(rated PG13)
Lindsay Lohan plays Cady, a fish out of water home-schooled girl who’s never attended a classroom until now, her high school year. Worse still, she thinks the hottest band is still Spice Girls since she spent several years in Africa with her parents. But that’s about to change when popular “plastic girls” leader Regina (Rachel McAdams) takes Cady into their cruel, cat-scratching, insecure, Fendi wearing clique. Of course with lacking social skills, Cady doesn’t realize that going after Regina’s ex boyfriend Aaron (Jonathan Bennett) is taboo, which in turn prompts all kinds of nasty and low level tactics. Saturday Night Live’s Emmy winning Tina Fey plays Cady’s sassy math teacher, but more impressive is that this SNL alumni wrote this story that houses a strong message. If teens can form a sisterhood in no more cliques, gossips and name calling each other a ‘ho’, it may just stop boys from making such sexual demands once and for all. Kind of like a parent’s godsend to all adolescent girls, this movie (based on the book “Queen Bees and Wannabes)” does for teens, what the book “Reviving Ophelia” did for their mothers. Thank you Tina Fey!
