Mean Girls


Is this a good movie?

Well, I don't know. I'll have to get back to you. But I almost never go out to the movies. Over the past 12 months, other than the two volumes of "Kill Bill," it's hard even to think of anything I went out and saw in the theater. "Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind." "Capturing the Friedmans," last summer. Anyway, I think I'm going to see "Mean Girls." I didn't realize what it was until I read Elvis Mitchell's review in today's NYT. And I see Rotten Tomatoes has it at 82% fresh. I think it's interesting to make a comedy movie out of a nonfiction book that wasn't comic. So Tina Fey is to "Queen Bees and Wannabes: Helping Your Daughter Survive Cliques, Gossip, Boyfriends and Other Realities of Adolescence" as Woody Allen is to "Everything You Always Wanted to Know About Sex But Were Afraid to Ask."

Elvis Mitchell compares the film to "Heathers" and "Election," two of my very favorite movies. He also compares it to "Fast Times at Ridgemont High" but not to "Clueless." High school can make great movie subject matter (or terrible). Anyway, I see Elvis notes that a character in the movie is given the name Janis Ian. You'd think a guy named Elvis would say something about the fact that there really is a Janis Ian.

Oh and I remember when Janis Ian was the next big thing.... blah, blah ... I was a teenager in the 60s, etc. etc.

Posted: Fri - April 30, 2004 at 08:54 AM      

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