Seriously. Like "not allowed to be feminine AND tough wooooow"... 🥴 It pisses me off that basically all the Disney actors I like are in this movie. Sigh
I remember when I watched this movie, sounded like disney channel made it own Mean Girls version, there is even former disney actors on this movie... and I kinda feel bad for them. . . Sorry my rusty english
*intimidating. Also, I agree. Plus, their clothes make them look like 40 year old women and doesn't look like anything any teens I know would really wear.
the first mean girls was a perfect example of how teenage girls ACTUALLY act and how they set themselves apart in high school in an effort to be "cool." the second one just feels like every other teen romcom written by a guy in his 50s who never spoke to a teenage girl a day in his life and remembers nothing about high school
@@morgianasartre6709 as a kid I wanted to be like Jo and other characters who were “edgy, tough, tomboys”. But now that I’m older and wiser I realized that they are just internally misogynistic brats. This isn’t to bash all girls who are tomboys or alternative. I just dislike girls who think their interests make them better than other people
I love how ironic it is how Jo is saying don’t be sexist yet actively being sexist toward her own gender. Like saying that you should “settle this like men” and using a football match as a way to settle things is both sexist toward men and women. Not every man plays football and not every women is “weak”, at least that’s how she implied it.
Fun fact: did you know that Jo isn't like other girls? It's really subtle, but if you watch the movie closely, you'll pick up the subtle clues they drop.
Remember in Mean Girls 1 where Janice was an "alternative girl" but she was just as bitchy and rude as the girly popular girls? That's a realistic high school character if I've ever seen one.
Yeah, that's what I like about Mean Girls, was that no character was discernibly "evil" or "good", they were real people who make mistakes, it's just that some make more mistakes than others. Janis is awful, but in a different way compared to Regina, and the film actually makes you feel bad for the villains, whereas in Mean Girls 2, the characters are so stereotypical and unsympathetic that you hate everyone just about equally.
@@anoaboadosaro well if we was to get into specifics everybody would be unique since we all think differently since we all have different experiences and so will react differently to different situations. Even if the difference is small its still a difference therefore it makes you unique.
Jeah I watched it on Netflix before they removed it and it was so terrible that I slowly lost faith (I knew it never would be as good as the original but at least expected something) until the "war" which was so ridiculous I shut of my TV and screamed "I can't" and never touched it again...
Watched all these kinds of movies when I was like 6. I felt so bad because I was basically one of 'the other girls' so I tried to change myself a lot. Even now, it's a mentality it's taken me a long time to change it. The 'I'm not like other girls mindset SUCKS
@@cm9666 YES, the quirky girl media needs to die, it doesnt make girls feel ok with liking other things, it makes them ashamed to like “girly” things and to not be who they really are and its shit
Kady- A normal girl with some kind of personality, relatable flaws, and actually likeable as a main character Jo- I'M not like those other popular girls, I carve wood, and CARS, amirite? So obviously I'm MUCH better
This movie would have been so much better if it turned out that jo was actually just a lesbian and she loved Mandy and her internalized misogyny is actually internalized homophobia in disguise. Still could have sucked but the most important issue would be instantly fixed
Not to mention that Cady became a Plastic over time and unintentionally - she was so caught up with taking Regina down that she hadn’t realised she had not only pushed Regina out, but taken her place. In my opinion, one of the best scenes in the original is where Janis is arguing with Cady from Damian’s car during the house party and confronts her with the fact that she has become the type of person she so viscerally disliked. Even with the habit of lying to everyone for her own gain, even with the turning the Plastics against each other, and even dressed in pink with huge hoop earrings and a cute heart necklace, Cady doesn’t realise the fact that her whole attitude and personality has been influenced and changed for the worst until Janis, her former friend, tells it right to her face: “You are a _Mean Girl,_ Cady! You’re a _bitch!”_ This works flawlessly in the movie’s favour because at the start of the movie we’ve seen that Cady is just a quiet, shy, very intelligent but most of all genuinely kind, nice and caring girl - Janis infects her with the idea of sabotaging Regina until she spirals out of control, effectively becoming the new Regina. We see the growth, we feel the change. In this movie, however, Jo goes from “not like the other girls, internalised misogyny, pickme one-of-the-boys” to dyed hair and using boys to hurt the Plastics. (Granted I have not seen the second movie, only this video from Alex Meyers, so bear with me.) We don’t experience her evolution, we don’t notice her corruption from a normal person into a dog-eat-dog alpha female because she was never that normal in the first place - she made a point of being different. Not to mention one of the movie’s biggest fails was preaching for gender equality only to undermine itself using its main character as a token of misogyny - pitting girls against each other!
I remember bits and pieces here and there, I watched it once and the only scene I could probably tell you about is that scene where everyone was wearing paint stained clothes because Jo was wearing paint stained clothes. I think that's the only scene in this movie that was kinda okay
That bullied girls parents: money wont solve her problems. Also the bullied girls parents: Lets pay this teenager to be her friend so she feels better and solves her friends.
@@loserme414 came here to say this. I don't think her mom knew, I think that's why she welcomed her in with open arms the way she did, she had no idea and if she had she would've been very upset
She's apparently the most bullied person in their school. Plus she doesn't have friends. As if superficial teenagers will harass the richest kid in school.
Honestly I’ll never understand why they didn’t call the cops after Mandy and friends destroyed her dads engine. Like trespassing is probably the first thing they’d get charged with, and there’s a shit ton of witnesses in the coffee shop when she confessed to the whole thing
I feel like the “I’m not like other girls” trope could have been used so much better than it was here. Like they could have made it to where jo realized that other girls aren’t as bad as she was making them out to be and made a good story around that
I hate the whole "I'm not like other girls" thing....... 1 It kinda sounds like you are saying that other girls are all alike...... 2 yes you are cause there is a whole group of girls who say the same.....
@@cm9666 I usually find away to disagree with anything that has something to do with girls/women being did wrong....but I agree with this.....btw I am a girl.....if that first part made you wonder....
I love how Hollywood acts like a girl raised by her dad will obviously be a tom boy and be able to build a vehicle from scratch by the time she's 12 smh.
I’ve met a single dad with two daughters, and he taught them basic domestic work/choirs, making them his little women. We often saw him taking his daughters to Girl Scouts, and they were the most behaved ones there. Not all dads raise tomboys. (Though I’m not going to lie that my own father tried getting me into/buying me boyish stuff cause he wasn’t satisfied with two daughters and desperately wanted a son…)
That’s like saying “Single moms often raise boys that become reliant on their moms so all of them can’t do anything and want to date someone like their mom.” We know it’s not true. But how can we get mad at single dads with girls and in the same breath praise single moms with boys? Single parenting is hard. Everyone get the fuck over it. Stop thinking all dads are bad parents and only moms can raise opposite sex kids right 😂 like yes. There’s benefits to being raised by an opposite sex parent. Being raised by a single dad meant for me, I knew how to protect myself, because he taught a us, he taught us how to load weapons and weapon safety, and he didn’t care if I wore men’s clothes or girls clothes or mix and matched.
literally "screw being ladies and screw being girls...we're gonna settle this like men" like what? What is this show trying to say to a young female audience?!
I swear I hate the trope in teen movies where the adults won't lift a finger to do anything while the main character is getting mercilessly bullied and pranked, but as soon as they get tired of it and want to kick some ass, the adults spawn in like GTA cops
“Settling this like men”= Football game??? I kinda think the “manly” way would have been a fistfight in the second act and then everyone has beers together by the end.
Exactly, my high school was basically boys only, we would fight a lot but by the end of the day we would make up, apologize and are still friends after half a decade
@@Abba_Fan Straight facts👍 Most people aren’t just evil jerks out to ruin everyone’s good time. They just need a good bop to the mouth to cut the bullshit.
@@Tyler171819 exactly, kids don't really understand the weight of words, the talking only becomes effective once they age a bit, like after graduating I don't think I have had a single fight in 6 years, most of my problems were solved by talking with the other person
The most annoying part of the movie for me was when Mandi threw her dog in the bin??? Hello?? I know that Mean Girls wasn't realistic but it still made SENSE majority of the time
Regina George had a certain truth to her character with her rage, her worrying home life and her subtle micro-aggressions and manipulations. Mandy is just a Saturday morning cartoon villain. A BAD Saturday morning cartoon villain. Also: Regina was fun, compelling and mildly terrifying to watch; and I just want to sit on Mandy's face every time she starts speaking.
I would say "well maybe he's a bad mechanic" but that's how a lot of mechanics make a living 😭u go in like "my brake is weird" and leave with 10 other "issues" that need to be fixed or something else "coincidentally" off
I'm perplexed how they could attempt to make a movie with a "feminist" message while being so blatantly misogynistic at the same time. The movie is absolutely hateful towards anything feminine and does nothing but make a mockery of teen girls unless they act more masculine. So ironic and ridiculous
“It’s like a bad Disney Channel movie.” Accurate considering 4 of the 5 main characters are former Disney Channel actresses. And the other was on Nickelodeon 😂
This really does feel like the worst of Disney Channel and your typical (bottom-of-the-barrel) Nickelodeon show/movie (no pun intended on Nickelodeon Movies, btw)! After all, subsidiaries of The Walt Disney Company (ABC Family) and Viacom (Paramount Famous/Home Entertainment and Nickelodeon overplaying Mean Girls 2 over the original on their godforsaken network) both had it!
@@kieranstark7213 Paramount pretty much produced and distributed the film while Disney pretty much just aired the film on ABC Family (now called Freeform) and had no involvement on the film whatsoever. So it’s technically a film by Paramount that Disney picked up the rights to air it on their network.
@@kieranstark7213 not really tho. Just because Viacom owns Paramount and Nickelodeon doesn’t mean it’s a Nickelodeon movie since it appeals to be a teen movie with PG-13 content that Nickelodeon wouldn’t really air. It probably must’ve aired on Nick at Nite (their late night block similar to Adult Swim on Cartoon Network) if that’s what your saying.
Yeah, makes sense, I guess that’s the closest MG2 would get to being part of Nickelodeon by an objective standpoint. Then again, same could be said about so many other sequels that fail at being them and remakes that exist to fix what wasn’t even broken!
Mean Girls: a subtle look at the bullying and toxicity characterizing the relationships between teen girls with a wholesome message about self-acceptance and kindness; Mean Girls 2: just misogyny :|
@@cindigonzalez7350 yeah, but it's also hella misogynistic. the entire movie jo goes "girls bad, boys good." basically saying if you like pink and dressing up, you won't amount to anything in life. but if you like cars and football, you've got your life made.
I love how the whole school staff ignores the fact that jo is supposed to be in jail and expelled at the same time because she challenged mandi to a football game
"Not like most girls" is just a toxic cliche that movies still serve to pit girls against one another. By saying that, you lump most girls into some lump stereotype and say that you not adhering to that makes you special and better. Instead of actually embracing self confidence and uniqueness. Utter BS.
Exactly. By putting other women down like that, it just furthers the idea that women are a monolith. All girls are the same, the only way we can be complex autonomous people with minds of our own is OBVIOUSLY by shitting on other women and acting "more masculine," right? Just a nasty narrative.
@@broneedstoshutup I am so sorry that happened to you... That's really trashy of them to judge you over the preferance tbh, And I hope they are either not in your life rn or they have changed their outlook on things. I hope you enjoy your style and you find people who will appreciate and accept that and even if they don't, that's what you like, F- their opinion 😤. You are gorgeous and amazing the way you are, And you should only change your style when you want to, as it's totally your choice... 💖
Nah it's not just you. I never heard of it either (and I loved the original mean girls) I think most people just pretend it doesn't exist (or something like that) :))
It depends. Went to high school in most of the southeast and college in Louisiana and Georgia and EVERYONE had cars. Typically if you don't live in a large city with lots of Public transportation, you have a car. At least in the states.
im european and here people get their driving license when they are 18 so very few people actually drive to school and only last year, like in my class half of the people were trying out for the driving exam but also some didnt pass it, some didnt have cars, only licenses, some's parents didnt let them drive alone, some lived on a walking distance...
@@Orion_TheyThem Live in Texas and can confirm about a majority of students in the South having cars. Our high school does offer bus transportation, but usually athletic and band kids have to arrive earlier than everybody else so they usually have cars. There’s also driving off campus to get to different buildings for different classes, events or leaving early to get home. edit: would also like to add that in Texas, you can get your permit by age 15 and I think your license.
My high school was primarily rich kids and everyone that didn’t come from my neighborhood (the low-income students) had a car by the time they were 16 and had their license.
Wasn't the whole point of Mean Girls that the main character was a fish out of water? Having this girl a regular attendee of countless High School (and literally too cool for school) makes no sense.
Cady: a character with an interesting and unique upbringing, relatable flaws, a strong character arch, who is neither “good” nor “bad” but simply a regular girl making mistakes as she navigates a new environment at a young age, portrayed by the gifted talent that is Lindsay Lohan. Jo: I’m not like other girls so I’m good. Popular girly girls are BAD. Pick me tho cause I do wood shop and fix cars!!!!
The whole movie irritated me, but 2 things stuck out: 1) In what world would a rich girl like Abby be hated by the entire school? Even if she wasn’t necessarily popular, wouldn’t she at least have a few friends and kinda fly under the radar? 2) I can’t believe this movie had the mean girls committing crimes. Regina, Gretchen, and Karen were mean, but they never broke the law.
and the main conflict between Abby and Mandi was the fact that,,, Abby's family had more money? Like how did Mandi find out, google their net worth??? Because Abby got better things for her bdays??? Sorry girlie maybe it's not the money but your parents idk...
honestly, I'm pretty naive and stuff and I usually dislike quite a few people as long as they're ''evil'' but even though Regina, Gretchen, and Karen weren't the nicest people I didn't find myself really disliking them that much for some reason however I really didn't like the ones in that movie that much-
When the main character said, “I challenge you to a football game” That’s where I lost it, she gotta say that to the girl. Just to prove that she isn’t like other girls, and she just wants to impress the boys. Nothing special about that,
I think that is what happens when middle age men try to do a teen girl movie XD . . . .nitifications disabled to ignore ignorant people, and sorry my rusty english
A virgin? In HIGHSCHOOL? Say it isn't so! What are you gonna tell me next: there are old people in retirement homes? (seriously though most highschoolers are literally children. I know she's 18? But even then what's the rush lol)
@@labaker4285 At the elementary school,middle school and high school ...they cared if you were a virgin or not. Bullied you if your body count was lower than 2. I happened to live in a suburban/city area.
i just hate how nonsensical this movie is- the first mean girls yes has over the top scenes like regina having cut up nipple tops or the girls fighting in the hallways but you understood it was part of the world, the girls were mean and dramatic but also real. this movie has them riding motorcycles into school and slapping trays of food into their faces and making their parents loose jobs in an all out war…. hell the plot revolves around paying girls to be friends. it’s just not relatable in the slightest yet they slap the “ not like other girls “ narrative and vague themes from the original to try and market it. I just… i hate this movie💀
To be honest, both Mean Girls movies for me were bad. Both of them were bad because there were SO MANY stereotypes. Both had the idea that "girl world" is just about gossiping and that "girl clique" is toxic. The second one had stereotypes on girls' and boys' and what they "generally do". The second one also had the 'I'm not like other girls' attitude. In my opinion, the second one was better just because it was less inappropriate and less romance-involved. The first one was SO romantic and all of that stuff. However, as a sequel, it was SO BAD. The second one was also a little more intriguing for me than the first one. The first one did have a good ending though, where all the girls changed paths instead of the Plastics being continued. The first one also had a better plot than the second one, but I HATE how it has as usual, Halloween stuff going on.
@@emeraldnighthawk4733 the girl world is super toxic. the first mean girls had it right, i think. in my experience, nearly girl is in a clique. idk if you’re like popular or something so maybe ur not self aware, but girls are awful. my own “friends” are constantly talking about eachother behind their backs.
@@emeraldnighthawk4733 are you dense? The first movie is a critique on those stereotypes. It’s entirely satirical. The only valid criticism on stereotypes that I can think of in the first one is that it’s kinda racist.
Tess from Camp Rock, Harper from Wizards of Waverly Place, the dad from Teen Wolf and Rebecca from the Vampire Diaries...what? I don't remember the cast being like this.
“It’s like a bad Disney Channel movie.” pretty much with 4 of the 5 main characters played by former Disney Channel actresses and the movie premiered on ABC Family a TV channel owned by Disney.
Mean Girls 2: Okay, we are against sexism. Also Mean Girls 2: "I'm not like other girls!" "Let's not settle this like girls, we settle this like men." They just further perpetuate to the issue than overcoming it.
@@kieranstark7213 Almost all moves seem to be that way now. Men are depicted as evil, or they're bumbling, incompetent idiots. Women run the show, women comprise most of the characters, women do everything they can to make the men look weak and ineffective at everything, and yet there is no character growth. Their entire personality is "see how strong and brave I am." One of many reasons why movies suck.
@@ElveeKaye Nickelodeon has been doing that for years with Schneider’s Bakery shows which people just love to defend because of nostalgia, Butch Hartman shows (in The Fairly OddParents, they treated Timmy Turner like the bad guy every time he tried to run away from girls staking him (romantically or platonically) from Tootie to Vicky to Trixie Tang to Chloe Carmichael to Mrs. Turner to Wanda), Nickelodeon Movies (The Last Airbender, Playing With Fire, the kid-2010s Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles duology, Fun Size (I have a theory that every time Nickelodeon cast Victoria Justice in stuff, it was a way to originally cast Jennette McCurdy as the same characters she would play just to shut her out as much as ever until they make Sam Puckett the new protagonist of Victorious after Tori Vega in Sam & Cat), Hey Arnold: The Movie (Hey Arnold! could be one of the least as Nickelodeon shows… whenever it does the right things like have emotional encounters between Arnold and some adults… but then comes Helga Pataki with her obsessive crush on him and nobody trying to stop it and think that if he did it, everyone, even Helga herself, would think he’s the rapist) and the Rugrats trilogy (the show and the movies, though the seconds, All Grown Up and Rugratsbin Paris, would have to be the best of the worst)
As a girl I HATED this movie because Jo was so called calling out sexism when she had internalized misogyny herself by always thinking that girls were beneath her or thinking they were all back stabbers and then the whole "Do I look like most girls?" is so annoying like girl just because ur into mechanics and engineering it doesn't mean anything I know A LOT of girls that are into that.. Regina was actually ICONIC because of the things she said and how differently she would get ppl back THEN Jo goes "Screw being ladies and screw being girls" then proceeded to saying "Lets settle this like men" she wants to fit in with guys so bad its pathetic and embarrassing
The thing is they could've really made the plot interesting. Like Jo has been to many schools and she's seen these "girls rules" many time, thinking she's above them so instead of trying to have her own group of friends she'd try to just fit with the guys or something?? But then realises she's just as bad as the girls?? I don't know it's such a shame cause seems like they originally had a good plot idea and they could've dig in it deeper but the execution was absolute shit. It's just about girls acting like they're in primary school to bully each other...
Villainizing stereotypically feminine qualities (such as wearing dress, liking the colour pink, being interested in fashion or make-up) is textbook internalized misogyny.
@@ihvojd Exactly! No wonder pick-mes evolved from that, when they are told over and over to be “feminine” and to like “ feminine things” is bad and/or lesser.
I get where you're coming from ,but dude this sounds like you copied and pasted . 😑 I don't really think it's misogyny , these kinds of girls are the ones that bullied the misfits , which is why it appears so often in books etc .
Cady in the first one actually kinda wasn’t “like other girls” but she didn’t know it or proclaim it, it wasn’t painted as making her better than anyone, nor was it relatable. It just put her in a position to be confused and manipulated, become like the mean girls more easily, and frame the movie with a wild animal analogy.
yeah like she was homeschooled so she didnt know any better, which made sense. she never downplayed any other girls and had a pretty positive perspective about everyone at the school (i mean, until all the shit happened)
She’s less “not like other girls” and more “not like other kids/students,” because she has never been a regularly schooled student. I also always really liked how she appreciates everything, girls included, when she first gets there.
She wasn't exactly "not like other girls", she just wasn't like anyone, because she had never really been around kids her age in a school setting. She didn't know any of the rules, and was unfamiliar with the customs.
Right? So many iconic feminist lines like the one about why girls need to stop calling eachother sluts and whores. Meanwhile this movie is full of casual slut shaming
Honestly i think mandi is both more malicious and more pathetic. Regina would never get someones parents fired because she doesnt like them, she has more class and more power than that. Mandi resorts to the most nuclear option because no one will take her seriously any other way
I hate this “most girls” bullshit that every Netflix teen movie or most teen movies has surrounding it. Seriously, every girl is unique. They have their own personality. You can’t just group them into being nice or mean or ugly or pretty. Being different from other girls is exactly what you’re supposed to be. So being quirky isn’t a superior trait. It’s just a trait... Also wow, first time I got so many likes! Definitely made my day. Thanks everyone 😁
@UCby-ZuC7DOb_s65YR4fiI9w Maybe back then trashing on the "popular pretty girls" was a good way to make gender norms commentary. However, now I think it's extremely backfired and society is at the point in which being feminine just isn't ok? Like God forbid a girl can be smart pretty and confident. It's like in all these stupid movies a girl can't just be all three, she had to be one or the other. Also, the fact that the unique girls (aka tomboys) are given so much spotlight defeats the purpose of attempting to make them the norm. If you're a tomboy that shouldn't be a big deal, who actually cares? These kinds of movies also pin women against each other which to me personally is kind of disgusting and out dated.
"It just feels like a bad community theatre production of a play written by auto correct..." *That is strangely specific, but also completely accurate.*
One of the things I loved about the first mean girls was that they showed that Regina really wasn’t all that bad, just got caught up in the wrong crowd. They killed off Mandy like she was the evil queen at the end of a princess movie
Dude yes. Regina would NEVER get someones parents fired or frame them for robbery, or post a video “exposing” them as a virgin lol what. The girls kept the book secret because they knew how bad it was and would never say those things to the people in question. It was fucked up of them to do it but like the worst they did was write that some girl is ugly (cady wrote the drug dealer thing so i dont blame regina for that)
and the pincipal's actor is the same, they also made like 1 reference to the original /it was something like how teachers are not allowed to be alone with students, since that one girl had an affair with the pe teacher in the first one/
I think that is what happens when middle age men try to do a teen girl movie... . . . .nitifications disabled to ignore ignorant people, and sorry my rusty english
The annoying thing with these school movies is that the "loser girl" would be the coolest person at a real school. If u showed up with a leather jacket and bike... u would be viewed as pretty damn awesome lol
"Do I look like most girls?" Yes, Jo, yes you do. Even in 2011, that is what most girls wore 😑 and acted like 🙄 she really thinks that she's the only girl in the world who likes cars and can build things 😂😂😂
The most jarring part of this movie was that the cuts between shots in the same scene never lined up. Alex managed to capture a few of those moments. In the shop class scene it looks like she straight up teleported closer and then farther away.
I'm more confused as to how the writers considered this a Sequel despite having nothing to do with the Original. The Point of a Sequel is to expand upon the groundwork that the Original laid out. They would have been more accurate to label this as a Reboot.
what I like about Cady's character is that she is incredibly good in maths, and she doesn't dress too feminine, but not once did I see her have "that not like other girl energy"
She didn’t have the social awareness to have that “not like other girls” vibe, which is why she was the perfect person to tear down the toxic system by experiencing it firsthand.
Exactly! When writing (a film or a book or something) the casual rule is "show not tell" Basically, show the character is not like other girls, not physically tell the audience Cady did this well by liking maths and not dressing femininely Whereas Jo literally said "do I look like other girls?" which is just stupid lol
Milasia Cady was also useless at recognising social cues because this was her first experience of being in a regular high school, which we saw in action. This extends to her parents, who don’t collectively grasps what grounded means.
@@jbcatz5 that's actually a good point, but I also observed that the people around her didn't give her that "new girl treatment" none of them treated her any differently just because she was a new girl who was incredibly good at maths. While in Jo's case it was extremely cringey cos once she did arrive at the school, she was immediately the "badass girl who loves black and knows how to ride bikes".
False. Its a line used to falsely make a female MC look relatable. If they were Gothic, punk, or emo, it would fit. NOTHING to do with this imaginary connection to feminism or misogyny.
I love how the movie just ignores what happened in the original. The sequel was an insult to the original, the original was actually so iconic. Edit: apparently wearing leather jackets and black boots makes you different from ‘other girls’
I hate how in high school movies they always think that never having a boyfriend, first kiss and or being a virgin is a bad thing. At least in my high school experience, people were actually shamed if they weren’t virgins or had different boyfriends . Like be realistic here.
@@ToriTheDormouse yup exactly! I went to a school with over 2,000+ people and I barely knew half of the schools population because I didn’t have time nor did I care too. I was living in my own world and just wanted to graduate.
One of the biggest things about mean girls is that they were passive aggressive, they weren't visibly mean to people so that they could maintain their rep. They played mind games and pitted one another against each other. Not just some lame Disney plotline of the new 'cool tomboy' vs the popular girls
@David Hernandez That's just the word used to describe prejudice against women. That doesn't mean that all men are misogynistic. Some women can be misogynistic, too. Like the whole "not like other girls" trope. Which is what this movie was going for. I don't even know who made the movie nor do I care what sex they are. I was criticizing the movie, not men.
@David Hernandez I never said we are oppressed. I don't consider myself a victim and hate that kind of mentality. I think you've misunderstood something and are way too emotionally invested to listen to reason. Idk why you're talking about slavery and stuff, you're going way off tangent. All I was saying was that the movie sucked. I suggest you try to cool off a bit.
The original mean girls was mean but they did mostly psychologically shit but this movie is filled with stuff that would definitely count as actual crimes…
“I don’t like girls because they judge and are mean to others for being different. And *I’M* not ~like other girls~ because I’ve internalized misogyny so much that I hate other girls. But also, ew I’m judging and disliking those girls because they’re different from me, and they like fashion and makeup, and that’s bad.”
@S. Storumus Having mostly guy friends isn’t internalized misogyny. It becomes that when you have guy friends because “girls are too messy” or because you want to disassociate yourself from what’s perceived to be girly so that’s why you hang out with mostly guys. But hanging out with mostly guys because they’re good friends and have good personalities is not internalized misogyny.
@@_kittyh3lloI also think that som of the girls who “are just friends with the guys, doesn’t have any girl friends” is kinda dodge too. It means that other woman don’t trust her so you could be right. I’m just sick of hearing terms like “misogyny” getting thrown around tbh
@@s.storumus8620 I'm also sick of people acting all outraged when the term is used correctly. Since it's thrown around so much, you should have no trouble finding actual examples to complain about.
@@labaker4285 Good. You deserve real friends, people who are going to stick with you for a very long time. You'll make friends eventually, try putting yourself out there, try talking to those who have similar interests as you. :)
In the original movie, it was shown that the heroine was sick of the girl backstabbing, instead of saying it I'm losing my remaining brain cells with this sequel 😂😭
"Ignore the pigtails. I was more naive back then"
Code for "I'm not like other girls, I'm a cool girl"
So in other words ignore Marinette. Got it!
@@FeligamiAdrizoeSworaDooplivian lmao
It's extra dumb bc that's on a shot where she is working with her dad on a car. Wearing her hair like that is something she was supposed to do!
Seriously. Like "not allowed to be feminine AND tough wooooow"... 🥴
It pisses me off that basically all the Disney actors I like are in this movie. Sigh
@@FeligamiAdrizoeSworaDooplivian Marinette would wash Jo and her "not like other girls-ness", she's a queen
Jo is the literal definition of “I’m not like other girls”
Jo always me made me cringe tbh
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@@nofserc5219 I was like a minute in when I commented so I didn’t remember she said it.
Shes the "pick me"with out saying it
I remember when I watched this movie, sounded like disney channel made it own Mean Girls version, there is even former disney actors on this movie... and I kinda feel bad for them.
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how are they the plastics? they hardly wear pink! and Mandi isn’t even intimidating like Regina, as if anyone at the school would bow down to Mandi.
@u dope Nah bro no thx lol
They are just popular girls not mean girls. And bullies. And color pink dosen't make mean girls plastics ~ 😊
@@HimeCookie Then why are they called Mean Girls if they're just popular anyway? They couldn't even get that part right
*intimidating. Also, I agree. Plus, their clothes make them look like 40 year old women and doesn't look like anything any teens I know would really wear.
@u dope Nah I'm good thanks 🤠
the first mean girls was a perfect example of how teenage girls ACTUALLY act and how they set themselves apart in high school in an effort to be "cool." the second one just feels like every other teen romcom written by a guy in his 50s who never spoke to a teenage girl a day in his life and remembers nothing about high school
Fr, the second movie is just straight up trash
This was actually directed and written by women lol
@@LeoJay I said "feels like" lol
@@LeoJay And?
@licorish_ To me, it feels like an 11 years fanfic about high school
It's embarrassing that the movie is even connected to Mean Girls. Why couldn't it have been it's own thing? I would have disliked it less.
True, if it were just a generic movie, time might have been kinder to it. But nope, they just had to cash in on a trend!
It's literally its own thing except they needed a "name"
lol isn't this basically what julia cudney said in her video?
it's like a mean girls cheap rip off
Ngl imo mean girls was overrated af they were way more better disney channel movies then that movie.
“I’m not like other girls”
Other girls: “same”
Fr tho
*like the other girls intensifies*
Billie eillish : joined and left the chat :/
Alas, society that teaches girls that being feminine = bad causes that shit :(
The worst thing about Jo was how unlikeable she is, not even relatable
can't relate, I liked her as a kid 😂
Yeahhhhh
They want to make her a tough girl who rides motorcycles and wears leather jackets. But she rides a scooter...
But sHeS nOt lIkE oThEr gUrLS
@@morgianasartre6709 as a kid I wanted to be like Jo and other characters who were “edgy, tough, tomboys”. But now that I’m older and wiser I realized that they are just internally misogynistic brats. This isn’t to bash all girls who are tomboys or alternative. I just dislike girls who think their interests make them better than other people
I love how ironic it is how Jo is saying don’t be sexist yet actively being sexist toward her own gender. Like saying that you should “settle this like men” and using a football match as a way to settle things is both sexist toward men and women. Not every man plays football and not every women is “weak”, at least that’s how she implied it.
Hey nice profile pic
Exactly! Now, have the personality of a not-like-other-girls girl, but I never, NEVER will put down other girls.
The height of hypocrisy
PREACH it!
" girls arent so bad after all " bruh 💀
Regina would have absolutely BODIED every single character in here without so much as changing the tone of her voice.
I'd pay to see that, it would be so fetch
@@strahinjagov Stop trying to make fetch happen! It's not going to happen
@@IoSaturnalia17 the nostalgiaaaa
"Stop trying to make Mean Girls 2 a thing."
@@nathanalbright "Its not gonna happan."
Fun fact: did you know that Jo isn't like other girls? It's really subtle, but if you watch the movie closely, you'll pick up the subtle clues they drop.
What do you mean ???
wait really? woah
Wait what?? I think I missed those "subtle clues" that they dropped
Wow really ? I didn't notice it.
@RAKSHITHA AVINASH r/wooosh
Remember in Mean Girls 1 where Janice was an "alternative girl" but she was just as bitchy and rude as the girly popular girls? That's a realistic high school character if I've ever seen one.
period
And Cady didn't fit in school at first, and it's *actually* awkward at first, and Cady isn't above Regina and sinks to her level a few times.
Yeah, that's what I like about Mean Girls, was that no character was discernibly "evil" or "good", they were real people who make mistakes, it's just that some make more mistakes than others. Janis is awful, but in a different way compared to Regina, and the film actually makes you feel bad for the villains, whereas in Mean Girls 2, the characters are so stereotypical and unsympathetic that you hate everyone just about equally.
@@SavouryGalette who are the villain?
@@freeeggs3811 Regina, Gretchen and Karen, but mostly Regina
honestly, if they changed the name, removed the swearing and 13+ jokes, it could have been a disney channel movie.
@Ks nah 13 year olds got better jokes than that
It's not?
It aired on Disney...that count?
the film is made of 4 disney channel stars
"I'm not like other girls"
Jo you are literally the reason WHY people say this, what the heck-
Dude, I just found out that people who think they are unique aren't that unique in the world.
@@anoaboadosaro everyone is unique:)
@@kdmac8110 was that a joke or seriously?
@@anoaboadosaro .
@@anoaboadosaro well if we was to get into specifics everybody would be unique since we all think differently since we all have different experiences and so will react differently to different situations. Even if the difference is small its still a difference therefore it makes you unique.
“Means girl 2 is the worst movie I’ve ever seen”
Everyone: *WE KNOW*
Omg ikr-
IKR??
Btw I’m your 200th like!😁❤️
Yep, and I've been denying that it exists for 10 years!
Trust me there’s worse or will be worse to come
Jeah I watched it on Netflix before they removed it and it was so terrible that I slowly lost faith (I knew it never would be as good as the original but at least expected something) until the "war" which was so ridiculous I shut of my TV and screamed "I can't" and never touched it again...
The first movie was like "Accept your true personnality"
This one is "Be more like boys"
And it's actually damaging
And how can you be like boys it's so stereotyped
Watched all these kinds of movies when I was like 6. I felt so bad because I was basically one of 'the other girls' so I tried to change myself a lot. Even now, it's a mentality it's taken me a long time to change it. The 'I'm not like other girls mindset SUCKS
That is EXACTLY what I was thinking
Yeah especially when she challenged mandi to a football game like this movie is so stupid
@@cm9666 YES, the quirky girl media needs to die, it doesnt make girls feel ok with liking other things, it makes them ashamed to like “girly” things and to not be who they really are and its shit
Kady- A normal girl with some kind of personality, relatable flaws, and actually likeable as a main character
Jo- I'M not like those other popular girls, I carve wood, and CARS, amirite? So obviously I'm MUCH better
This movie would have been so much better if it turned out that jo was actually just a lesbian and she loved Mandy and her internalized misogyny is actually internalized homophobia in disguise. Still could have sucked but the most important issue would be instantly fixed
@@Punk-possumthat’s so random 😭
@@Punk-possumi would actually watch that
Not to mention that Cady became a Plastic over time and unintentionally - she was so caught up with taking Regina down that she hadn’t realised she had not only pushed Regina out, but taken her place. In my opinion, one of the best scenes in the original is where Janis is arguing with Cady from Damian’s car during the house party and confronts her with the fact that she has become the type of person she so viscerally disliked. Even with the habit of lying to everyone for her own gain, even with the turning the Plastics against each other, and even dressed in pink with huge hoop earrings and a cute heart necklace, Cady doesn’t realise the fact that her whole attitude and personality has been influenced and changed for the worst until Janis, her former friend, tells it right to her face: “You are a _Mean Girl,_ Cady! You’re a _bitch!”_
This works flawlessly in the movie’s favour because at the start of the movie we’ve seen that Cady is just a quiet, shy, very intelligent but most of all genuinely kind, nice and caring girl - Janis infects her with the idea of sabotaging Regina until she spirals out of control, effectively becoming the new Regina. We see the growth, we feel the change.
In this movie, however, Jo goes from “not like the other girls, internalised misogyny, pickme one-of-the-boys” to dyed hair and using boys to hurt the Plastics. (Granted I have not seen the second movie, only this video from Alex Meyers, so bear with me.) We don’t experience her evolution, we don’t notice her corruption from a normal person into a dog-eat-dog alpha female because she was never that normal in the first place - she made a point of being different. Not to mention one of the movie’s biggest fails was preaching for gender equality only to undermine itself using its main character as a token of misogyny - pitting girls against each other!
@@Punk-possumtotally! Nikki and MacKenzie type relationship, don’t you think? I’d have loved to see that movie.
“If you haven’t seen this movie before; don’t bother.” Best advice ever!
i cant believe ive seen it more than once
I remember watching it as a kid and immediately regretting my decision. Yet I finished the movie anyway
Pahaha🤣🤣🤣
@@5bc500 hurry yyryry
I remember bits and pieces here and there, I watched it once and the only scene I could probably tell you about is that scene where everyone was wearing paint stained clothes because Jo was wearing paint stained clothes. I think that's the only scene in this movie that was kinda okay
That bullied girls parents: money wont solve her problems.
Also the bullied girls parents: Lets pay this teenager to be her friend so she feels better and solves her friends.
To be fair, the mom just said she needed friends, the dad was the one who decided to pay the MC money to be their child's friend.
Problems. Solves her problems*
@@loserme414 came here to say this. I don't think her mom knew, I think that's why she welcomed her in with open arms the way she did, she had no idea and if she had she would've been very upset
it was the dad that wanted it to solve with money (he also paid the "friend"). The mother said that money won't solve the problem
She's apparently the most bullied person in their school. Plus she doesn't have friends. As if superficial teenagers will harass the richest kid in school.
Regina George : I love your movie so vintage
Mandi : Thanks ( walks away)
Regina George : that is the worst f-ing movie I’ve ever seen
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LMAOO
Why is this comment not liked more
AHAHAHAHA REGINA BEING A QUEEN LIKE SHE IS
Honestly I’ll never understand why they didn’t call the cops after Mandy and friends destroyed her dads engine. Like trespassing is probably the first thing they’d get charged with, and there’s a shit ton of witnesses in the coffee shop when she confessed to the whole thing
“Do I look like most girls?”
Yes….you do.
What do you mean? She has a leather jacket....
@ROSE ARWEN MARGARET R MIRASOL I think they were being ironic
Nah, she's wearing black. Girls don't like the color black
@ROSE ARWEN MARGARET R MIRASOL because she's a wannabe not like the other girls /j
She does not. Most girls are badass being themselves, the main character looks dumb trying so hard to be above "most girls".
I feel like the “I’m not like other girls” trope could have been used so much better than it was here. Like they could have made it to where jo realized that other girls aren’t as bad as she was making them out to be and made a good story around that
Or at least not outright state "I'm not like other girls"
Yeah like alex russo
I hate the whole "I'm not like other girls" thing.......
1 It kinda sounds like you are saying that other girls are all alike......
2 yes you are cause there is a whole group of girls who say the same.....
Who wrote this movie? I swear Tina Fey would never make something this bad
@@cm9666 I usually find away to disagree with anything that has something to do with girls/women being did wrong....but I agree with this.....btw I am a girl.....if that first part made you wonder....
I love how Hollywood acts like a girl raised by her dad will obviously be a tom boy and be able to build a vehicle from scratch by the time she's 12 smh.
I’ve met a single dad with two daughters, and he taught them basic domestic work/choirs, making them his little women. We often saw him taking his daughters to Girl Scouts, and they were the most behaved ones there. Not all dads raise tomboys.
(Though I’m not going to lie that my own father tried getting me into/buying me boyish stuff cause he wasn’t satisfied with two daughters and desperately wanted a son…)
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exactly my sister and I had a single dad and we aren't "tom boys" and weren't in hs either... lol
“I spent 2 minutes with my father, and now I can drive a motorcycle!!”
That’s like saying “Single moms often raise boys that become reliant on their moms so all of them can’t do anything and want to date someone like their mom.” We know it’s not true. But how can we get mad at single dads with girls and in the same breath praise single moms with boys? Single parenting is hard. Everyone get the fuck over it. Stop thinking all dads are bad parents and only moms can raise opposite sex kids right 😂 like yes. There’s benefits to being raised by an opposite sex parent. Being raised by a single dad meant for me, I knew how to protect myself, because he taught a us, he taught us how to load weapons and weapon safety, and he didn’t care if I wore men’s clothes or girls clothes or mix and matched.
Mean girls: let’s have a dumb girl but actually make her likable
Mean girls 2: let’s have all the girls be dumb but make them annoying
The "screw being ladies, let's settle this like men!" must be the worst writing in history
✨ internalised misogyny ✨
I refuse to believe any sane woman would ever say something like that
"screw being ladies, let's settle this like *hamilton*" and then proceed to have a duel at dawn in front of the school
@@e.ghetti6710 I would want to have that scene exists.
@@e.ghetti6710 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 it’s the 10 duel, commandments. And then they died.
Literally all this movie does is say “hyper feminine bad” “Tom boy good and unique” The amount of internalized misogyny that Jo has is so sad
literally "screw being ladies and screw being girls...we're gonna settle this like men" like what? What is this show trying to say to a young female audience?!
The first Mean Girls expressed that all interests are valid, and girls are all beautiful people who should get along.
Someone's getting some good use out of that gender studies degree I see.
@@momomomocensoredbyyoutube9085 someone's triggered by being outside his incel safe space too long and being forced to think, I see.
Truth. And the pick-mes and the dudebros can get over it.
When the main character was meaner than the actual mean girls of the sequel. I literally found myself routing for the bad people to win.
PFFT
Agreed I hate Jo she is a awful main character!!!🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣
agreed.
Jo is like one of those people who say “im not like other girls I wear black and fix cars I’m so cool”
Castiel😃
I swear I hate the trope in teen movies where the adults won't lift a finger to do anything while the main character is getting mercilessly bullied and pranked, but as soon as they get tired of it and want to kick some ass, the adults spawn in like GTA cops
Unfortunately that's real life with most schools
Five star wanted level.
“Settling this like men”= Football game???
I kinda think the “manly” way would have been a fistfight in the second act and then everyone has beers together by the end.
Exactly, my high school was basically boys only, we would fight a lot but by the end of the day we would make up, apologize and are still friends after half a decade
@@Abba_Fan Straight facts👍 Most people aren’t just evil jerks out to ruin everyone’s good time. They just need a good bop to the mouth to cut the bullshit.
This is highschool not legally aged adults.
@@Tyler171819 exactly, kids don't really understand the weight of words, the talking only becomes effective once they age a bit, like after graduating I don't think I have had a single fight in 6 years, most of my problems were solved by talking with the other person
a football game doesn't mean its manly its also for girls . Seriously this movie is so bad
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The most annoying part of the movie for me was when Mandi threw her dog in the bin??? Hello?? I know that Mean Girls wasn't realistic but it still made SENSE majority of the time
don't get me started on how much the situation with Jo's friends dad was willing to pay her for being his daughters friend LMAOO
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DOG ABUSE???......Ok now I see why you ppl hate this movie (didn't even start the vid yet lol).....
The most annoying part was HOW THEY LET THE DOG IN THE SCHOOL IN THE FIRST PLACE
@@koolkidhav Same
Alex: "humanity was punished"
Everyone: we agree.
@Andilynn Bailey thanks!!
I was your thousand like🙌🙌
@@kp782 :)
This is solid proof that not every amazing movie needs a sequel
Facts
Regina George had a certain truth to her character with her rage, her worrying home life and her subtle micro-aggressions and manipulations. Mandy is just a Saturday morning cartoon villain. A BAD Saturday morning cartoon villain. Also: Regina was fun, compelling and mildly terrifying to watch; and I just want to sit on Mandy's face every time she starts speaking.
Also, Regina became nice at the end
sit on mandy's face? maybe that's a bad way to say it
@@1p9v or maybe it wasn’t...
Ikr
@@1p9v 😂😂😂💀
She had to change schools twice a year because her dad was.... a mechanic? Makes no sense 🤣
Yep
Everyone has a car! A mechanic would NEVER have to move lmao.
I know a mechanic who’s lived in the same house for 20+ years.
I would say "well maybe he's a bad mechanic" but that's how a lot of mechanics make a living 😭u go in like "my brake is weird" and leave with 10 other "issues" that need to be fixed or something else "coincidentally" off
@@Pukeprincess he was a Nascar mechanic, though. So they moved around a lot for the races. It is an actual thing.
“I’m not like other girls” was literally Jo’s entire personality
FR
Not just personality- her looks, possessions, and even relationships. Her entire character was built upon that stereotype
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I'm perplexed how they could attempt to make a movie with a "feminist" message while being so blatantly misogynistic at the same time. The movie is absolutely hateful towards anything feminine and does nothing but make a mockery of teen girls unless they act more masculine. So ironic and ridiculous
“It’s like a bad Disney Channel movie.” Accurate considering 4 of the 5 main characters are former Disney Channel actresses. And the other was on Nickelodeon 😂
This really does feel like the worst of Disney Channel and your typical (bottom-of-the-barrel) Nickelodeon show/movie (no pun intended on Nickelodeon Movies, btw)! After all, subsidiaries of The Walt Disney Company (ABC Family) and Viacom (Paramount Famous/Home Entertainment and Nickelodeon overplaying Mean Girls 2 over the original on their godforsaken network) both had it!
@@kieranstark7213 Paramount pretty much produced and distributed the film while Disney pretty much just aired the film on ABC Family (now called Freeform) and had no involvement on the film whatsoever. So it’s technically a film by Paramount that Disney picked up the rights to air it on their network.
True, but I’d still count it as a Nickelodeon movie (alongside being a Disney movie) because it just feels so much like one.
@@kieranstark7213 not really tho. Just because Viacom owns Paramount and Nickelodeon doesn’t mean it’s a Nickelodeon movie since it appeals to be a teen movie with PG-13 content that Nickelodeon wouldn’t really air. It probably must’ve aired on Nick at Nite (their late night block similar to Adult Swim on Cartoon Network) if that’s what your saying.
Yeah, makes sense, I guess that’s the closest MG2 would get to being part of Nickelodeon by an objective standpoint. Then again, same could be said about so many other sequels that fail at being them and remakes that exist to fix what wasn’t even broken!
Mean Girls: a subtle look at the bullying and toxicity characterizing the relationships between teen girls with a wholesome message about self-acceptance and kindness; Mean Girls 2: just misogyny :|
Definitely
Idk about misogyny. Sometimes movies are just bad.
@@cindigonzalez7350 yeah, but it's also hella misogynistic. the entire movie jo goes "girls bad, boys good." basically saying if you like pink and dressing up, you won't amount to anything in life. but if you like cars and football, you've got your life made.
This whole movie is ''I'm not like other girls. I don't like pink.''
-misogyny from both the male characters and the female character too 💀 this movie sucks ass
jo: do i look like most girls?
hailee steinfeld: *most girls are smart and strong and beautiful*
*most girls, work hard, go far, we are unstoppable*
🌈✨I'm not like other girls✨🌈
I'm like ✨most girls✨. I like pink, I'm soft and I get scared. I'm not ashamed of it. I'm proud of it.
So no. She does not look like most girls lol
Yeah she’s right she isn’t like most girls 😃😬
This comment is so wholesome❤️
I love how the whole school staff ignores the fact that jo is supposed to be in jail and expelled at the same time because she challenged mandi to a football game
"Not like most girls" is just a toxic cliche that movies still serve to pit girls against one another. By saying that, you lump most girls into some lump stereotype and say that you not adhering to that makes you special and better. Instead of actually embracing self confidence and uniqueness. Utter BS.
Exactly. By putting other women down like that, it just furthers the idea that women are a monolith. All girls are the same, the only way we can be complex autonomous people with minds of our own is OBVIOUSLY by shitting on other women and acting "more masculine," right? Just a nasty narrative.
It is so toxic- ever since I was little I thought it was a bad thing to be girly and feminine cause i had to be "different"
@@karensmith8911 how is your perceptions now?
@@broneedstoshutup I am so sorry that happened to you... That's really trashy of them to judge you over the preferance tbh, And I hope they are either not in your life rn or they have changed their outlook on things. I hope you enjoy your style and you find people who will appreciate and accept that and even if they don't, that's what you like, F- their opinion 😤. You are gorgeous and amazing the way you are, And you should only change your style when you want to, as it's totally your choice... 💖
@@broneedstoshutup I AM REALLY HAPPY FOR YOU 😤💖
So this movie is so bad, a lot of us didn't even know it existed
Oh hello sir seeing you after a while
it do be like that
You are officially the new Justin Y.
Heard of it but never thought it would have a new cast-
I know when it came out I watched it and regret it later
this movie was made in 22 days… that explains A LOT.
Wait really?
Oh wow
Why am I not surprised- 😂😂
@@mariacastillo4121 yes the main character actress (Jo) said in an interview that they made this movie in just 22 days
So was reservoir dogs
The first movie was to embrace being feminine but also being your actual self while this one is just “girl bad be like boy 🤓”
Yeah, straight up misogynistic
Wait...there was a Mean Girls 2?
*I'm dead serious right now...I've never heard of a sequel or was it so bad that explains why I never heard about it?
It's terrible hahaha you're lucky you didn't know about it.
Nah it's not just you. I never heard of it either (and I loved the original mean girls) I think most people just pretend it doesn't exist (or something like that) :))
It was one of those straight to dvd sequels I wanna say. Never watched it though.
it’s so bad that no one talks about it. we all want to erase it from our brains.
I watch the movie when i was young but didnt know it was mean girls 2
What school does Jo go to where EVERYONE has their own car? I knew a whopping 3 people who had their own car and two of them were teachers.
I'm in college and most of the people in my classes don't have a car 😩
It depends. Went to high school in most of the southeast and college in Louisiana and Georgia and EVERYONE had cars. Typically if you don't live in a large city with lots of Public transportation, you have a car. At least in the states.
im european and here people get their driving license when they are 18 so very few people actually drive to school and only last year, like in my class half of the people were trying out for the driving exam but also some didnt pass it, some didnt have cars, only licenses, some's parents didnt let them drive alone, some lived on a walking distance...
@@Orion_TheyThem Live in Texas and can confirm about a majority of students in the South having cars. Our high school does offer bus transportation, but usually athletic and band kids have to arrive earlier than everybody else so they usually have cars. There’s also driving off campus to get to different buildings for different classes, events or leaving early to get home.
edit: would also like to add that in Texas, you can get your permit by age 15 and I think your license.
My high school was primarily rich kids and everyone that didn’t come from my neighborhood (the low-income students) had a car by the time they were 16 and had their license.
so Mandi got Jo’s dad FIRED and literally got her EXPELLED and they decide to settle it with…..a football game?!
If only it had ended with a John Wick style killing spree. At least then we would’ve gotten to witness the deaths of all the tools in this movie.
And the dad getting fired part is that even legal? Why didn't she call the police? And she was trespassing
oh see it's because jo is not like other girls and she doesn't like pink oh yeah that explains it all
Right? Like at that point we’re fightin!
@@jacksongibbs8998 give us a time machine so you can direct it
Wasn't the whole point of Mean Girls that the main character was a fish out of water? Having this girl a regular attendee of countless High School (and literally too cool for school) makes no sense.
No teenage girl gets laughed at for being a virgin in high school. Who wrote this script, aliens?
probably written by some 50 year old man who was mocked by his friends for being a virgin
@@callnight1441 ,ooooooi
@@callnight1441 LMAOOOO
@@callnight1441 LMAOOOOO
That happened to my lil cousin I offered to go undercover as a student to beat them up 😔 she said no
Cady: a character with an interesting and unique upbringing, relatable flaws, a strong character arch, who is neither “good” nor “bad” but simply a regular girl making mistakes as she navigates a new environment at a young age, portrayed by the gifted talent that is Lindsay Lohan.
Jo: I’m not like other girls so I’m good. Popular girly girls are BAD. Pick me tho cause I do wood shop and fix cars!!!!
bro your replay made my day
Pretty much yeah
Perfect summary 👌
And fixing the fight by football match like men do (according to her) will solve everything. 🙂
I don't like Cady but I defo prefer her over Jo
The whole movie irritated me, but 2 things stuck out:
1) In what world would a rich girl like Abby be hated by the entire school? Even if she wasn’t necessarily popular, wouldn’t she at least have a few friends and kinda fly under the radar?
2) I can’t believe this movie had the mean girls committing crimes. Regina, Gretchen, and Karen were mean, but they never broke the law.
and the main conflict between Abby and Mandi was the fact that,,, Abby's family had more money? Like how did Mandi find out, google their net worth??? Because Abby got better things for her bdays??? Sorry girlie maybe it's not the money but your parents idk...
yeah.
A pretty, white, rich girl is the loser of the school that everyone bullies.... very realistic.
honestly, I'm pretty naive and stuff and I usually dislike quite a few people as long as they're ''evil'' but even though Regina, Gretchen, and Karen weren't the nicest people I didn't find myself really disliking them that much for some reason
however I really didn't like the ones in that movie that much-
Yeah that first one makes 0 sense....
This movie should be called 'Most Girls' after the quote 'dO i lOoK LiKE mOsT GiRiLs" 😂😂 6:13
Better than and more accurate than the original title that's for sure
When the main character said, “I challenge you to a football game” That’s where I lost it, she gotta say that to the girl. Just to prove that she isn’t like other girls, and she just wants to impress the boys. Nothing special about that,
She said " Let's fight like men" or some bs like that. What does that even mean? Why football?
Oh that was special. Special in its stupidity. How fight like men equals playing football?
She an actual “pick me” girl 🥲
agreed and the new villan.
I think that is what happens when middle age men try to do a teen girl movie XD
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This movie should be called: "I'm not like other girls: the movie"
Lol Yh Probably
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Tag line: don’t be like this
It should be called mean girls parody
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I’d agree except that it’s less of a parody and more of a crappy ripoff.
A virgin? In HIGHSCHOOL? Say it isn't so! What are you gonna tell me next: there are old people in retirement homes?
(seriously though most highschoolers are literally children. I know she's 18? But even then what's the rush lol)
Maybe I just wasn't paying attention but I've never met a high schooler who actually cared who was and wasn't a virgin
@@labaker4285 exactly lmao
@@labaker4285 same lol
oh no, this 18 year old who moved schools twice a year and hence doesnt really parttake in social stuff in schools hasnt lost her virgitity???? whaaaa
@@labaker4285
At the elementary school,middle school and high school ...they cared if you were a virgin or not.
Bullied you if your body count was lower than 2. I happened to live in a suburban/city area.
“My mom died before I was born”
*sigh…
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i just hate how nonsensical this movie is- the first mean girls yes has over the top scenes like regina having cut up nipple tops or the girls fighting in the hallways but you understood it was part of the world, the girls were mean and dramatic but also real. this movie has them riding motorcycles into school and slapping trays of food into their faces and making their parents loose jobs in an all out war…. hell the plot revolves around paying girls to be friends. it’s just not relatable in the slightest yet they slap the “ not like other girls “ narrative and vague themes from the original to try and market it. I just… i hate this movie💀
Yelp
I agree
To be honest, both Mean Girls movies for me were bad. Both of them were bad because there were SO MANY stereotypes. Both had the idea that "girl world" is just about gossiping and that "girl clique" is toxic. The second one had stereotypes on girls' and boys' and what they "generally do". The second one also had the 'I'm not like other girls' attitude.
In my opinion, the second one was better just because it was less inappropriate and less romance-involved. The first one was SO romantic and all of that stuff. However, as a sequel, it was SO BAD. The second one was also a little more intriguing for me than the first one. The first one did have a good ending though, where all the girls changed paths instead of the Plastics being continued. The first one also had a better plot than the second one, but I HATE how it has as usual, Halloween stuff going on.
@@emeraldnighthawk4733 the girl world is super toxic. the first mean girls had it right, i think. in my experience, nearly girl is in a clique. idk if you’re like popular or something so maybe ur not self aware, but girls are awful. my own “friends” are constantly talking about eachother behind their backs.
@@emeraldnighthawk4733 are you dense? The first movie is a critique on those stereotypes. It’s entirely satirical. The only valid criticism on stereotypes that I can think of in the first one is that it’s kinda racist.
Tess from Camp Rock, Harper from Wizards of Waverly Place, the dad from Teen Wolf and Rebecca from the Vampire Diaries...what? I don't remember the cast being like this.
I knew I notice her dad from somewhere but I couldn’t put my finger on it 😂
and the girl from cory in the house too
And Macy from Jonas!
and Macy from jonas
Don’t forget Emma from H2o, fellow Aussie here😊
I like how this "sequel" kept the same principal, but the school and everything else is very different from the first movie... 😐
It's because the movie is really about him and having to deal with all the mean girls at every school he works at.
@@jennydavis5261 he's the main character of the mean girls cinematic universe lol
Clearly they are cursed.
“It’s like a bad Disney Channel movie.” pretty much with 4 of the 5 main characters played by former Disney Channel actresses and the movie premiered on ABC Family a TV channel owned by Disney.
Mean Girls 2: Okay, we are against sexism.
Also Mean Girls 2:
"I'm not like other girls!"
"Let's not settle this like girls, we settle this like men."
They just further perpetuate to the issue than overcoming it.
YES! This annoyed me
finally someone said it
Ugh, reminds me of “menocidal” movies like Charlie’s Angels (2019) and Black Widow (2021), if you know what I mean.
@@kieranstark7213 Almost all moves seem to be that way now. Men are depicted as evil, or they're bumbling, incompetent idiots. Women run the show, women comprise most of the characters, women do everything they can to make the men look weak and ineffective at everything, and yet there is no character growth. Their entire personality is "see how strong and brave I am." One of many reasons why movies suck.
@@ElveeKaye Nickelodeon has been doing that for years with Schneider’s Bakery shows which people just love to defend because of nostalgia, Butch Hartman shows (in The Fairly OddParents, they treated Timmy Turner like the bad guy every time he tried to run away from girls staking him (romantically or platonically) from Tootie to Vicky to Trixie Tang to Chloe Carmichael to Mrs. Turner to Wanda), Nickelodeon Movies (The Last Airbender, Playing With Fire, the kid-2010s Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles duology, Fun Size (I have a theory that every time Nickelodeon cast Victoria Justice in stuff, it was a way to originally cast Jennette McCurdy as the same characters she would play just to shut her out as much as ever until they make Sam Puckett the new protagonist of Victorious after Tori Vega in Sam & Cat), Hey Arnold: The Movie (Hey Arnold! could be one of the least as Nickelodeon shows… whenever it does the right things like have emotional encounters between Arnold and some adults… but then comes Helga Pataki with her obsessive crush on him and nobody trying to stop it and think that if he did it, everyone, even Helga herself, would think he’s the rapist) and the Rugrats trilogy (the show and the movies, though the seconds, All Grown Up and Rugratsbin Paris, would have to be the best of the worst)
I feel like Karen Smith wrote this sequel during a 45 minute study hall.
Karen Smith feels smart after watching this movie
karen smith could've written an even better sequel
Nah Karen can write better than this
Karen could do better than this lol
Nah even Karen isn't this dumb
This movie should have been in the Burn Book
FRR
This movie isn’t good enough to be in the Burn Book. All the people who participated in it ought to be though.
Lol fr tho
Totally
😂😂😂
Teen movies really be acting like being a virgin is so awful. I'd literally be glad
As a girl I HATED this movie because Jo was so called calling out sexism when she had internalized misogyny herself by always thinking that girls were beneath her or thinking they were all back stabbers and then the whole "Do I look like most girls?" is so annoying like girl just because ur into mechanics and engineering it doesn't mean anything I know A LOT of girls that are into that.. Regina was actually ICONIC because of the things she said and how differently she would get ppl back THEN Jo goes "Screw being ladies and screw being girls" then proceeded to saying "Lets settle this like men" she wants to fit in with guys so bad its pathetic and embarrassing
The thing is they could've really made the plot interesting. Like Jo has been to many schools and she's seen these "girls rules" many time, thinking she's above them so instead of trying to have her own group of friends she'd try to just fit with the guys or something?? But then realises she's just as bad as the girls?? I don't know it's such a shame cause seems like they originally had a good plot idea and they could've dig in it deeper but the execution was absolute shit. It's just about girls acting like they're in primary school to bully each other...
True 😂😂😂😂
YEESS
It's giving pick me
True asf
Villainizing stereotypically feminine qualities (such as wearing dress, liking the colour pink, being interested in fashion or make-up) is textbook internalized misogyny.
Look at all the movies back in the 2000’s that demonized anyone who was stereotypically “girly”
@@ihvojd Exactly! No wonder pick-mes evolved from that, when they are told over and over to be “feminine” and to like “ feminine things” is bad and/or lesser.
feels like the 30/40ish hollywood authors wanted to get back at the girly girls
@@ihvojd Its ok we get it, still happens today.
I get where you're coming from ,but dude this sounds like you copied and pasted . 😑 I don't really think it's misogyny , these kinds of girls are the ones that bullied the misfits , which is why it appears so often in books etc .
They really had the audacity to take the most iconic movie of a generation and pump out a second like this
How dare they
I know, for shame, why did they have to touch a classic teen movie that wasn't broken to begin with?!
They literally just wanted to make a teen high school movie and went "ok but how do we get an audience?"
9:40 oh wow, that girl's clearly channeling her inner Cleo🧜🏻♀️♨️
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Yess
Cady in the first one actually kinda wasn’t “like other girls” but she didn’t know it or proclaim it, it wasn’t painted as making her better than anyone, nor was it relatable. It just put her in a position to be confused and manipulated, become like the mean girls more easily, and frame the movie with a wild animal analogy.
yeah like she was homeschooled so she didnt know any better, which made sense. she never downplayed any other girls and had a pretty positive perspective about everyone at the school (i mean, until all the shit happened)
She was never a nlog. A confused girl just existing in a school enviroment isnt a nlog
She’s less “not like other girls” and more “not like other kids/students,” because she has never been a regularly schooled student. I also always really liked how she appreciates everything, girls included, when she first gets there.
@@shamitha_5973 not all home schoolers are like that. Some of them, yes, but not all.
She wasn't exactly "not like other girls", she just wasn't like anyone, because she had never really been around kids her age in a school setting. She didn't know any of the rules, and was unfamiliar with the customs.
“Do I look like other girls?”
Said every *QUIRKY* and *RELATABLE* girl out there..
Why has this got no replys
@@shinypikachu8881 Idk, many others are empty too XD
When the whole key message of mean girls was to overcome Internalized Misogyny and then this bs happened and just.. 🤔 Decided to uno reverse that?!
Right? So many iconic feminist lines like the one about why girls need to stop calling eachother sluts and whores. Meanwhile this movie is full of casual slut shaming
@@alyssapinon9670 yes!!
EXACTLY. this movie is a disgrace compared to the OG mean girls. what were they even thinking while writing this shit.
@Alyssa Pinon AGREE!!!!
“I challenge you to a football game!” As a guy, I’ve never challenged someone to a football game because we weren’t friends.
Really??? Impossible
And he waddled away waddle waddle till the very next day
Regina is despicable and malicious. Mandi is like “I think I know more about American Girl dolls than you do 𝒸𝒽𝒾𝒸𝒶.”
Honestly i think mandi is both more malicious and more pathetic. Regina would never get someones parents fired because she doesnt like them, she has more class and more power than that. Mandi resorts to the most nuclear option because no one will take her seriously any other way
Exactly lmao
LOL i hate that i read it in the voice
I hate this “most girls” bullshit that every Netflix teen movie or most teen movies has surrounding it. Seriously, every girl is unique. They have their own personality. You can’t just group them into being nice or mean or ugly or pretty. Being different from other girls is exactly what you’re supposed to be. So being quirky isn’t a superior trait. It’s just a trait...
Also wow, first time I got so many likes! Definitely made my day. Thanks everyone 😁
@UCby-ZuC7DOb_s65YR4fiI9w Maybe back then trashing on the "popular pretty girls" was a good way to make gender norms commentary. However, now I think it's extremely backfired and society is at the point in which being feminine just isn't ok? Like God forbid a girl can be smart pretty and confident. It's like in all these stupid movies a girl can't just be all three, she had to be one or the other. Also, the fact that the unique girls (aka tomboys) are given so much spotlight defeats the purpose of attempting to make them the norm. If you're a tomboy that shouldn't be a big deal, who actually cares? These kinds of movies also pin women against each other which to me personally is kind of disgusting and out dated.
Pretty sure this been a thing waaaaay before Netflix was a streaming servuce
If you have to say you’re not like other girls, you’re a lot more like them than you realize. A real king doesn’t have to say he’s the king.
@@KTSpeedruns right!
I love the song most girls by Hailey Steinfeld! It embodies the opposite message of this movie
"It just feels like a bad community theatre production of a play written by auto correct..."
*That is strangely specific, but also completely accurate.*
Ur profile picture goes so well with this 😂
Missed opportunity to call this movie “Meaner Girls”
True though😂😂
But they weren’t meaner
One of the things I loved about the first mean girls was that they showed that Regina really wasn’t all that bad, just got caught up in the wrong crowd. They killed off Mandy like she was the evil queen at the end of a princess movie
Dude yes. Regina would NEVER get someones parents fired or frame them for robbery, or post a video “exposing” them as a virgin lol what. The girls kept the book secret because they knew how bad it was and would never say those things to the people in question. It was fucked up of them to do it but like the worst they did was write that some girl is ugly (cady wrote the drug dealer thing so i dont blame regina for that)
I watched Julias video too
@@mintycows3009 she’s an icon ❤️
@@rugbyplayer9100 SUCH AN ICONNNN
@@rugbyplayer9100 I like her channel too!
if regina george had been in this movie even after she had become good, she would've made mandi piss herself with fear and run home crying
Regina George was the 1956 Maleficent of teen movie antagonists.
The "movie" isn't even a sequel or a continuation of the original story, it's just a cheap Disney channel humor knock off
and the pincipal's actor is the same, they also made like 1 reference to the original /it was something like how teachers are not allowed to be alone with students, since that one girl had an affair with the pe teacher in the first one/
I think that is what happens when middle age men try to do a teen girl movie...
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kady is the main characters mom. she has a phto of her in her room.
@@dancortat7445 your English is great
@@brittanybarkhousejackson4934 Is she? I missed that. So her and Aaron did not work out
When your friend is hanging with someone you don’t know and have to pretend to like that person : 9:50
The annoying thing with these school movies is that the "loser girl" would be the coolest person at a real school. If u showed up with a leather jacket and bike... u would be viewed as pretty damn awesome lol
For real. Show up in Florida like that you would have girls and guys crushing on you
Oh definitely...
Her moped😂🙄
Wait i thought Jo is cool new girl in this movie, that's why Mandi get so jealous and pick on her a lot or sth.
True. In my small town high school, a new person just had to claim to be from a city and they would instantly be considered cool.
"Do I look like most girls?" Yes, Jo, yes you do. Even in 2011, that is what most girls wore 😑 and acted like 🙄 she really thinks that she's the only girl in the world who likes cars and can build things 😂😂😂
Please do she is the man! I love that movie
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Up!
That's a good idea
YESSSS
yea!
The most jarring part of this movie was that the cuts between shots in the same scene never lined up. Alex managed to capture a few of those moments. In the shop class scene it looks like she straight up teleported closer and then farther away.
you know it’s a bad movie when you keep forgetting which one mandy is.. 😶
the bitches name is “mandi”
@@miswastephoriaflourpo5452 I think that’s the joke
Why bother remembering the spelling anyway 😭
@@lemoncake8891 that was the joke 💀💀💀
@@lainac1976 I know 🧍♀️
When she said "screw being ladies! Let's settle this like men! I challenge you for a football game." I nearly died from cringe.
If someone had said literally that at my high school that person would have been bullied hard core
“I’m nothing like Mandy, she farts when she pees” WHY IS THAT A TRUE INSULT BAHAHAHHAA
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DJ's Vlogs you had to do it
I'm more confused as to how the writers considered this a Sequel despite having nothing to do with the Original. The Point of a Sequel is to expand upon the groundwork that the Original laid out. They would have been more accurate to label this as a Reboot.
what I like about Cady's character is that she is incredibly good in maths, and she doesn't dress too feminine, but not once did I see her have "that not like other girl energy"
She didn’t have the social awareness to have that “not like other girls” vibe, which is why she was the perfect person to tear down the toxic system by experiencing it firsthand.
Exactly! When writing (a film or a book or something) the casual rule is "show not tell"
Basically, show the character is not like other girls, not physically tell the audience
Cady did this well by liking maths and not dressing femininely
Whereas Jo literally said "do I look like other girls?" which is just stupid lol
Milasia Cady was also useless at recognising social cues because this was her first experience of being in a regular high school, which we saw in action. This extends to her parents, who don’t collectively grasps what grounded means.
@@jbcatz5 that's actually a good point, but I also observed that the people around her didn't give her that "new girl treatment" none of them treated her any differently just because she was a new girl who was incredibly good at maths. While in Jo's case it was extremely cringey cos once she did arrive at the school, she was immediately the "badass girl who loves black and knows how to ride bikes".
Agreed
Thank you for being the reason I never have to watch bad movies
I watched it years ago while I was bedridden and it was THE LAMEST SHIT I HAVE EVER SEEN.
@@nonconformist36 I saw it too...damn, it was awful...
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You're lucky, I had the misfortune of watching this dreck years ago!
Yes
The "I'm not like other girls" is part of internalised misogyny, which is sadly presented to teenage girls in movies like that. :/
It also pushes the idea that girls should appeal more to guys, seek their approval and all...plus ofc downgrading femininity which is just bs
I’d also say that it implies that being a girl generally equals being feminine which isn’t the truth at all
Its litterally just a child wanting to be special, its not political.
I was bullied in school by those "other girls" so I hated them, it has nothing to do with misogyny or seeking approval of men lol
False.
Its a line used to falsely make a female MC look relatable.
If they were Gothic, punk, or emo, it would fit. NOTHING to do with this imaginary connection to feminism or misogyny.
I love how the movie just ignores what happened in the original. The sequel was an insult to the original, the original was actually so iconic.
Edit: apparently wearing leather jackets and black boots makes you different from ‘other girls’
to be fair, it's one thing to be a tomboy, but even among them, how many girls in high school did you see wearing that?
I hate how in high school movies they always think that never having a boyfriend, first kiss and or being a virgin is a bad thing. At least in my high school experience, people were actually shamed if they weren’t virgins or had different boyfriends . Like be realistic here.
It’s American movie. High school experience is waaaaayyyyyy more different
In my school literally nobody cared. Everyone was dealing with their own stuff.
@@killjoyer yeah I am American born and raised so again this is really unrealistic. Nobody in my school cared about this information at all lol.
@@ToriTheDormouse yup exactly! I went to a school with over 2,000+ people and I barely knew half of the schools population because I didn’t have time nor did I care too. I was living in my own world and just wanted to graduate.
@@ToriTheDormouse same here
One of the biggest things about mean girls is that they were passive aggressive, they weren't visibly mean to people so that they could maintain their rep. They played mind games and pitted one another against each other. Not just some lame Disney plotline of the new 'cool tomboy' vs the popular girls
For a movie trying to be all about female empowerment and feminism, it's actually really sexist and misogynistic 😂
Im sorry...female empowerment? Whoever thought that was on crack
Its a 9*cking comedy!
@David Hernandez Wait, what? When did I blame men for it?
@David Hernandez That's just the word used to describe prejudice against women. That doesn't mean that all men are misogynistic. Some women can be misogynistic, too. Like the whole "not like other girls" trope. Which is what this movie was going for. I don't even know who made the movie nor do I care what sex they are. I was criticizing the movie, not men.
@David Hernandez I never said we are oppressed. I don't consider myself a victim and hate that kind of mentality. I think you've misunderstood something and are way too emotionally invested to listen to reason. Idk why you're talking about slavery and stuff, you're going way off tangent. All I was saying was that the movie sucked. I suggest you try to cool off a bit.
The original mean girls was mean but they did mostly psychologically shit but this movie is filled with stuff that would definitely count as actual crimes…
“I don’t like girls because they judge and are mean to others for being different. And *I’M* not ~like other girls~ because I’ve internalized misogyny so much that I hate other girls. But also, ew I’m judging and disliking those girls because they’re different from me, and they like fashion and makeup, and that’s bad.”
Internalised misogyny? so when a girl doesn’t like hanging out with other girls and prefers having guy friends she has internalised misogyny?
@Rachel K
On point.
@S. Storumus Having mostly guy friends isn’t internalized misogyny. It becomes that when you have guy friends because “girls are too messy” or because you want to disassociate yourself from what’s perceived to be girly so that’s why you hang out with mostly guys. But hanging out with mostly guys because they’re good friends and have good personalities is not internalized misogyny.
@@_kittyh3lloI also think that som of the girls who “are just friends with the guys, doesn’t have any girl friends” is kinda dodge too. It means that other woman don’t trust her so you could be right. I’m just sick of hearing terms like “misogyny” getting thrown around tbh
@@s.storumus8620 I'm also sick of people acting all outraged when the term is used correctly. Since it's thrown around so much, you should have no trouble finding actual examples to complain about.
Imagine having a parent that doubts your social skills so much they offer to pay another teenager to befriend you
I know someone who was paid to do this
@@beemotd1004 omg??? what the hell how much were they offered??
at that point i wouldnt even be mad, id accept that im a giant loser lmao
I wanted my mom to do this since I've never had friends to celebrate my birthday and I at least wanted one party in my life, but she wouldn't :(
@@labaker4285 Good. You deserve real friends, people who are going to stick with you for a very long time. You'll make friends eventually, try putting yourself out there, try talking to those who have similar interests as you. :)
"I'm not like other girls"
"I'm sick of all that girl stuff"
"Let's settle this like men"
Yikes
In the original movie, it was shown that the heroine was sick of the girl backstabbing, instead of saying it
I'm losing my remaining brain cells with this sequel 😂😭
"do i look like most girls?"
Don't be so transphobic.
@@momomomocensoredbyyoutube9085 w h a t
@@danieladiaz6800 It's sarcasm. I'm trying to make fun of people on Twitter.
13:47 her hair look 𝘴𝘰 𝘧𝘶𝘤𝘬𝘪𝘯𝘨 𝘣𝘢𝘥, what the hell
FR she looks like a bootleg Avril Lavigne 😭
Nah I think it looks kinda cool