UPDATE: The link to Piper’s review has been fixed.
Piper has reviewed Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind and Mean Girls, both of which I’ve seen. ESotSM is one of the few movies I saw in the theatre this year that I didn’t review, mostly because of time constraints, but also because it was a visually arresting film with a Charlie Kaufman story, the combination of which makes for a difficult analysis, IMHO. I’ll make a stab at reviewing it once I watch it again on DVD.
Mean Girls was par for the course in teen comedies, precisely why I liked it a lot less than Napoleon Dynamite, which was a lot more offbeat and asynchronous. Tina Fey wrote a decent script, but the story is simply teen comedy version 2004. Unremarkable in nearly every way.