 Saturday Night Live 's Tina Fey might well have a hit on her hands, judging by the critical reaction to Mean Girls, which she wrote. "In a wasteland of dumb movies about teenagers, Mean Girls is a smart and funny one," Roger Ebert writes in the Chicago Sun-Times. Ann Hornaday in the Washington Post describes it as "smart, funny, well-acted and visually lively." Bruce Westbrook in the Houston chronicle concludes: "From script to performances, everything works here, like, totally." The film is produced by SNL's Lorne Michaels, who has not had much luck of late in capitalizing on his stable of talented TV comics at the box office. But Elvis Mitchell in the New York Times observes that Mean Girls is "one of the few films that Lorne Michaels ... can be proud of," while Karen Heller in the Philadelphia Inquirer observes: "Mean Girls will most likely appeal to viewers with more body fat than its target audience. It's really for twentysomethings and older who have survived high school and were weaned on SNL and the less gentle humor of Animal House." |
