The film Mean Girls, directed by Mark Waters, written by Rosalind Wiseman and Tina Fey and starring Lindsey Lohan as a lost teenager, is a film hilarious about Cady Heron's new life. After moving from Africa where she had previously lived and been home-schooled for much of her teenage life, Cady is thrust into a new culture, city, and school when her parents decide to return to the United States. In this laugh-out-loud comedy, the audience giggles as Cady gets used to meeting different cliques, falling in love with the most popular boy in school and becoming Queen B, while making a few enemies along the way. As in most comedies, though, Cady eventually establishes her true identity. Although Mean Girls is usually classified as unrealistic and overly dramatic and the situations are much more adult than their age, the film successfully portrays high school stereotypes and friendships. Mean Girls is obviously a bit too dramatic, thus creating an atmosphere of unrealistic situations. Throughout the film, comedy is used to capture the viewers' attention, which reinforces the argument that Mean Girls is unrealistic in some aspects. For example, there is an exaggerated presence when the girls present all the cliques. These groups are shown as very exaggerated and theatrical. Each group presented is strictly defined by common stereotypes: the Goths are dressed completely in black and resemble vampires, while the popular girls are dressed in pink skirts and high heels and "all wore fashionable clothes every day, except -one weekly day of sweatpants,” writes Shannon Armes. Groups interact in the most cliché ways, Geeks only hang out with other Geeks, Goths... middle of paper... things are over as audiences typically anticipate happy endings in the film industry. So while the film may be considered unlikely and theatrical and some situations are above the character's age, Mean Girls - through accurate depictions of stereotypes and friendships - is close enough to being a genuine idea of ​​what life can really be like. high school. for today's teenagers.Works CitedArmes, Shannon M. "Mean Girls." Applied Social Psychology (ASP). Mobile Type, February 14, 2012. Web. April 20, 2014. Lawrenson, Edward. "Bad girls." Sight and Sound 07 2004: 56. ProQuest. Network. April 24, 2014. Bad girls. Dir. Marco Acque. Perf. Lindsey Lohan, Jonathan Bennett and Rachel McAdams. Paramount Pictures, 2004. DVD.Resnick, David. “Life in an Unjust Community: A Hollywood View of High School Moral Life.” Journal of Moral Education 37.1 (2008): 99-113. Press.