto.  |  IP: Logged Evans A Criswell Phenomenal Film Handler Posts: 1579 From: Huntsville, AL, USA Registered: Mar 2000 posted 05-22-2004 10:45 PM                        I saw this tonight at Regal Madison Square 12 here in Huntsville, AL and enjoyed it, and felt that although many details were exaggerated, there's a lot of truth to the depiction of the way school-age girls interact. Groups of teenage girls have extremely complex ways of interacting, and there is a lot of truth to the ways they find to manipulate each other. All of them aren't that bad, of course. I think everyone has a desire to manipulate others to a degree. I'll bet most of you can think back to your high school years and think of people that could fit the roles played by many people in this movie.  |  IP: Logged Taylor Hogue Film Handler Posts: 2 From: Edmond, OK, USA Registered: Jul 2004 posted 07-21-2004 11:27 PM                     I think you ill be hard pressed to find many teenage girls that do not fit into one of the characters in the movie. The only thing they MAY have lacked were the floaters. Those girls that can hang out with everyone, but really belong to no particular group (I don't consider Lohan to fall into this category because she socially denied Janis). True enough though, the ending was rather unbelievable. Nothing would have changed Regina in the end, in the real world. I think it was more obviously realistic to those on the receiving end of vicious high school attacks. Anyway, great movie!! I think everyone should watch it!  |  IP: Logged

All times are Central (GMT -6:00)

Printer-friendly view of this topic

Hop To: Select a Forum: Category: Operations -------------------- Digital Cinema Forum Film Handlers' Forum Large Format Forum Ground Level Feature Info, Trailer Attachments & REAL Credit Offsets Category: Community -------------------- Film-Yak Film Handlers' Movie Reviews The Afterlife Bob Maar's Joke-A-Thon Category: Classified -------------------- Equipment and Supplies Wanted/For Sale Help Wanted/Seeking Employment Category: System -------------------- Software Beta Testing Forum

The Film-Tech Forums are designed for various members related to the cinema industry to express their opinions, viewpoints and testimonials on various products, services and events based upon speculation, personal knowledge and factual information through use, therefore all views represented here allow no liability upon the publishers of this web site and the owners of said views assume no liability for any ill will resulting from these postings. The posts made here are for educational as well as entertainment purposes and as such anyone viewing this portion of the website must accept these views as statements of the author of that opinion and agrees to release the authors from any and all liability.