Current teen queen Lindsay Lohan continues her assault on the cinematic citadel with this refreshingly snappy, if not quite perfect, satire on high school life. The suitably high-concept plot finds the red-haired starlet playing 15-year-old Cady, a perfectly normal teenager if you don't count the fact that she's spent all her life being schooled at home in the African bush with her zoologist parents. So when her family move back to the U.S., the poor lass is understandably nervous about her first day at high-school where she soon finds friends in two fellow outcasts and falls for the school hunk. The problem? He's the ex of the most popular - and meanest - girl in the school, Regina George. The solution? A dastardly covert operation where Cady infiltrates Regina's gang and brings her down from within. Based on \"Queen Bees and Wannabes,\" a best-selling novel about high-school hierarchy and scripted by \"Saturday Night Live\" saviour Tina Fey, \"Mean Girls\" is a teen comedy that's not just for adolescents. A classy combo of \"Heathers\" and \"Clueless\" refashioned for the noughties, it boasts an edgy script and genuinely comic performances from Lohan, Fey and other SNL regulars that easily push this effort past many of its teen flick predecessors. It's a shame then that the movie ducks out at the last minute with a soggy and sentimental ending that real adolescents will find hopelessly optimistic. Fun but not fantastic. <\/p>\n <\/div>\n\n <\/div>\n<\/div>","fnc":"googleTrackerHelper.doTrackPage( '\/'Mean-Girls-film_options~18788'\/Reviews\/ViewAll\/1' );"}