00s Movie Review - Mean Girls

Director: Mark Waters
Genre: Comedy
Runtime: 97 minutes
Year: 2004
Starring: Lindsay Lohan, Rachle McAdams, Amanda Seyfried, Lacey Chabert, Tiny Fey, Tim Meadows, Amy Poehler, Lizzy Caplan, Johnatan Bennett

Description: Cady Heron (Lindsay Lohan) is a hit with The Plastics, the A-list girl clique at her new school until she makes the mistake of falling for Aaron (Jonathan Bennett), the ex-boyfriend of alpha Plastic Regina George (Rachel McAdams).

Review: “Mean Girls” is the ultimate high school survival guide that remains razor sharo more than twenty years later.

Casy Heron has lived in Africa with her parents and has always been home schooled. She has never experiences life at an actual high school, until they move back to America. Here she learns that there are several different cliques in high-school. The most important one: The Plastics, led by Regina George.
Tina Fey’s script transforms the teen genre into a clever satire full of iconic one-liners that have become part of our collective memory.

Lindsay Lohan is at her best as the naïve Cady, but Rachel McAdams steals the show as the terrifying Regina George. The film brilliantly (and painfully) exposes the social hierarchy and the ‘girls’ world without even losing its humor. It is colorful, witty and surprisingly relatable for anyone who has survived high school.

One of the better teen comedies of the 00s.

Rating: 4/ 5

100 Movie Challenge 2016 - # 157: Black Christmas

Director: Glen Morgan
Genre: Horror/ Thriller
Runtime: 84 minutes
Year: 2006
Starring: Katie Cassidy, Michelle Trachtenberg, Mary Elizabeth Winstead, Lacey Chabert, Andrea Martin, Oliver Hudson, Kristen Cloke, Crystal Lowe, Karin Konoval, Dean Friss, Robert Mann, Jessica Harmon, Leela Savasta, Kathleen Kole, Cainan Wiebe

Description: An escaped maniac returns to his childhood home on Christmas Eve, which is now a sorority house, and begins to murder the sorority sisters one by one.

Review: When he was younger, Billy killed his family. Now he is improisoned and tries to escape every year around Christmas. His goal is to return to his childhood home and celebrate Christmas there. He never managed to escape, until this Christmas. The house Billy used to live, now belongs to a sorority. The girls celebrate Christmas there, when all of a sudden they receive strange phone calls. From Billy, who warns the students he is going to kill them.
“Black Christmas” is a remake of the 1974 horror classic. The runtime of this film is short, which is perfect for a film like this. The story starts immediately and the tempo is high. But this also has a down side. The characters are very one dimensional, even the killer. You really don’t care who lives or dies, in fact almost every girl in this sorority house is unlikeable. And when they die, they die in the same way. No originality there.
“Black Christmas” is a disposable and forgettable horror flick.

Rating: 1,5/ 5

100 Movie Challenge 2014 - # 106: Scarecrow

Director: Sheldon Wilson

Genre: Horror

Runtime: 86 minutes

Year: 2013

Starring: Lacey Chabert, Richard Harmon, Nicole Muñoz, Robin Dunn, Brittney Wilson, Julia Maxwell, Iain Belcher, Kevin O’Grady, Reilly Dolman

Description: For generations, it was an urban legend that lived in the nightmares of children. Now, the season to rejuvenate the tale will revive a town's darkest fears. With the Scarecrow Festival on the horizon, school teacher Aaron Harris (Richard Harmon) is doling out punishment for six students serving detention. Their task: help Aaron's ex-girlfriend Kristen (Lacey Chabert) fix her family farm before it's sold. But the cornfields circling the farm come with a legend-and Tyler takes macabre delight in recounting the tale: It never sleeps, it never dies, it can't be stopped, hear their cries. The Scarecrow lives to kill us all. Keep it buried in the fall...

Review: Sometimes there is this horror movie that, when you read its synopsis, you know your expectations are low. But there are also times that you’re just in the mood for a bad horror movie. If you’re looking for that, “Scarecrow” is the right movie.

A teacher is driving six of his student to a farm, where they have to help fix it before it’s sold, as part of their detention. The cornfield comes with a legend: the scarecrow has killed people. Off course no one believes it, until it is actually happening.

I actually got what I expected: bad acting, cheesy and unintelligent dialogues, stereotypes and a lot of clichés. “Scarecrow” isn’t scary at all. When I’m watching a horror movie, I’m always on edge, because I scare easily. Not once did it scare me, not once! Well, to me that’s a bad horror movie. But a different kind of bad, because other bad scary films entertain you at least because it’s so silly. “Scarecrow” takes itself way too seriously.

“Scarecrow” is not worth your time.

Rating: 0,5 / 5