“Mean Girls” celebrated its 10 year anniversary this week and it was “so fetch.”
Looking back on this I cannot believe that “Mean Girls” came out 10 years ago. I remember seeing it in theaters, and from the way people still quote it you would think it is something you could still find in theaters.
The amount of influence it has had on our current culture is insane if you think about it. In my group of friends, the sayings “on Wednesdays we wear pink,” “you can’t sit with us” and “she doesn’t even go here” are all used frequently and without any sort of hesitation.
I have seen more “Mean Girls” costumes on Halloween in past years than I can count. I even admit to dressing up with my friends to look like the Plastics one year.
A lot of clothing stores are still selling merchandise related to the film. Wet Seal had shirts that say “You Can’t Sit With Us” and Hot Topic had “I Was Personally Victimized by Regina George” shirts.
There are very few movies in my opinion that have achieved this amount of success— people of all ages enjoy it and all genders like it. It is not your normal teenage “chick flick” or “teen drama.” In the last 10 years I think I have honestly met one person who hated “Mean Girls.”
“Mean Girls” will be one of those movies that our children will be quoting in 20 years. I think that even 50 years from now this will be one of the movies from this day in age that stands out in particular— not because it is an accurate representation of people today or because it is a cinematic masterpiece, but because it is quotable, relatable and funny.
Despite some of the characters being extremely unbelievable, it really is a movie that someone can find a person to relate to.
Everybody at some point in their life has felt like an outsider, and I think that people can relate to Cady because of that— minus being accused of pushing people in front of a bus.