12-31-2015, 01:49 PM
(This post was last modified: 12-31-2015, 02:08 PM by ClaudX.
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(12-31-2015, 02:58 AM)SERIOUSLY THOUGH Wrote:(12-30-2015, 05:27 PM)ClaudX Wrote: I made myself watch Mean Girls 2. I don't know why.
I don't see how critics do it. How could somebody watch movies as bad as that?
They made a second one ?!?!
Give us the ClaudX review !
Okay, here we go.
Mean Girls 2 came out in 2011. The original came out in 2004. That long of a gap means one of two things. Either it's a series worthy to have such a large gap between movies, or it's a shitfest thrown together to capitalize on an old favorite. I'm here to tell you that the latter is true. For anyone who has seen the original Mean Girls, they know the ending gave closure to the story. The cliques matter no more. The social status of the school is no longer a heavy hierarchy, with the plastics on top. The movie ends with a scene showing "junior plastics" entering the school, and Cadie states, "And if any freshman tried to disturb that peace, well, let's just say we know how to take care of it."
Fast forward to 2011. Remember everything that happened in the original? Throw all of that out of the window, as it clearly doesn't matter anymore. The only similarities between the two movies are the facts that it's the same school and the principal is the same. None of the other character return and no events are ever referenced. The movie begins with the protagonist of the movie describing each of the cliques, something that was abolished in the original movie. How could that happen if the principal is the same exact one that had to take care of the entire burn book incident?
The plot harks back to the original, but with some twists. The protagonist is a new girl at the school, Jo Mitchell, who is a tomboy that is constantly ridiculed in shop class for being just that. The new plastics are unoriginal stereotypes. The leader, Mandi Weatherly, is the extremely popular rich girl. Hope Plotkin is the hypochondriac, who believes germs cause ugliness. And the last plastic is outrageous. Her name is Chastity. Chastity Meyer is the whore of the group, constantly hooking up with every guy. The protagonist's sidekick throughout the movie is Abby Hanover, a rich girl who happens to live directly across from the leader of the plastics. The plot is fueled by her hatred for Abby, as she always managed to one-up her when they were younger.
Like the original movie, the plastics try to recruit Jo, but she turns them down, as she prefers to hang out with Abby. This makes the leader of the plastics hate her, so she has it out for her. Long story short, Jo and Abby manage to do the same thing they did in the original movie and bring her "army of skanks" against her. However, Jo begins to become a plastic, as well. Unlike the original movie, it isn't a gradual thing, but rather an overnight change of Jo from tomboy to plastic. Once they think they've defeated the plastics, the leader manages to frame Jo, just like the original. For some reason, she challenges the leader to a game of football in order to prove that she's the best at everything. Jo has the team of underdogs, and the plastics leader doesn't. They eventually prove that the plastic was behind the incident that framed Jo, and she has to go off and do community service. They all live happily ever after and Chastity joins the abstinence club.
The end.
The tone of the movie is very strange. It feels like a Disney channel movie, with its stereotypes and horrible acting, but you are reminded that it isn't every time the movie throws in harsh language. It feels so out of place and unnecessary. It's predictable and trite. It's your average teen clique movie with a Mean Girls logo slapped onto it, making you think that you're going to get the funny experience that you had the last time.
Don't watch it. It's on Netflix, so if you wish to, you may. That would mean you're bad at taking orders.