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La Lohan I know at a distance it might seem like just another crap teen movie, and with one of the hottest young stars on the planet (namely Lindsey Lohan) leading it I can see where you might get that idea. However, Mean Girls was written by Tina Fey (head writer of Saturday Night Live and anchor of it's 'Weekend Update') and was based on a non-fiction novel about the pressures young girls inflict on their peers and how to combat that trend. The script is remarkably witty in places, with very well written characters. For once, girls are written as they truly are, I know many girls who fit into each of the types created. Rachel McAdams ('The Notebook') is good as Regina, the queen bee of the school, but I expect better acting to come from this might-be-superstar (plus she's Canadian). Amanda Seyfried (TV's 'All My Children') is great as the ridiculously stupid Karen, she gets many laughs. Lacey Chabert (TV's 'Party of Five'), however, is the stand-out of the so-called 'Plastics'. Chabert owns the role of the secret keeper who can't keep one to save her life. She inhabits the paranoia of rejection that I know I deeply went through, that they could turn on you at any moment, and she helps you to understand that really these are just scared girls trying to fit in as much as anyone else. Lindsey Lohan is the new Molly Ringwald, and it's not just the hair. Lohan has that edginess mixed with innocence that Ringwald was famous for, the difference is that Lohan is insanely beautiful whereas Ringwald could realistically be the girl next door. Lohan is great in Mean Girls, better than she was in 'Freaky Friday' and certainly better than the horrible 'Confessions of a Teenage Drama Queen'. She is on her way to owning screens worldwide (and hopefully she does it sooner than that awful troll Hilary Duff). The cast is rounded out by ex-SNLers and the janitor from 'Scrubs' as well as some excellent new talents in the goth art chick, the uber-gay dude and the Mathlete badass MC. It is good semi-clean fun, and we may be looking at a new Queen Bee of Hollywood: Miss Lindsey Lohan. email this review to a friend
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