i lvoe this movie, but it would be awkward to watch it with family.
Mean Girls
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Common Sense says
Mature but often-hilarious teen comedy.
Themes in this movie include: friendship, growing up, peer pressure
updated 10.02.09
Why We Rated This 
for Ages 14 and Up
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What Parents Need to Know
This review of Mean Girls was written by Nell Minow
Parents need to know this movie has some mature material for a PG-13, including crude humor, sexual references, underage drinking, and comic violence. There is a prank involving a pregnancy test. Cady allows her home to be taken over by partying teens, gets drunk, and throws up. A child watches "Girls Gone Wild" and imitates it. A girl refers to herself as "half a virgin" and there is a joke about girl-girl kissing. A strength of the movie is its positive portrayal of diverse characters, including disabled, gay, and minority students.
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- Families can talk about how the elements that determine status for teenagers are different from those that determine status in the adult world, at work, and with friends and family.
- Use this movie to begin a discussion about the way that the girls they know treat each other, and what they can do to encourage them to be kinder and more supportive.
- Ask kids if they know any "mean girls." How do they deal with them?
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What’s the Story?
Queen Bees and Wannabes, a non-fiction book by Rosalind Wiseman about alpha girls and the impact they have on everyone else, has been adapted by Saturday Night Live head writer (and Weekend Update anchor) Tina Fey into a movie about a girl who takes on a ruling clique. Previously homeschooled by her zoologist parents while living in Africa, Cady (Lindsay Lohan) moves to Evanston, Illinois and attends high school. Cady finds herself having a hard time understanding the social norms in the school, and is drawn to the "the Plastics," the most popular clique in the school.
Is It Any Good?
Screenwriter Tina Fey, who appears as a sympathetic teacher, has a good sense of how girls like Regina operate to establish their domination, appearing to be sweet and supportive but in reality being competitive, duplicitous and manipulative, and always surrounding themselves with people who will add to their power and not challenge them. And Fey's superb sense of comedy gives the script has some biting humor. Her Saturday Night Live colleagues lend support to the cast, with Tim Meadows as the school principal, Ana Gasteyer as Cady's mother, and Amy Poehler superb as Regina's mother, who insists, "I'm not like a regular mom; I'm a cool mom!"
There is much that is fresh and sharp in this movie. But it has an uncertain hold on its plot and ends up pulling some of its punches and throwing in teen comedy clichés we have seen endlessly in dozens of movies that all blur together.
Movie Details
Studio: Paramount Pictures, Director: Mark Waters
Run time: 95 minutes
Theatrical release: 4/30/2004, DVD release: 9/21/2004
MPAA Rating: PG-13 for Sexual content, language and some teen partying
Run time: 95 minutes
Theatrical release: 4/30/2004, DVD release: 9/21/2004
MPAA Rating: PG-13 for Sexual content, language and some teen partying
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I rate this title iffy for age 13 and give it
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- Inappropriate sexual content
- Inappropriate language
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- Good role models
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I rate this title iffy for age 10 and give it
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- Negative role models
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I rate this title on for age 12 and give it
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- Good role models
Hahahaha Hilarious!
This is the funniest ever! My sister and I quote it all the time, and we are not the only ones! Everyone loves this movie! The mean girls are complete bimbos (*cough* Karen! *cough*) and extremely destructive (*cough* Regina! *cough*) but in the end they become nice due to everything that happens. It's not educational but in the way of cliques it is! I was also laughing through this whole movie; well done! The movie business should do something as funny and unforgettable as this one!!
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I rate this title iffy for age 10 and give it
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- Inappropriate sexual content
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BEST TEEN MOVIE EVER!!!
One of the best teen movies in the universe! Most teen movies are usually just plain bad, but this movie is a laugh, cool, and very good!!
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I rate this title on for age 13 and give it
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- Inappropriate sexual content
- Inappropriate language
- Negative role models
I LOVE this movie!! This movie is very funny and I think any tween or teen would like this movie.
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I rate this title on for age 13 and give it
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- Inappropriate sexual content
- Inappropriate language
- Negative role models
I LOVE this movie!! This movie is very funny and I think any tween or teen would like this movie.
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I rate this title on for age 13 and give it
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- Negative role models
Good Movie
I think it was a funny movie.. Idk what everybody else thinks but this is something that younger teens like... and they dont like to be treated like a baby and have to watch G rated films.
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I rate this title on for age 10 and give it
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- Inappropriate sexual content
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I rate this title on for age 10 and give it
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- Inappropriate sexual content
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hate it
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I rate this title iffy for age 10 and give it
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- Inappropriate sexual content
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Mean girls are good!
the language isn't that bad, they use words like s-ut, b--ch, h-o, wh-re, ska-k, and f-gly. It is very funny though.
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I rate this title on for age 10 and give it
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mean girls- okay?
okay.
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I rate this title iffy for age 13 and give it
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- Inappropriate sexual content
- Inappropriate language
- Drinking, smoking, or drug use
- Negative role models
Perfect for elder teens.
A good movie! A lot of dirty dancing and sexual references.
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I rate this title on for age 12 and give it
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- Drinking, smoking, or drug use
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- Good role models
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I rate this title iffy for age 10 and give it
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- Inappropriate sexual content
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hilarious
this movie is soo funny but definatley not appropriate for age 8 and under
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I rate this title on for age 11 and give it
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- Good role models
hilarous
i love this movie but they say btch a lot but your kid probly hears it at school anyway
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I rate this title iffy for age 14 and give it
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- Inappropriate sexual content
- Inappropriate language
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this movie is very funny with a little innopropriate parts.
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I rate this title on for age 15 and give it
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- Inappropriate sexual content
Great Movie!
This was an awesome movie! Definitely one of my favorites! Although I was shocked at the references they had, I still thought it was a very good movie.
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I rate this title on for age 13 and give it
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- Inappropriate sexual content
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HE HE
I LOVED THIS MOVIE! Perfect chick flick to watch with some girlfriends at a slumber PART-A! The worst thing about it is the language they use s***, B****, and more, you see people making out, some times only in their underwear, good message at the end, funny, but for most of the movie the messages and role models are bad. But it's a movie people, no one watches a movie for good role models and stuff, they watch it for entertainment, which this movie provides plenty of! HA HA. Loved it!
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I rate this title on for age 11 and give it
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lovez it
OMG I LOVE THIS MOVIE ITS THE BEST EVERRR. something to get the girls toghter and watch or your mum. a few offensive refrences and a bit of kissing and sex.
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| 75% | of parents say the sexual behavior isn't age appropriate |
| 50% | of parents don't feel there are good role models |
| 50% | of parents say it has language their kids can't use |
| 50% | of parents say there's too much drinking, drugs, or smoking |
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