A couple of months ago I reported on Mean Girls, basically because I had just introduced my Gratuitous Picture policy, and this was a fine excuse for pictures. (And of course mentioning this movie again is another picture opportunity. This time I've chosen a snap of one of the boys in the movie for my lady readers.)
However, quite aside from its pictorial possibilities, it seems that it is also quite a good movie.
It certainly, according to 14-year-old Ellie Veryard, serves up many lessons about the joys of all that socialisation that home schooled kids miss out on. The heroine of Mean Girls was home schooled before then being school schooled. And I'm guessing/hoping that if this movie does well in Britain, it will get more people thinking about home schooling, simply because home schooling is an important part of the story.
It's also going to be one of the more profitable movies of the year. That kind of movie doesn't cost much to make. It cost $17m, which is less than a tenth of what something like Troy cost. It's grossed $83m in the US so far, and it will be a big hit on DVD, so Paramount will be very happy with it. Lindsay Lohan (who was also in the very successful remake of Freaky Friday last year amongst other things) is clearly the most successful of the current generation of teen starts. We will see if she manages the transition to adult star.
