Mean Girls

Fey does not take the book too seriously, finding plenty of cruel humour in the bitchy battles between Cady and Regina.

One of the movie's achievements is persuading the audience to stay firmly in Cady's camp during her odyssey of self-discovery.

This teen comedy is terrific. Superbly scripted by Saturday Night Live head writer Tina Fey, it explores the viciously divisive cliques that render the American high school a virtual battleground.

Mean Girls offers an enjoyably mean-spirited spin on a subject that most other recent movies... have treated as sacrosanct.

It comes on strong with sharp, biting wit and great energy, then runs out of steam and doesn't know when to call it quits.

One or two good acerbic jokes apart, Mean Girls isn't mean at all.

The film’s relevancy has stood the test of time with not only its iconic quotes just at the tips of our tongues, but because the team behind it crafted something truly special with its snappy script and prolific performances.

Mean Girls features certain elements that do not stand the test of time, but the parts of it that sparkled most in 2004 still shine just as bright.

Tina Fey, who also plays Cady's maths teacher, has packed the screenplay with enough barbed one-liners to ensure that, as high-school comedies go, Mean Girls is near the top of the class.

This wickedly funny, dead-on portrait of teen cruelty is leavened by an amusingly executed plea for human kindness and non-conformity.