“Mean Girls” is another dumb film about high schools. It decides to use every cliché in the book from featuring all the high school stereotypes to including some seriously risqué conversations and what dumb high school movie would be if there wasn’t some serious girl fighting going on.

In “Mean Girls”, Lindsay Lohan (“The Parent Trap”) stars as Cady Heron, who goes to school at the age of 16 after being tutored at home by her parents in Africa during previous years. When she enters the school she meets the sexuality-confused, the jocks and of course the bratty girls. Now she’s on a secret mission to find some serious dirt on these bratty girls known as ‘The Plastics’ so that she can teach them a lesson.

Here we come to easily the worst thing about this film, the characters. While they aren’t entirely dull and some offer a few brief moments of light-hearted humour such as Amanda Seyfried (“Mamma Mia!”) as one of the many bimbos this film features. I’m sorry but I don’t find paedophile teachers and obese homosexuals a great source of interest or comedy and that’s ultimately why the film fails because it is content with featuring such dull and cliché characters as this.

“Mean Girls” definitely isn’t the worst romantic comedy or high school film I’ve seen and I can see the target audience eating this one up but for me “Mean Girls” feels a lot more like it was written using a fill-in-the-blanks sheet as the script because I doubt that anything here from the romantic subplot to the bimbos is in any way unique. It has its moments and I guess Lohan isn’t too bad considering what she has to work with but I have to say I was pretty disappointed to see that this is just another by-the-books picture without an ounce of difference in it.