Tina Fey’s gag-filled wheeze is not enamoured with the internal politics of high school, but proves that everyone sucks the sameRead the rest of our coming of age films seriesWe are still living in the world of the Plastics: in the 14 years since Mean Girls first arrived in cinemas it has spawned a straight-to-dvd sequel disowned by all the original cast and crew, two video games, literally thousands of Buzzfeed listicles, Taylor Swift, and now a Broadway musical written by the film’s creator Tina Fey.
On the internet, Mean Girls battles only with Friends and The Simpsons to be the most referenced cultural product of all time.
Yet those shows had hundreds of episodes; Mean Girls squeezes so many perfect gags into its 97-minute running time that whenever a character speaks, it’s basically a catchphrase.
“She doesn’t even go here”; “Stop trying to make
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