I actually went to two “teen” movies in one week – the second was “Mean Girls,” starring Lindsay Lohan of “Freaky Friday” and “The Parent Trap” and written by Tina Fey, the first ever female head writer on Saturday Night Live and an incredibly cool person.
It was definitely entertaining, although I don’t think teen girls will find it worth sitting through. The humor is idiosyncratic and adult, and often I was the only one laughing at Fey’s slyly mocking humor. And toward the end it appears to lose its way, sort of becoming an “Afterschool Special” on self-esteem in spite of itself. Still, it’s hard not to like a movie that names its disaffected outcast teen girl character “Janis Ian.”
One thing that’s definitely noticeable to everyone in the audience is the…shall we say….development of 17-year-old Lohan. As we were leaving the theater, one of my companions said something about Lohan’s performance, and in my classic style, I said all too loudly, “And what about the giant knockers on that girl!” This outburst caused a group of teenage girls, no doubt waiting for the next show of the same movie, to regard me with disgust.
I’m sure those girls *should* regard me with disgust – just not for the reasons they think.