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The cutting wit of Tina Fey (the first female head writer for
Saturday Night Live) brilliantly fuses pop culture and smart satire. Fey wrote
Mean Girls, in which a formerly home-schooled girl named Cady (Lindsay Lohan,
Freaky Friday) gets dropped into the sneaky, vicious world of the Plastics, three adolescent glamor-girls who dominate their public high school's social heirarchy. Cady first befriends a couple of art-punk outsiders who persuade her to infiltrate the Plastics and destroy them from within--but power corrupts, and Cady soon finds the glory of being a Plastic to be seductive.
Mean Girls joins the ranks of
Clueless,
Bring It On, and
Heathers, cunning movies that use the hormone-pressurized high school milieu to put the dark impulses of human nature--ambition, envy, lust, revenge--under a comic microscope. Fey manages to skewer everyone without forgetting the characters' hapless humanity; it's a dazzling and delightful balancing act.
--Bret Fetzer
