Happy Mean Girls Day!

Yesterday was October 3rd. Every Mean Girl alumni knows what that means – it is the annual celebration of  the day Aaron Samuels asked Cady Heron what day it was. It reminded me that I recently watched Mean Girls again, and was as always super entertained by this highly quotable, relatable, hilarious comedy.

Most Mean Girls stars (Lacey Chabert, Amanda Seyfried, Jonathan Bennett and Daniel Franzese) reunited to ask for aid to the Las Vegas shooting victims in honor of their Mean Girls Day, and I thought that was a really nice gesture.

To celebrate this annual anniversary of one of my favorite films, here is some hilarious quotes:

I feel exactly like you with regards to this film, girl who doesn’t even go here!

Janis Ian gets my feelings about people using terrible grammar and being silly while at it!

Karin, I get this question a lot!

We know, Gretchen, we know.

And lastly, some amazing and inspirational words from Kenny G.

What is your favorite Mean Girls quote?

October 4, 2017 by Natasha Categories: 2017, Movies, movies, Quotes, Thoughts, UncategorizedTags: Aaron Samuels, Africa, Amanda Seyfried, Amy Poehler, Cady Heron, Daniel Franzese, Gretchen Wieners, Jonathan Bennett, Kenny G, Lacey Chabert, Lizzy Caplan, Mark Waters, Movies, National Mean Girls Day, October 3rd, Rachel McAdams, Rajiv Surendra, Tim Meadows, Tina Fey 6 Comments

Movie Review: Bachelorette (2012)

Katie: “I don’t understand anything anyone is talking about most of the time”

Plot: Three friends are asked to be bridesmaids at a wedding of a woman they used to ridicule back in high school. (via IMDb)

Rating: 6/10

This movie was awful. I went in knowing that it wouldn’t be great, because when are movies like these ever great? But it sucked. It marginally redeemed itself within the last twenty five minutes, but the rest was a big gnashing of teeth and wishing it could get over with.

The one thing this movie really does show well is how people make weddings all about them, and never about the happy couple. Kirsten Dunst had the pleasure of portraying a horrendous self righteous woman who couldn’t even be happy the girl that had always protected her was getting a good husband because NO she had dared to get married before her elitist friend.

Bachelorette had a very common phenomenon in that movies love to have: send out hateable characters then reveal something sad about their past just to make them more lovable in the last few minutes. I’ve often discovered that an ass is an ass even if you put a shiny ribbon on it, and screenwriters can either start writing better characters or keep them hateable to the end.

The meh factor with Kirsten Dunst and Rebel Wilson was slightly offset by the charm of Lizzy Caplan and Isla Fischer in. I really enjoy Lizzy Caplan although she is not overly famous and Isla Fischer is always predictable but not bad at playing her favourite scatterbrained characters. Bachelorette’s males aren’t much better than the females –  James Marsden as the rogue playboy no one cares enough about to tell to grow up and had Adam Scott in who really seems like a douche forever and always.  I really enjoyed Kyle Bornheimer’s character Joe – perhaps the only person in the wedding party with some resemblance of a soul?

I liked this more than Bridesmaids, so that is something I guess. I just really wish that there could be a few movies that don’t portray women as nasty, insincere friends who take no accountability for themselves or their actions.

Recommendation: NO (well, maybe if you’re high this might be funny)

November 26, 2014November 22, 2014 by Natasha Categories: Movies, ReviewsTags: Adam Scott, Isla Fischer, James Marsden, Kristen Dunst, Kyle Bornheimer, Lizzy Caplan, Movies, Rebel Wilson, Reviews, Series 4 Comments