Mean Girls

While not the best movie I’ve seen, I watched it with a constant smile on my face mixed with frequent laughter.

Much like NYAD, this is a film about women that men will enjoy. It is filled with some great music and dancing that holds your attention around a relatively simple plot.

Written by Tina Fey who also appears as a math teacher, the film tells the story of Cady Heron (Angourie Rice), who returns to public high school after being homeschooled by her research mother (Jenna Fischer) in Kenya. She soon learns that lions were safer in Africa than classmates.

Befriended by two students (Auli’I Cravalho and Damian Hubbard in wonderful roles), she tries to join a group known as the Plastics. Led by the dominatingly arrogant Regina, played with hateful style by Reneé Rapp, all juvenile hell breaks loose when Cady is attracted to math classmate Aaron Samuels (Chrstopher Briney), Regina’s ex-boyfriend.

With several fine songs, that basically describes a story involving nasty high school kids who act as if they are juveniles. Wait a minute, they are!

As noted, most of you, like me, will find the film entertaining. See it soon, as I don’t suspect a high school musical will last long in the theaters.

Then again, maybe I’m wrong. Afterall, February is a dead zone for most good movies. It is Hollywood’s way of making a few bucks on films that would never have survived the October through December Oscar season.