Mean Girls Movie Review

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The movie I chose was Mean Girls. Mean girls is about Cady, a teenager that moved to the U.S from Africa and never attended public schools before. Being home schooled her whole life Cady was known as an outcast the first few days of school. Until a group of “popular” girls recognized Cady was and saw that she had potential to hang out with them so they invited her to eat lunch with them. There were three girls in this “popular” group, Regina, Gretchen, and Karen. The group of girls had rules and regulations for sitting with them at the lunch table. Cady hung out with these girls for a while and started to act and talk like them. She eventually betrayed her first friends that she met at school and got involved with a lot of drama with a lot

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