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Should you watch Mean Girls?

Who it’s good for, who it isn’t, and what’s in it. No ratings, no scores.

Mean Girls

Film · 2004

Cady Heron is a hit with The Plastics, the A-list girl clique at her new school, until she makes the mistake of falling for Aaron Samuels, the ex-boyfriend of alpha Plastic Regina George.

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  • A new girl who grew up in Africa
  • The Plastics
  • On Wednesdays we wear pink

Mean Girls is good for you if…

  • you like Cady studying high school like the animals she watched in Africa.
  • you like quotable lines like "on Wednesdays we wear pink".
  • you like sharp, mean high school satire.

Mean Girls is bad for you if…

  • you roll your eyes at a moral lesson. A school assembly asks the girls to stop being cruel to each other.
  • you want a teen film that ends on an open question. Mean Girls ties up every thread.

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