Rachel McAdams creates a memorable High School tyrant, malicous, power mad and cruel but not entirely virtue free. Of course the key group is the titular Mean Girls themselves - Regina (Rachel McAdams), Gretchen (Lacey Chabert) and Karen (Amanda Seyfried). a terrific performance of course and she is still as cute as she was on Saturday Night Live but where she really shines is in the screenplay which sounds real enough (at least for a teen film) and has some razor sharp areas (like Coach Carr's 'lessons'). Neil Flynn (familiar as the Janitor from 'Scrubs') is even better with some great facial expressions as a father as much at sea in suburban America as his daughter. Of the adults Tim Meadows does sterling work in translating his character with relatively few lines. This girl is one of the best comic actresses of her generation and has created a fully rounded character it is difficult not to root for. Lindsay is on great form, instantly likable as Cady and believable both as a regular girl and a 'regulation hottie'. I have to admit that despite being a straight, 22 year old guy I have always had a weakness for teen films so I was looking forward to Lindsay Lohan's (who really impressed me in 'Freaky Friday' and the much underrated 'Confessions of a Teenage Drama Queen') latest.
