Mean Girls

I've seen this movie compared with Heathers with good reason. Both involve the main character and her relationship with the school's super-elite clique of backstabbing girls. Heathers takes a dark humorous, almost apocalyptic, look at the topic while Mean Girls takes a milder, more mundane approach. As a result, Heathers is more edgy and Mean Girls is a little more forgiving of the various transgressions characters make. Mean Girls also paints with a broader brush, implicating many more people in the activities and imitation of the core clique than Heathers.

That said, I laughed fairly often during Mean Girls, but not always at the main story. The supporting characters, including Tim Meadows as the principal Mr. Duvall and a supremely confident, rapping math geek named Kevin Gnapoor, are highly amusing without detracting from the main focus of the film. Some elements of the main story are predictable, but there are enough original ideas and humor sprinkled throughout the movie to keep my interest going.

I don’t think the movie is quite as uproariously funny as Heathers, but it's reasonably solid and worth the time spent watching it (checked out for free at the library, so the only cost to me was time). I'd give it a B.