Mean Girls

Tina Fey's "Mean Girls" follows a high-school junior Cady on her first day of public school. Cady has grown up being home-schooled in Africa. She quickly makes two friends, Janis and Damian. Because Cady knows nothing of American teenage culture, she seemed to be the perfect candidate to be taken under the wing of the "popular girls," or the "plastics" as described in this film. Because Janis hates the group's queen bee, Regina, she encourages Cady into becoming a spy. Cady along with Janis and Damian form a plan to ruin Regina's reputation by robbing her of her slim body, attractive boyfriend, and loyal followers. In doing so, Cady loses sight of the person she was before entering public high school. 

"Mean Girls" portrays the social clique system that is present in most high school environments, and how teenagers find ways to cope with it. It depicts how our culture is incapable of controlling inborn instincts of adolescent females to gossip, spread rumors, and threaten their closest friends in order is rise to the next social level.

A major theme of the movie is the culture shock Cady experiences after leaving her sheltered lifestyle for the corrupted modern world. It also tries to make a statement about negatively treating peers based on appearance or social standing. As well as it presents a major goal of a culture-bound high school environment, which is the instinct to form exclusive and judgmental groups, in hope to increase one's social status. 

This movie illustrates the nature of evil and redemption by exposing throughout the majority of the film each of the main characters flaws. Evil tendencies were among all of them, not just one particular person. It demonstrated that the kingdom of God is messy, but redeemable through the ridiculously caddy and mean girls, who in the end become friendly and welcoming. 

"Mean Girls" is a tremendously entertaining movie with plenty of humorous one-liners that represent how modern-day adolescence is, especially for females.