dvd on tap: Mean Girls [Mark Waters]

As the title and poster suggests, this is another in a long list of high school teenage films where you get your usual angst strained in both rose- and dour-colored glasses, stirred with drama and comedy. And just when you think you can ignore it, it works. Apparently, people who didn't find Confessions of a Teenage Drama Queen that funny were willing to give Lindsey Lohan a second chance in the teen comedy department. Well, of course it should, because this one was in the hands of the SNL people, who know a thing or two about making you laugh. Home-school transferee Cady Heron (Lohan) lands in an Illinois high school were she's immediately clay in the hands of the campus cliques - particularly the glamourous alpha Barbie bitche-, er ... chicks collectively referred to as 'The Plastics' (Rachel McAdams, Lacey Chabert and Amanda Seyfried). Its quite a fun ride watching the shallowness and backstabbing prevalent in any high school environment - but the karma isn't dialled down either. SNL veterans Tina Fey (she wrote the screenplay too) and Tim Meadows pitch in as teachers (if they were the main characters, this would be one long sketch *lol*). Director Waters seems ideally suited to the project, after directing Lohan in the remake hit Freaky Friday.


The girls don't mind if you're nice, but they prefer you naughty.