Mean Girls' vs. 'Mean Girls 2'

Mean Girls vs. Mean Girls 2

I’m sure almost everyone has seen the very popular and very successful movie Mean Girls, starring Lindsay Lohan as a high school girl trying to adjust to a new school and make new friends along the way. She has just moved from Africa and is starting at a brand new school. She becomes friends with two different friend groups, “The Plastics”, and “The Losers”. Cady is in constant battle with trying to please both groups and make everyone, including herself, happy. On the other hand, a sequel came out years later, Mean Girls 2. This movie had the same idea as did the first film. A girl named Jo is the new girl at North Shore High. She is totally against “The Plastics” and the drama that comes along with them. So she

Actors that are more well-known can create publicity and popularity for a movie that a newer and not so well-known actor doesn’t have the power to achieve. That was definitely the case with the Mean Girls series. The original Mean Girls movie casted numerous well-known and famous Hollywood actors to be in the film, unlike the second movie which stared very new and young actors who didn’t have their names out their yet. Lindsay Lohan was the lead role in the first movie, and I believe her being the main character contributes highly to the film’s success. Lohan had previously stared in The Parent Trap, Freaky Friday, and Just My Luck. All of which are very well known movies. Lohan is also a popular model, singer and songwriter. Another main role in the prequel was Rachel McAdams. McAdams stared in the movies About Time, The Notebook, and Wedding Crashers. Next off is Tina Fey, she is a very popular actress and comedian who has been in many films and shows such as, Sisters, Baby Mama, The Muppets, Date Night, and Saturday Night Live. Mean Girls 2 had actors casted such as Meaghan Martin, who’s only big movie she had ever been in was Camp Rock. Also, Jennifer Stone, who had appeared in Harriet the Spy, and Wizards of Waverly Place. The actors that are chosen really affect the outcome of the entire movie. Plus, almost the entire cast of

The main reason behind people enjoying movies is because of the character. The audience also will not be interested if the movies are too far apart, for example, the Mean Girls movies were seven years apart, making the audience question why there was even another movie made with different plots. The first movie made more money and had higher ratings and reviews which makes it memorable due to the slang terms/phrases used in this movie that are still used to this day. In the second movie, there was a totally different plot taking place that had nothing to do with the first movie. In the first movie, fashion was a different decade which made the fashion different in the second one because of it being a different time in society. All of these reasons prove my thesis, that the first Mean Girls movie is phenomenal film in comparison to the sequel which was a big