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Originally Posted by jaydorn
Mean Girls isn't even a guilty pleasure. Tina Fey is a hell of a comedy writer and Tim Meadows had some great one liners in that flick.
Actually the whole film is filled with great 1 liners.
I content the Mean Girls is just a solid comedy with some top notch writing. |
I agree, Mean Girls is an excellent movie, but it had a couple flaws.
I'd argue that the movie doesn't peak at the climax like it's supposed to. The peak of the movie happens when McAdams makes the burn book public, everyone goes ape####, and they have a big intervention in the gym.
Thus the movie feels anticlimactic when Lohan wins the math thing and becomes prom queen. It also suffers because the villain is knocked out of the picture before the climax (quite literally by a bus after the intervention).
Lohan's character also has her big "self revelation" too early, when she comes clean about the 'drug burn' (for lack of a better term), thus diminishing the payoff when she has her big speech at the dance.
I still rank this movie way up there for 21st century comedies. The first hour or so is perfect.
I literally just watched it on Netflix and felt like doing some story structure breakdown.