I watched this many times, and it took someone to point this out to me. Regina heard Janice say she was Lebanese but thought she said lesbian. Totally went over my head and its hilarious.
I feel like the reason this movie is so popular (besides being hilarious) is that, while being clearly hyperbolic, it is relatable to so many people. High school sucks because no one knows what they're doing or who they are and so they take it out on everyone else. This movie captures that better than any other imo.
That’s interesting to me because I think these movies capture the feeling of North American high school even if it’s exaggerated but if you live elsewhere, it’s not all that relatable. Always enjoyed this movie and other American high school movies, it just seemed like a worlds away from what I experienced despite still being a millennial, just one on the other side of the world.
you are wrong about what that means, its not about trying to be cool is about trying to manipulate people to make something happen when is not organic.
The severity of cliques at least in my highschool sort of disappeared in the mid to late 2000s when it became cool to be a nerd and nerd entertainment blew up. The boundaries between scenes definitely blurred quite a bit. If you two haven't seen the movie remake of 21 Jump Street, it addresses this rapid change, and it was also hilarious
@@cruzinbosco Well I'd say nerd shit started really blowing up with popularity of MCU. But first steps were paved by earlier superhero movies (xmen, spidermen, maybe even batman begins) and LOTR becoming a megahit. So by 2008-2010 being a nerd became cool.
Class of 05 here. 100% right. High school was super clique heavy, but the actual separation of floating between groups wasn't so hardcore. You could be a burnout band geek. Or skater cheerleader.
I graduated in 1999, Nerds like me were ignored but as the internet became more common and Fantasy and Sci-fi entertainment gained popularity so did me and my friends. By 2005, me and my “nerd” friends got good jobs, gym memberships, and relationship experience we became the “cool” adults.
basically, it depends on the time/school i was in high school 05-09 and it had clique's but it wasn't as severe when my mom went to school it was way worse i personally did my own thing and hung out with a lot of different people but i may have gotten away with it easier than most because i didn't have to do much to be seen a cool unlike some of my other friends
When Simone said it was Rachel McAdams break out role I had to go find release dates of Mean Girls (April 30) and The notebook (August 27) as they came out the same year. It is for me such an impressive display of acting capacity to play two so different roles in two so different kind of movies in the same year :) And no George, it is not weird that you find Regina kinda hot, it would be if you didn't, I mean, Rachel is gorgeous!
On that last point, I'd say that's kinda the point of the movie. All of the Mean Girls are very pretty, but obviously they're just... MEAN. You can think Regina is hot, but still say that her personality leaves a lot to be desired.
Rachel McAdams is a smoke show for sure. Didn't really like her as much in this movie though... not a fan of the blonde hair or the pulled-back ponytail looks back then. Long (down to their butt, if possible), dark hair is the best.
I think you guys would enjoy Easy A. It was one of Emma Stone’s first roles and it has similar themes to Clueless and Mean Girls. It is very loosely based on the Scarlet Letter and very funny.
@@goldenageofdinosaurs7192 Yeah and it´s not even been much reacted to at all yet. If you search for it on RUclips, I think there might be 3 or 4 channels at max! TOTAL! Who reacted to it. And I think they were big channels. As I said, I just freaking love that movie. But I also love Jennifer´s body, always a fun reaction to watch, like Trin Lovell or Dylan Is In Trouble...
@@Dreadpoolz3977 I’d like to see ‘em check out “Heathers”, the ultimate mean girls original. You thought these girls were mean??? You ain’t seen nuttin yet
Jennifer's Body is a criminally underrated movie. It's my go-to answer when someone asks what movie I genuinely like that has a shit rating on IMDB. On the topic of actually good teen horror: Ginger Snaps. It's Canadian, too!
@@Madbandit77 Fortunately. The writer said it was marketed all wrong. I imagine it being a letdown if you expect a horror movie, or worse yet, "Twilight for boys" like Roger Ebert said.
George asked if it was weird that he found Regina George very attractive. Like...duh, dude, no, that's 1) part of the point of Regina's character 2) she's played by Rachel freakin McAdams.
I had to laugh when George said "Some girls just want to watch the World burn" because in Mean Girls the musical, the song for that over of the musical (Regina making copies of the burn book and spreading them) is called "World burn" and is one of my favourite songs of the musical.
Early 2000s for me and at my school they were called "groups" but when 9th and or 10th grade camps were happening, the principal actually assured us all that we would stick in our groups and wouldn't be split apart.
12:55-13:05 I think this is my favorite sequence of the film. Really set of clever transitions from the talent show, to her insane Brutus speech, to her spilling everything in the bathroom; it brings you forward in time all the while keeping us on her face as her mental state cracks from the pressure. That along with Lacey's performance really makes this a hilarious sequence that all informs us on character. Good shit. I don't remember Lacey doing much of note after this, unlike a lot of the others in this film. Its a shame because she really gave a great comedic performance.
The one thing they mis-represented most about American High Schools is that IRL there are only a few students attending there who are in their late 20's
When George said "it's okay since they're all in at least their 20s" I laughed because there was actually a disturbing amount of commentary around when Lindsay Lohan was turning 18 at that time. She even joked on SNL about being "legal now"...
Excellent choice! What Tina was able to create out of a non-fiction book (obviously, basing A LOT OF THIS on her own experiences) is impressive by any standard, and it holds up. So many interesting/cute in-jokes (like Janis Ian's namesake) that you'll need to seek out. IMDB is still good for trivia, at least.
I graduated from a large Highschool in 09' and cliques or bullies hardly existed at all. The cheerleaders and jocks were some of the most chill and nice people haha
I know this reaction is old so you might not even see this but I was SHOCKED at 21:59 when George said “Some women just like to watch the world burn” 😮 Because in the Mean Girls musical there is a song called “World Burn” and it’s sung by Regina 😮 and if I’m not mistaken it happens during this scene 😮 wat
Have you guys watched "Heathers" yet (the actual movie, not the musical)? That would be the perfect follow-up to this movie: sort of the same idea, but *way* more over the top.
Just as a thing that somebody else has probably noted, but Clueless was actually a modern day retelling of Jane Austen's "Emma", so while it may have had teen jokes its themes are kind of eternal.
Grounding is way harder to do now. When I was a kid we had one TV and one computer in the house, so my dad would just take the power cables to work with him. Now the kids have computers that they need for school (along with some Internet access), and they often have their own devices. The effectiveness is clearly dependent on the kid; the more they like the things you can restrict, the better grounding works.
@@sexysadie2901 Not to mention the scores of studies that show how ineffectual using violence is in raising children, and the zero studies that support it.
@@Krucifus You're welcome to your opinion, I'm not debating it. You can take it up with the people who have done the studies, or look for ones that support the use of physical punishment and try to get them some attention. I think it's pretty clear that spanking doesn't turn people into horrible humans as it was very common when I was a kid and I'm not surrounded by horrible people my age all the time.
Schools in the USA are very different. When I went to college, some of my friends talked about the horrible time they had in high school and it sounded a lot like the stereotypical clique stuff. My high school life (in the early/mid 80s) was a bit different. The cliques weren't as rigid/strong it seemed. Some of the more popular people were pretty smart, too. Of course, it was a different time... we had a separate prom committee than the school and money was raised by having keg parties and stuff. It wasn't uncommon to see 300+ people at parties out at the Sand Bar on the river or where ever... people from all cliques for the most part. Senior skip day was always a big event... usually a big keg party over at the lake with lots of folks... like 8 kegs and a few hundred pounds of boiled crawfish. As I found out in college, our parties were on par with frat parties ;)
21:58 that's really funny because in the Mean Girls musical, there's actually a song that Regina sings called "World Burn" and one of the lyrics is "I wanna watch the world burn, I got the gasoline" Edit: Also yes. At Prom (which in my school is for only juniors and seniors unless you're an underclassman who gets invited by an older student), they crown a King and Queen. It really is just a popularity contest. The student body will vote for who they think should be crowned from a select group of students that they call the Prom Court. For Homecoming (which is for basically everyone), they have a Homecoming Court. We have a Homecoming Night at our football games and that's where we crown our Homecoming King and Queen and then the dance is just a dance.
I knew George would apply his keen intellect and perception to scenes I would never even think twice about. George breaks down American teens like no other on the net. As he elegantly puts it. "What is it Batman said. If you put on the mask long enough you forget who you are". An awesome breakdown from George, that was so spot-on as Katie transforms into one of the most plastic of the plastic bunch.
The cliques were *absolutely* a thing throughout my entire school experience. Middle and high school. Me and all of my friends were definitely in the art freak category. I never would have put lunch meat on my face though...
The funny thing is, as American the high school dynamics was, it was actually filmed in a high school in Toronto. The big house Regina lived in sold for $15 million a few years ago. It is in Bridle Path, a very high end Toronto neighborhood.
Rachel McAdams is absolute dynamite I don't think I've seen her give a bad performance, nor does she seem to have a particular set of quirks/mannerisms that she carries from film to film. She is great in this, but also in Spotlight (what a film!) and Game Night. If you're going to continue to do high school movies (and why not since it confuses George so much with how weird US high schools are...) are you going to give Easy A a watch soon? I'd also recommend some of the indie films like Election and Me And Earl And The Dying Girl which do something a bit different with the setting
The cliques in my high school were so well defined and geographically separate that every Christmas there was a school tradition where each clique would decorate their "corner", complete with a judging process and awards.
There were two high schools in my home town. Mine was like Simone's, it seems -- no easy-to-define cliques, just smooth gradations between types of people. The other HS was like the one in this movie. The handful of students who took classes at both schools acted like war vets trying to reintegrate into peaceful society. >.< The college I went to in the same town, though (a Catholic liberal arts school famous for its football team and filled with rich kids from all over the mountain west, when I was a atheist townie STEM nerd there on scholarship) was the first place I met the stereotypical "high school" villains. *_shudder_*
Cliques were absolutely a thing at my school. It was never this severe, but there was absolutely bullying and drama and awkwardness and people going behind each other's backs. Weird stuff.
Lindsey Lohan's breakout role was the Parent Trap, where she played twins separated at birth one raised in California and the other in London, England. She perfectly captured the English accent.
People like to tear apart Parent Trap because people "got too smart" so every reactor bashes the parents for what they did. So now reactors ruined the film for me now. Cynics ruin everything, like how Cinema Therapy cancelled The Notebook.
My experience with high school (big city) was that whole the whole group dynamics were loosely true, it didn't stop people from being cool with people in other circles. I was part of the Jackass group (we were dumb teenagers), but I also did sports and people tell me know that I sounded like I was a jock. We ate lunch with the BMX kids, and some of the cheerleaders. Plenty of band kids were part of other groups, so it wasn't hard lines drawn in the sand. Most of us talked with others. Granted the chess club kids weren't kicking it with cheerleaders or jocks but they weren't mean to them or anything. There wasn't animosity between groups and they were fluid as people are fluid and not only about 1 thing usually.
Right? They've quickly become my favourite movie reaction channel on YT. At first i thought, "oh great, yet another one." But the first video i saw, Simone was wearing a Soundgarden t-shirt (one of my all-time favourite bands) so i figured I'd give them a shot. I appreciate that they don't just react, their commentary is more in-depth, insightful and just flat-out entertaining than most other channels. Especially enjoy when they break out into giggle fits. They have such a good rapport together. I can be quite analytical at times, so I really like George's breakdown of different aspects of moviemaking, from cinematography to framing, writing, dialogue, etc. And I'll also admit to having a tiny crush on Simone as well. And to top it off, they're Canadian...greetings from Toronto!
I think the more diversity at your school the mor cliques. My high school had 4000+ multi-ethnic kids so there were alot of cliques. I was a bit of roamer being on the football team and in an anime club but hanging out with Filipino kids and soccer players.
Damien's and BEth's oneliners are better than most woman can dream of. "He's almost too gay to function", "JOinging Mathletes is social suicide", "I see ugly people", "OMG, Danny DeVito, I love you.", "Seeing a teacher outside of school, is like seeing a dog walk on it's hind legs". SO hilarious. I could listen to them burn people for hours on end.
Does anyone else think Amanda Seyfried's eyes look way too intelligent and expressive for such a dumb girl role? Your reactions to high school movies are really interesting and relatable, because I'm equally confused about American high schools -- or at least how they're portrayed in movies. It's interesting what George said about the difference between this and Clueless. I also liked this one better, and maybe some of it has to do with the sort of distance you talked about. Clueless is deep within the teen world; Mean Girls has a sense of dramatic irony maybe.
Speaking to my high school experience in Southern California in the late 90's, cliques were absolutely a thing but there was room for a fair amount of overlap and the various cliques didn't really have strong rivalries, for the most part they just left each other alone and if someone had friends in multiple cliques that was perfectly fine. I was firmly in the nerd outcast clique but my best friend was in the band/drama kids clique and we both moved back and forth easily enough.
21:58 I absolutely love that he said this, cause in the Mean Girls: The Musical, The song Regina sings during this scene is literally called “World Burn” where she says “I wanna watch the world burn.”
Neil Flynn ( The Janitor ) played the dad on the tv comedy series The Middle. He is one of my favorite tv dads. It was on for 9 seasons.😊 Also there is a Canadian brand called " So Fetch " apparel for dogs and a online female Australian clothing line called "That's so Fetch "
This movie might as well be a documentary of my high school experience in the mid to late 90s. Except our giant brawl was a giant food fight in the cafeteria
Well, If you've seen this, you have to check out Heathers: its a little more mature than Mean Girls but you'll see where Mean Girls got its inspiration from. Conisidentally it also has a JD in it (considering the amount of scrubs refferences in this episode!)
The part where one or both of you try to guess the plot based on context clues always makes my day, and I'm thankful for that bit. And also the thumbnails!
I went to a small high school. The same one Kurt Cobain attended. Imo, people kind of stuck to their own groups, but the division wasn't as blatant as in this movie. The more interesting component of hs is how little we know about classmate's home lives. Like my graduating class was 180 or something kids (pretty small) but still there were so many people I never had in depth conversations with. To answer you question though, I was sort of a floater between groups. I ate lunch with my cross-country and track teammates, but I do recall questioning the inherent hs clique thing, so my senior year I ate at a new lunch table every day for a month. Very interesting experience.
I went to high school 2006-2010 in Texas. In my high school at least, there definitely was cliques. I hung out with mostly the nerds, burnouts, and theatre kids. lol.
So I went to a private school, and the "cliques" were mostly between the excellent over-achievers (who were also athletes. You needed a high GPA to do any sports programs) and the rest. The rest of us didn't really make further cliques. There weren't many of us to begin with. So we just did our own things. I was into drawing and reading. But not what everyone else liked reading. When I was in 10th grade, I broke my leg. So gym, recess, things like that, were not available for me. So I spent most of that year reading all the books in the school's literature lab.
Cliques in high schools can vary across the US. There are schools that may not have cliques because they are small, in rural areas or they are so big and have so many students that kids don’t really know or care about each other enough to form clear cliques.
The cliques for our school district happened in middle school, when everyone had crazy hormones and thought they were grown. By high school the social groups still existed but no one was mean to different groups any more and people could move between groups. Also, eating lunch outside depends on school in the US. Mine allowed only 3-4 year students out. And when they built the new school, it became closed campus (no one outside). [I was in high school 2006-2010 if that makes a difference.]
I think y'all should react to About Time! It's such a great rom-com! And features Rachel McAdams. Edit: muffin was a slang for 😺 So to "butter one's muffin" was a euphemism used in the early-mid 00s. Second Edit: yes most schools/highschools were like this up until the late 00's. I graduated in 2010 and went to 3 different highschools. They were ALL like this. I was completely ostracized because I wasn't a cheerleader, rich, or very popular. And I sat with the art kids/band geeks. I may have been on talking terms with people who were a part of other cliques in class, but I wasn't allowed to sit with them in the cafeteria. And often sat alone. And the "made out with a hotdog" was supposed to be something else. Basically, she.......self pleased herself with a hotdog. But that brought the rating to R I believe. So they had to change the joke.
6:23 My high school was like that, although that was way back in like 2012. Certain cliques only hung out in specific areas of the school and some cliques were “rivals” with other ones.
Great reaction! But the meanest high school girls of all time? "Carrie" (1976). Oh man, that is a MUST for you two! Eventually! That is going to be a hell of a reaction when and if! /PS: You guys may never have seen Saturday Night Live, but this is (yet another) great Saturday Night Live-affiliated movie.....and we always have to thank CANADA for Saturday Night Live for it gave us, among other SNL figures, Lorne Michaels, the creator and the producer of the show, from 1975 to the present day. He even produced this movie, "Mean Girls"! And it was written and co-starring Tina Fey (former cast member and head writer of SNL), other SNL people in "Mean Girls" is the mom (Ana Gastmeyer), the principal(Tim Meadows), Amy Poehler plays the mom with the rock hard boob job...and there's at least one other that I can't remember. So please, by all means, take some national pride for "Mean Girls"! :)
I haven't read all the comments so in case it's already been said I apologize. Some fun facts. When the guy says has your muffin been buttered, the original line was supposed to be has your cherry been popped, but they we're trying to keep from getting an R rating. Tim Meadows , the principal, had really injured his hand in real life and contacted Tina Fey and said he would understand if she wanted to get somebody else to play the part. Of course them being friends she said no way and he still did it. When Damien yelled " I want my pink shirt back" (one of the most remembered lines) that was totally Ad libbed! He was just supposed to drive off. Tina loved it and kept in. Oh, and as far as " half a virgin" the only thing I can thing of is she um ... Rolled over. 😳
In my experience cliques are not that well-defined, no. There were kids who were broadly "popular", but that usually meant they were jocks (literally on some kind of sports team, usually football), cheerleaders, or just had wealthy parents. Even then it didn't mean they were all friends with each other, or necessarily wouldn't be friends with someone who wasn't of that ilk.
Ok, that intro from Simone was fantastic and just made my day!! I absolutely loved that! Thank you both for making me smile, and keep that smile for the rest of the day. Love you guys!! ♥️♥️
The principal also played the cannibal (one of Jake’s odd jail “friends”) in Brooklyn 99 if you’ve both watched it, it’s pretty far along in the series. I didn’t catch it for the longest time. It’s amazing to watch him play a wholesome principal after that 😂
I went to a small high school many moons ago, and there were a lot of cliques; but none of them were ever at war with one another. You had: preppies, jocks, shop class guys, computer guys, cheer leaders, band people, smokers, non smokers, brainiacs, et cetera; but there was cross over between groups. I don't know if they partied together, but as far as school activities went different people hung out somewhat together; and there usually weren't fights.
Lindsay Lohan was actually only 18 when she did this movie. And Amanda Seyfried was 19. Only plastics that were in there 20s was Rachel McAdams who was 26 and Lacey Charbet was 21.
Some movie recommendations: - The Hangover - Easy A - Superbad - Crazy, Stupid, Love - The Interview - 21 Jump Street But less comedy based: - The Help - Hidden Figures - Django Unchained And some movies that basically revolves around Rachel Mcadams character choice type is: - The Time Travellers Wife - About Time - The Notebook obv - The Vow - Southpaw And some psychological thrillers: - Prisoners - Seven - Zodiac - Silence Of The Lambs - The Usual Suspects And some must see movies: - The Social Network - Any of Nolan, Tarantino, Scorsese films - Parasite I’d just like to say if you have already seen it and/or reacted to it then I’ll be checking it out 👍
When I was in high school there were a lot of little cliques : Jocks/Cheerleaders, Preppies, Alternative, Geeks/Nerds, and so on. Some other groups kind of enveloped several, such as Theatre having kids from most cliques lumped in. My son is in 11th grade now and from what I have heard over the years (as I have introduced him to several of the High School films I grew up with) a lot of those groups aren't that solid. People blend more. But that is around here. Things are different not just state to state, but even one part of a county to another things can change quite a bit. These movies seem to try to take the most common stuff seen in various schools (even if just to a small degree) and lumped them into one school while amping it up. The most unrealistic things in American film about high school I can think of though are..... - Lockers. Even when I was in school there was just NO time to every use a locker. - Showers. Like lockers, there was never time or proper facilities. SO if you have gym class first, you are hoping the damp towel and reapplying deodorant did the trick against the sweat and dirty of the class. - Age. When I was in high school the age range was around 13-20yo, rather than 27-32yo they have these days (casting joke)
I have never got high school movies either. that could be because I'm from Australia. there were groups, you had the more popular kids, the nerdy kids, the stoners etc, but its not as if the popular kids ere popular because they were mean or anything, it was just because they were more outgoing people and all the groups would talk and interact, its not as if one area was off limits to all but one group. I think one thing that probably helps this is most Australian schools don't have a 'cafeteria', you either brought your lunch with you or went to the canteen and to buy it. you would just sit on a seat somewhere outside around the school grounds. not to mention I always find them weird how sexual these movies are because here high school finishes at 16, then your on to year 11-12 which for public school is quite often a completely different school with a completely different setup (students come and go as they please, no mandatory classes etc. we call it collage)
Yes in the states it was clique-y. It was more pronounced in the 80s, but still in effect while I was in middle/high school in the 90s. The "1, 3, 5" store is based on a real store from the 90s called "5, 7, 9".
When I went to high school (graduated 2009), there were cliques but more like friend groups. You would just hang out with your friends who were often into the same things that you were into. Some people were part of more than one group and would float to different tables. Middle school had the most clearly defined separations at school lunch because of the smaller population of students.
I remember seeing this in the theatre when I was 15 with my mom, two friends, and their moms. All the girls loved it and thought it was such a good representation of high school and all the moms HATED it and were pretty scandalized by the content, lol. I graduated in ‘07 and I still feel that while being slightly dramatic, it was definitely a good representation of how cliques were at the time. Just for reference, I’m from Texas and I went to a very large school. My graduating class was 1200.
My high school wasn't as extreme as this but there were definitely different "cultural" groups. People could move around in those groups depending on shared traits. Also, if you went outside to eat lunch you would have gotten detention for sure. Don't ever leave the building.
Tumblr has the scene where she tells Aaron what day it is EVERYWHERE every October 3 lol. People queue the gifset months in advance. It doubles with Fullmetal alchemist day, which is a little hilarious.
All the "mean girls" at my high school were cheerleaders. Worked with some after graduation and they weren't mean at all individually. But some of the cliques were fierce. I was in art all 4 years and art was the one class in my high school where all the cliques truly mixed. You could sit with anybody at any table. It helped that I used to be able to draw well. Used to... My favorite girls were the nerdy ones with "ugly duckling" syndrome. They were really beautiful swans underneath and hadn't realized it yet. But cliques were going strong in the 1980's. No doubt.
"Some women just wanna watch the World Burn" would be just another phrase if not for the fact that in the Mean Girls' musical, the song that they sing during this bit of the play is legit World Burn 😂😂😂😂
I’ve never experienced a high school that cliquey. My high school was divided into three groups because it was a magnet school for performing arts and high tech and then you had the students who this was their actual school. But even then being in the high tech program I hung out at lunch with performing arts kids, knew jocks and cheerleaders. It was nothing like this portrayal or many others in TV and movies where people would be like “Oh my god, I’m a jock or cheerleader how dare you talk to me”. I also was a substitute for 4 of the local high schools and never noticed any of the students being that ingrained in cliques.
Can't believe you guys haven't gotten to Easy A with Emma Stone since watching this! Or the *original* "mean girls" movie: Heathers from 1988. I'll add it to Patreon too.
REgina should be studied by War GEnerals all over the world. Her ability to set social landmines and mind traps is on par with the Vietcong and their relentless campaign of guerrilla warfare. That's what truly makes REgina such a treat to watch in Mean Girls.
I'm so glad cliques weren't really a thing in my high school. I mean we had cliques and spots where everyone hung out, but a lot of the times, people just interacted with everyone in some manner.
The phrase “stop trying to make ‘fetch’ happen” persisted for _years_ as a way of mocking someone whenever they were trying too hard to be cool.
I mean... I still use it
@@erikperhs_ _sotto voce_ so do i, but im old so I didnt think i should speak for others
This movie was "streets ahead"
@@sleeper-cassieI still occasionally like to throw in a "That was way harsh Ty" from Clueless. I'm also old.
I watched this many times, and it took someone to point this out to me. Regina heard Janice say she was Lebanese but thought she said lesbian. Totally went over my head and its hilarious.
I also actually only figured this out recently on a rewatch.
@@petrusjnaude7279 it's hilarious and genuinely (I don't think) it's directly pointed out, which makes the writing all the better.
@@sparkequinox And with the way she is portrayed in the movie, it is totally believable that Regina would hear Lebanese and think she meant lesbian.
What? She said she thought she was a lesbian because she was jealous of Regina's first boyfriend, not because she heard Lebanese and thought lesbian
Ironic how Regina mocks Karen for being stupid and yet never called herself out when she had a dumb moment.
I feel like the reason this movie is so popular (besides being hilarious) is that, while being clearly hyperbolic, it is relatable to so many people. High school sucks because no one knows what they're doing or who they are and so they take it out on everyone else. This movie captures that better than any other imo.
I related far more to American Pie than this movie. I loved this movie, just not as relatable (for me).
Also it perfectly captures the millennial experience of high school.
That’s interesting to me because I think these movies capture the feeling of North American high school even if it’s exaggerated but if you live elsewhere, it’s not all that relatable. Always enjoyed this movie and other American high school movies, it just seemed like a worlds away from what I experienced despite still being a millennial, just one on the other side of the world.
you are wrong about what that means, its not about trying to be cool is about trying to manipulate people to make something happen when is not organic.
The severity of cliques at least in my highschool sort of disappeared in the mid to late 2000s when it became cool to be a nerd and nerd entertainment blew up. The boundaries between scenes definitely blurred quite a bit.
If you two haven't seen the movie remake of 21 Jump Street, it addresses this rapid change, and it was also hilarious
Wish that had happened where I lived. I graduated in 2007 and it was very much like this film. A little too close. lol
@@cruzinbosco Well I'd say nerd shit started really blowing up with popularity of MCU. But first steps were paved by earlier superhero movies (xmen, spidermen, maybe even batman begins) and LOTR becoming a megahit. So by 2008-2010 being a nerd became cool.
Class of 05 here. 100% right. High school was super clique heavy, but the actual separation of floating between groups wasn't so hardcore. You could be a burnout band geek. Or skater cheerleader.
I graduated in 1999, Nerds like me were ignored but as the internet became more common and Fantasy and Sci-fi entertainment gained popularity so did me and my friends. By 2005, me and my “nerd” friends got good jobs, gym memberships, and relationship experience we became the “cool” adults.
basically, it depends on the time/school
i was in high school 05-09 and it had clique's but it wasn't as severe
when my mom went to school it was way worse
i personally did my own thing and hung out with a lot of different people but i may have gotten away with it easier than most because i didn't have to do much to be seen a cool unlike some of my other friends
When Simone said it was Rachel McAdams break out role I had to go find release dates of Mean Girls (April 30) and The notebook (August 27) as they came out the same year. It is for me such an impressive display of acting capacity to play two so different roles in two so different kind of movies in the same year :) And no George, it is not weird that you find Regina kinda hot, it would be if you didn't, I mean, Rachel is gorgeous!
On that last point, I'd say that's kinda the point of the movie. All of the Mean Girls are very pretty, but obviously they're just... MEAN. You can think Regina is hot, but still say that her personality leaves a lot to be desired.
She is also in 'Slings & Arrows', which is utterly hilarious.
She was also in The Hot Chick around that time
Rachel McAdams is a smoke show for sure. Didn't really like her as much in this movie though... not a fan of the blonde hair or the pulled-back ponytail looks back then. Long (down to their butt, if possible), dark hair is the best.
Well, after all, Regina's last name is George.
I think you guys would enjoy Easy A. It was one of Emma Stone’s first roles and it has similar themes to Clueless and Mean Girls. It is very loosely based on the Scarlet Letter and very funny.
Scarlet Letter?
Well, Crazy, Stupid Love then! It´s my #2 all time favorite comedy.
Everything after Mean Girls is like Mean Girls 😂
@@chanceneck8072 I would love to see them react to Crazy, Stupid Love! They’d have such a good time with that (I’m sure we all would, lol).
@@goldenageofdinosaurs7192 Yeah and it´s not even been much reacted to at all yet. If you search for it on RUclips, I think there might be 3 or 4 channels at max! TOTAL! Who reacted to it. And I think they were big channels.
As I said, I just freaking love that movie. But I also love Jennifer´s body, always a fun reaction to watch, like Trin Lovell or Dylan Is In Trouble...
@@Dreadpoolz3977 I’d like to see ‘em check out “Heathers”, the ultimate mean girls original. You thought these girls were mean??? You ain’t seen nuttin yet
Underrated performance by Amanda Seyfried. She´s SOOOO pretty and she was AWESOME in Jennifer´s Body!
Jennifer's Body is a criminally underrated movie. It's my go-to answer when someone asks what movie I genuinely like that has a shit rating on IMDB.
On the topic of actually good teen horror: Ginger Snaps. It's Canadian, too!
@@VilleHalonen Jennifer's Body has found a cult following fortunately, post #TimesUp.
@@Madbandit77 Fortunately. The writer said it was marketed all wrong. I imagine it being a letdown if you expect a horror movie, or worse yet, "Twilight for boys" like Roger Ebert said.
She was awesome in Les Miz :)
@@VilleHalonen oh, Ginger Snaps is great! Katharine Isabelle has quite a few quality horror films to her name
Rachel McAdams does such a brilliant job as Regina George... Really everyone does a great job.
George asked if it was weird that he found Regina George very attractive. Like...duh, dude, no, that's 1) part of the point of Regina's character 2) she's played by Rachel freakin McAdams.
@@jerodast she is for sure a beautiful woman.
That picture George is going to haunt me as much as Simone’s 300 did.
Challenging wank?
Bad dreams... or good dreams?
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I had to laugh when George said "Some girls just want to watch the World burn" because in Mean Girls the musical, the song for that over of the musical (Regina making copies of the burn book and spreading them) is called "World burn" and is one of my favourite songs of the musical.
"There's a 30% chance it's already raining" I'm dying. 🤣
I went to school in the 80's 90's, and there were cliques. I don't miss those days, teen drama was so severe😆
Yeah not so much in mid 2000-now. Cliques are much more blurred but still kinda true
@@ChristianMartinez-co1vb what you by mid 2000's? My school had them in 2002-2006
Early 2000s for me and at my school they were called "groups" but when 9th and or 10th grade camps were happening, the principal actually assured us all that we would stick in our groups and wouldn't be split apart.
Rachel McAdams is the true star he. She does an amazing job at playing a mean girl and is great in any role she plays in.
Imo i think tim medows is the sleeping hero in this movie
Wedding Crashers!
When I saw her in Doctor Strange I was convinced.
All the actors are excellent, but I think Amanda Seyfried makes me laugh funnier than anyone else.
@@jculver1674 Dude, I love her so much. And she was great in Jennifer´s Body. Another movie, I would love to see these two react to.....
Rachel McAdams is Canadian, she is your Queen 👸🌟
12:55-13:05 I think this is my favorite sequence of the film. Really set of clever transitions from the talent show, to her insane Brutus speech, to her spilling everything in the bathroom; it brings you forward in time all the while keeping us on her face as her mental state cracks from the pressure. That along with Lacey's performance really makes this a hilarious sequence that all informs us on character. Good shit. I don't remember Lacey doing much of note after this, unlike a lot of the others in this film. Its a shame because she really gave a great comedic performance.
Looks like she does more voice acting than live acting. She's been putting in steady work though. 159 credits to her name.
Lacey played Kaycee from the Bratz TV series. I'm still pissed it was cancelled back in 2006.
The one thing they mis-represented most about American High Schools is that IRL there are only a few students attending there who are in their late 20's
When George said "it's okay since they're all in at least their 20s" I laughed because there was actually a disturbing amount of commentary around when Lindsay Lohan was turning 18 at that time. She even joked on SNL about being "legal now"...
Excellent choice! What Tina was able to create out of a non-fiction book (obviously, basing A LOT OF THIS on her own experiences) is impressive by any standard, and it holds up. So many interesting/cute in-jokes (like Janis Ian's namesake) that you'll need to seek out. IMDB is still good for trivia, at least.
21:58 the funny thing is that there is a mean girls musical and that scene is regina george singing and the song name is World Burn 😭😭
I graduated from a large Highschool in 09' and cliques or bullies hardly existed at all. The cheerleaders and jocks were some of the most chill and nice people haha
I know this reaction is old so you might not even see this but I was SHOCKED at 21:59 when George said “Some women just like to watch the world burn” 😮 Because in the Mean Girls musical there is a song called “World Burn” and it’s sung by Regina 😮 and if I’m not mistaken it happens during this scene 😮 wat
Have you guys watched "Heathers" yet (the actual movie, not the musical)? That would be the perfect follow-up to this movie: sort of the same idea, but *way* more over the top.
YES!
The director of "Mean Girls" is the brother of the writer of "Heathers," so there's definitely some DNA sharing going on.
Yes, Heathers is a classic.
Total Gen X movie! 🤘
And Pump Up The Volume!!
Just as a thing that somebody else has probably noted, but Clueless was actually a modern day retelling of Jane Austen's "Emma", so while it may have had teen jokes its themes are kind of eternal.
Grounding is way harder to do now.
When I was a kid we had one TV and one computer in the house, so my dad would just take the power cables to work with him.
Now the kids have computers that they need for school (along with some Internet access), and they often have their own devices.
The effectiveness is clearly dependent on the kid; the more they like the things you can restrict, the better grounding works.
@@JB-wy8fc A good slap never works, unless you want your kids to throw you in a nursing home when you're old and then never pay you a visit.
@@sexysadie2901 Not to mention the scores of studies that show how ineffectual using violence is in raising children, and the zero studies that support it.
@@Krucifus You're welcome to your opinion, I'm not debating it.
You can take it up with the people who have done the studies, or look for ones that support the use of physical punishment and try to get them some attention.
I think it's pretty clear that spanking doesn't turn people into horrible humans as it was very common when I was a kid and I'm not surrounded by horrible people my age all the time.
Schools in the USA are very different. When I went to college, some of my friends talked about the horrible time they had in high school and it sounded a lot like the stereotypical clique stuff. My high school life (in the early/mid 80s) was a bit different. The cliques weren't as rigid/strong it seemed. Some of the more popular people were pretty smart, too. Of course, it was a different time... we had a separate prom committee than the school and money was raised by having keg parties and stuff. It wasn't uncommon to see 300+ people at parties out at the Sand Bar on the river or where ever... people from all cliques for the most part. Senior skip day was always a big event... usually a big keg party over at the lake with lots of folks... like 8 kegs and a few hundred pounds of boiled crawfish. As I found out in college, our parties were on par with frat parties ;)
21:58 that's really funny because in the Mean Girls musical, there's actually a song that Regina sings called "World Burn" and one of the lyrics is "I wanna watch the world burn, I got the gasoline"
Edit: Also yes. At Prom (which in my school is for only juniors and seniors unless you're an underclassman who gets invited by an older student), they crown a King and Queen. It really is just a popularity contest. The student body will vote for who they think should be crowned from a select group of students that they call the Prom Court. For Homecoming (which is for basically everyone), they have a Homecoming Court. We have a Homecoming Night at our football games and that's where we crown our Homecoming King and Queen and then the dance is just a dance.
Yess I was looing for a comment about that :D
I knew George would apply his keen intellect and perception to scenes I would never even think twice about. George breaks down American teens like no other on the net. As he elegantly puts it. "What is it Batman said. If you put on the mask long enough you forget who you are". An awesome breakdown from George, that was so spot-on as Katie transforms into one of the most plastic of the plastic bunch.
The cliques were *absolutely* a thing throughout my entire school experience. Middle and high school. Me and all of my friends were definitely in the art freak category. I never would have put lunch meat on my face though...
The funny thing is, as American the high school dynamics was, it was actually filmed in a high school in Toronto. The big house Regina lived in sold for $15 million a few years ago. It is in Bridle Path, a very high end Toronto neighborhood.
You say they're all 20-somethings, but Lindsay Lohan and Amanda Seyfried were 17 during principal photography.
Rachel McAdams is absolute dynamite I don't think I've seen her give a bad performance, nor does she seem to have a particular set of quirks/mannerisms that she carries from film to film. She is great in this, but also in Spotlight (what a film!) and Game Night.
If you're going to continue to do high school movies (and why not since it confuses George so much with how weird US high schools are...) are you going to give Easy A a watch soon? I'd also recommend some of the indie films like Election and Me And Earl And The Dying Girl which do something a bit different with the setting
The cliques in my high school were so well defined and geographically separate that every Christmas there was a school tradition where each clique would decorate their "corner", complete with a judging process and awards.
There were two high schools in my home town. Mine was like Simone's, it seems -- no easy-to-define cliques, just smooth gradations between types of people. The other HS was like the one in this movie. The handful of students who took classes at both schools acted like war vets trying to reintegrate into peaceful society. >.<
The college I went to in the same town, though (a Catholic liberal arts school famous for its football team and filled with rich kids from all over the mountain west, when I was a atheist townie STEM nerd there on scholarship) was the first place I met the stereotypical "high school" villains. *_shudder_*
Rachel filmed the notebook the SAME year as this. Such a great actress
Cliques were absolutely a thing at my school. It was never this severe, but there was absolutely bullying and drama and awkwardness and people going behind each other's backs. Weird stuff.
Lindsey Lohan's breakout role was the Parent Trap, where she played twins separated at birth one raised in California and the other in London, England. She perfectly captured the English accent.
Freaky Friday is a good movie. Dunno why so many people hate her. The more people dislike her the more I feel myself drawn to everything she does lol
People like to tear apart Parent Trap because people "got too smart" so every reactor bashes the parents for what they did. So now reactors ruined the film for me now. Cynics ruin everything, like how Cinema Therapy cancelled The Notebook.
I’m a grumpy old guy and this is one of my favourite movies. Thanks for your reaction!
I graduated from my American high school 6 years ago and honestly I wished my high school was ever THIS dramatic 😂
My experience with high school (big city) was that whole the whole group dynamics were loosely true, it didn't stop people from being cool with people in other circles. I was part of the Jackass group (we were dumb teenagers), but I also did sports and people tell me know that I sounded like I was a jock. We ate lunch with the BMX kids, and some of the cheerleaders. Plenty of band kids were part of other groups, so it wasn't hard lines drawn in the sand. Most of us talked with others. Granted the chess club kids weren't kicking it with cheerleaders or jocks but they weren't mean to them or anything. There wasn't animosity between groups and they were fluid as people are fluid and not only about 1 thing usually.
Simone is a gosh darn cutie. And hey George, here’s lookin at you too, handsome.
Love you guys! You make my day all the brighter.
I hope your account name is your real name cause it's fucking awesome
Right? They've quickly become my favourite movie reaction channel on YT. At first i thought, "oh great, yet another one." But the first video i saw, Simone was wearing a Soundgarden t-shirt (one of my all-time favourite bands) so i figured I'd give them a shot.
I appreciate that they don't just react, their commentary is more in-depth, insightful and just flat-out entertaining than most other channels. Especially enjoy when they break out into giggle fits. They have such a good rapport together.
I can be quite analytical at times, so I really like George's breakdown of different aspects of moviemaking, from cinematography to framing, writing, dialogue, etc. And I'll also admit to having a tiny crush on Simone as well.
And to top it off, they're Canadian...greetings from Toronto!
I love that your first reaction to seeing Neil Flynn is "it's the Janitor!" that's always my first reaction lol
I know you say you can't judge a book by its cover but the George thumbnails are always top rate content
I think the more diversity at your school the mor cliques. My high school had 4000+ multi-ethnic kids so there were alot of cliques. I was a bit of roamer being on the football team and in an anime club but hanging out with Filipino kids and soccer players.
Damien's and BEth's oneliners are better than most woman can dream of. "He's almost too gay to function", "JOinging Mathletes is social suicide", "I see ugly people", "OMG, Danny DeVito, I love you.", "Seeing a teacher outside of school, is like seeing a dog walk on it's hind legs". SO hilarious. I could listen to them burn people for hours on end.
Does anyone else think Amanda Seyfried's eyes look way too intelligent and expressive for such a dumb girl role?
Your reactions to high school movies are really interesting and relatable, because I'm equally confused about American high schools -- or at least how they're portrayed in movies. It's interesting what George said about the difference between this and Clueless. I also liked this one better, and maybe some of it has to do with the sort of distance you talked about. Clueless is deep within the teen world; Mean Girls has a sense of dramatic irony maybe.
Speaking to my high school experience in Southern California in the late 90's, cliques were absolutely a thing but there was room for a fair amount of overlap and the various cliques didn't really have strong rivalries, for the most part they just left each other alone and if someone had friends in multiple cliques that was perfectly fine. I was firmly in the nerd outcast clique but my best friend was in the band/drama kids clique and we both moved back and forth easily enough.
This is exactly what my high school was like, until senior year. Then everyone grew up and became friends... but before that, absolutely.
21:58 I absolutely love that he said this, cause in the Mean Girls: The Musical, The song Regina sings during this scene is literally called “World Burn” where she says “I wanna watch the world burn.”
Don’t remember where this movie was set geographically, but it was filmed mostly in Toronto.
Neil Flynn ( The Janitor ) played the dad on the tv comedy series The Middle. He is one of my favorite tv dads. It was on for 9 seasons.😊 Also there is a Canadian brand called " So Fetch " apparel for dogs and a online female Australian clothing line called "That's so Fetch "
I heard a theory that Regina confused Lebanese with lesbian when her and Janice were kids and I really hope it’s true. Friggin hilarious
This movie might as well be a documentary of my high school experience in the mid to late 90s. Except our giant brawl was a giant food fight in the cafeteria
Tina Fey is a great writer omg so many absurd jokes, this movie at this point is a classic it even became a broadway musical
Simone with that intro accent from the GReat North country. I emplore you to watch, "Fargo"
Well, If you've seen this, you have to check out Heathers: its a little more mature than Mean Girls but you'll see where Mean Girls got its inspiration from. Conisidentally it also has a JD in it (considering the amount of scrubs refferences in this episode!)
All these years later, I still text my friends, reminding them it's October third
The part where one or both of you try to guess the plot based on context clues always makes my day, and I'm thankful for that bit. And also the thumbnails!
This wasn't Lindsay's breakout role, it was the peek of her career. I'd say her breakout role was The Parent Trap when she was a kid.
I went to a small high school. The same one Kurt Cobain attended. Imo, people kind of stuck to their own groups, but the division wasn't as blatant as in this movie. The more interesting component of hs is how little we know about classmate's home lives. Like my graduating class was 180 or something kids (pretty small) but still there were so many people I never had in depth conversations with.
To answer you question though, I was sort of a floater between groups. I ate lunch with my cross-country and track teammates, but I do recall questioning the inherent hs clique thing, so my senior year I ate at a new lunch table every day for a month.
Very interesting experience.
Now you guys gotta watch the original "Heathers" movie, starring Winona Ryder and Christian Slater.
I went to high school 2006-2010 in Texas. In my high school at least, there definitely was cliques. I hung out with mostly the nerds, burnouts, and theatre kids. lol.
So I went to a private school, and the "cliques" were mostly between the excellent over-achievers (who were also athletes. You needed a high GPA to do any sports programs) and the rest.
The rest of us didn't really make further cliques. There weren't many of us to begin with. So we just did our own things.
I was into drawing and reading. But not what everyone else liked reading.
When I was in 10th grade, I broke my leg. So gym, recess, things like that, were not available for me. So I spent most of that year reading all the books in the school's literature lab.
Cliques in high schools can vary across the US. There are schools that may not have cliques because they are small, in rural areas or they are so big and have so many students that kids don’t really know or care about each other enough to form clear cliques.
The cliques for our school district happened in middle school, when everyone had crazy hormones and thought they were grown. By high school the social groups still existed but no one was mean to different groups any more and people could move between groups.
Also, eating lunch outside depends on school in the US. Mine allowed only 3-4 year students out. And when they built the new school, it became closed campus (no one outside).
[I was in high school 2006-2010 if that makes a difference.]
I think y'all should react to About Time! It's such a great rom-com! And features Rachel McAdams.
Edit: muffin was a slang for 😺
So to "butter one's muffin" was a euphemism used in the early-mid 00s.
Second Edit: yes most schools/highschools were like this up until the late 00's. I graduated in 2010 and went to 3 different highschools. They were ALL like this. I was completely ostracized because I wasn't a cheerleader, rich, or very popular. And I sat with the art kids/band geeks. I may have been on talking terms with people who were a part of other cliques in class, but I wasn't allowed to sit with them in the cafeteria. And often sat alone.
And the "made out with a hotdog" was supposed to be something else. Basically, she.......self pleased herself with a hotdog. But that brought the rating to R I believe. So they had to change the joke.
The irony about asking if this is what high school was like in the US... The whole movie was filmed in Toronto :p
What a treat! I was so not expecting this! A reaction to my favorite movie!!
6:23 My high school was like that, although that was way back in like 2012. Certain cliques only hung out in specific areas of the school and some cliques were “rivals” with other ones.
Great reaction! But the meanest high school girls of all time? "Carrie" (1976). Oh man, that is a MUST for you two! Eventually! That is going to be a hell of a reaction when and if! /PS: You guys may never have seen Saturday Night Live, but this is (yet another) great Saturday Night Live-affiliated movie.....and we always have to thank CANADA for Saturday Night Live for it gave us, among other SNL figures, Lorne Michaels, the creator and the producer of the show, from 1975 to the present day. He even produced this movie, "Mean Girls"! And it was written and co-starring Tina Fey (former cast member and head writer of SNL), other SNL people in "Mean Girls" is the mom (Ana Gastmeyer), the principal(Tim Meadows), Amy Poehler plays the mom with the rock hard boob job...and there's at least one other that I can't remember. So please, by all means, take some national pride for "Mean Girls"! :)
I'd love a reaction to Carrie! And very true about SNL. 💕
Besides playing the Janitor, Neil Flynn also played the dad on the Middle. He was a lot like his character in this, a nice guy but kind of clueless.
The line delivery on “I will keep you here ‘till 4” SENDS me every single time. Fucking gold.
Favorite line: You GO, Glenn Coco!! 😂
I haven't read all the comments so in case it's already been said I apologize. Some fun facts.
When the guy says has your muffin been buttered, the original line was supposed to be has your cherry been popped, but they we're trying to keep from getting an R rating.
Tim Meadows , the principal, had really injured his hand in real life and contacted Tina Fey and said he would understand if she wanted to get somebody else to play the part. Of course them being friends she said no way and he still did it.
When Damien yelled " I want my pink shirt back" (one of the most remembered lines) that was totally Ad libbed! He was just supposed to drive off. Tina loved it and kept in.
Oh, and as far as " half a virgin" the only thing I can thing of is she um
... Rolled over. 😳
In my experience cliques are not that well-defined, no. There were kids who were broadly "popular", but that usually meant they were jocks (literally on some kind of sports team, usually football), cheerleaders, or just had wealthy parents. Even then it didn't mean they were all friends with each other, or necessarily wouldn't be friends with someone who wasn't of that ilk.
Ok, that intro from Simone was fantastic and just made my day!! I absolutely loved that! Thank you both for making me smile, and keep that smile for the rest of the day. Love you guys!! ♥️♥️
The principal also played the cannibal (one of Jake’s odd jail “friends”) in Brooklyn 99 if you’ve both watched it, it’s pretty far along in the series. I didn’t catch it for the longest time. It’s amazing to watch him play a wholesome principal after that 😂
I went to a small high school many moons ago, and there were a lot of cliques; but none of them were ever at war with one another. You had: preppies, jocks, shop class guys, computer guys, cheer leaders, band people, smokers, non smokers, brainiacs, et cetera; but there was cross over between groups. I don't know if they partied together, but as far as school activities went different people hung out somewhat together; and there usually weren't fights.
Lindsay Lohan was actually only 18 when she did this movie. And Amanda Seyfried was 19. Only plastics that were in there 20s was Rachel McAdams who was 26 and Lacey Charbet was 21.
Some movie recommendations:
- The Hangover
- Easy A
- Superbad
- Crazy, Stupid, Love
- The Interview
- 21 Jump Street
But less comedy based:
- The Help
- Hidden Figures
- Django Unchained
And some movies that basically revolves around Rachel Mcadams character choice type is:
- The Time Travellers Wife
- About Time
- The Notebook obv
- The Vow
- Southpaw
And some psychological thrillers:
- Prisoners
- Seven
- Zodiac
- Silence Of The Lambs
- The Usual Suspects
And some must see movies:
- The Social Network
- Any of Nolan, Tarantino, Scorsese films
- Parasite
I’d just like to say if you have already seen it and/or reacted to it then I’ll be checking it out 👍
When I was in high school there were a lot of little cliques : Jocks/Cheerleaders, Preppies, Alternative, Geeks/Nerds, and so on.
Some other groups kind of enveloped several, such as Theatre having kids from most cliques lumped in.
My son is in 11th grade now and from what I have heard over the years (as I have introduced him to several of the High School films I grew up with) a lot of those groups aren't that solid. People blend more. But that is around here. Things are different not just state to state, but even one part of a county to another things can change quite a bit.
These movies seem to try to take the most common stuff seen in various schools (even if just to a small degree) and lumped them into one school while amping it up.
The most unrealistic things in American film about high school I can think of though are.....
- Lockers. Even when I was in school there was just NO time to every use a locker.
- Showers. Like lockers, there was never time or proper facilities. SO if you have gym class first, you are hoping the damp towel and reapplying deodorant did the trick against the sweat and dirty of the class.
- Age. When I was in high school the age range was around 13-20yo, rather than 27-32yo they have these days (casting joke)
I have never got high school movies either. that could be because I'm from Australia. there were groups, you had the more popular kids, the nerdy kids, the stoners etc, but its not as if the popular kids ere popular because they were mean or anything, it was just because they were more outgoing people and all the groups would talk and interact, its not as if one area was off limits to all but one group.
I think one thing that probably helps this is most Australian schools don't have a 'cafeteria', you either brought your lunch with you or went to the canteen and to buy it. you would just sit on a seat somewhere outside around the school grounds.
not to mention I always find them weird how sexual these movies are because here high school finishes at 16, then your on to year 11-12 which for public school is quite often a completely different school with a completely different setup (students come and go as they please, no mandatory classes etc. we call it collage)
Yes in the states it was clique-y. It was more pronounced in the 80s, but still in effect while I was in middle/high school in the 90s. The "1, 3, 5" store is based on a real store from the 90s called "5, 7, 9".
When I went to high school (graduated 2009), there were cliques but more like friend groups. You would just hang out with your friends who were often into the same things that you were into. Some people were part of more than one group and would float to different tables. Middle school had the most clearly defined separations at school lunch because of the smaller population of students.
I remember seeing this in the theatre when I was 15 with my mom, two friends, and their moms. All the girls loved it and thought it was such a good representation of high school and all the moms HATED it and were pretty scandalized by the content, lol. I graduated in ‘07 and I still feel that while being slightly dramatic, it was definitely a good representation of how cliques were at the time. Just for reference, I’m from Texas and I went to a very large school. My graduating class was 1200.
My high school wasn't as extreme as this but there were definitely different "cultural" groups. People could move around in those groups depending on shared traits. Also, if you went outside to eat lunch you would have gotten detention for sure. Don't ever leave the building.
@@soulextracter some high schools in the US are probably looser but a lot of them are more like Swedish jails than Swedish schools.
Tumblr has the scene where she tells Aaron what day it is EVERYWHERE every October 3 lol. People queue the gifset months in advance.
It doubles with Fullmetal alchemist day, which is a little hilarious.
All the "mean girls" at my high school were cheerleaders. Worked with some after graduation and they weren't mean at all individually. But some of the cliques were fierce. I was in art all 4 years and art was the one class in my high school where all the cliques truly mixed. You could sit with anybody at any table. It helped that I used to be able to draw well. Used to... My favorite girls were the nerdy ones with "ugly duckling" syndrome. They were really beautiful swans underneath and hadn't realized it yet. But cliques were going strong in the 1980's. No doubt.
Easy A is hilarious and it was Emma Stones breakthrough if I remember correctly
"some women just wanna watch the world burn."
That's literally Regina's song in the musical. It's called "World Burn."
Always cracks me up that the end song in Mean Girls is the same song they end with in Mortal Kombat. Same energy I guess...
Ever since this movie I can’t ever hear “Jingle Bell Rock” without hearing the lap slap lol
Got to watch the notebook soon. You’ll see a completely different side of Rachael Mcadams. Shi made me tear up
"Some women just wanna watch the World Burn" would be just another phrase if not for the fact that in the Mean Girls' musical, the song that they sing during this bit of the play is legit World Burn 😂😂😂😂
Ten Things I Hate About You (1999) - Heath Ledger and Julia Stiles in this High School story.
"No thank you."
I laughed just as hard right now as the first time I watched this movie!
I’ve never experienced a high school that cliquey. My high school was divided into three groups because it was a magnet school for performing arts and high tech and then you had the students who this was their actual school. But even then being in the high tech program I hung out at lunch with performing arts kids, knew jocks and cheerleaders. It was nothing like this portrayal or many others in TV and movies where people would be like “Oh my god, I’m a jock or cheerleader how dare you talk to me”.
I also was a substitute for 4 of the local high schools and never noticed any of the students being that ingrained in cliques.
Can't believe you guys haven't gotten to Easy A with Emma Stone since watching this! Or the *original* "mean girls" movie: Heathers from 1988. I'll add it to Patreon too.
REgina should be studied by War GEnerals all over the world. Her ability to set social landmines and mind traps is on par with the Vietcong and their relentless campaign of guerrilla warfare. That's what truly makes REgina such a treat to watch in Mean Girls.
I'm so glad cliques weren't really a thing in my high school. I mean we had cliques and spots where everyone hung out, but a lot of the times, people just interacted with everyone in some manner.
I'm surprised you didn't mention that Rachel McAdams is Canadian. I first knew her from the absolutely brilliant Canadian TV series Slings & Arrows.
I have three outstanding movies to recommend for you:
Memento (2000)
The Usual Suspects (1995)
V for Vendetta (2005)