7 Movies Like ‘Mean Girls’ if You Love the Teen Comedy

There’s nothing quite like the chaotic jungle of cafeteria cliques, bad boys, and mean girls in high school. And no one shows it off better than Tina Fey with Mean Girls. From an iconic performance of “Jingle Bell Rock” to a prom night full of tiara segments, the 2004 teen drama is SO fetch. 

For those who don’t know, the film follows Cady Heron (Lindsay Lohan) as she transitions from a homeschooled student in Africa to a public school student in Illinois. She quickly learns the cliques and cruel intentions of high school students, and finds herself wrapped up in the elitist, “plastic” lifestyle.  

Whether you’ve watched the film once or have it memorized, there’s something so captivating about watching the breakups, makeups, and girl fights unfold. Luckily, there are so many films that show off the same teenage drama in the same hilarious manner. So here are seven teen comedies that would never receive a page in the burn book. 

1. ‘Clueless’

   As if Clueless wouldn’t make it on our list! If you thought Cady’s glow-up was impressive, just wait for Tai Frasier’s. The transfer student goes from “tragically unhip” to totally cool with the help of Bronson Alcott High’s most fashionable ladies, Cher and Dionne. The cliques and characters of this film are just like those of Mean Girls, and with its budding romances and tight-knit girl gang, the 1995 film never gets old. 

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3. ‘John Tucker Must Die’

   From mean girls to bad boys, John Tucker Must Die shows us what happens when three girls from different cliques get played by the same boy. After discovering they’ve all been dating the same jerk, the girls — plus one new student — team up to get revenge on the charming cheater.

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4. ‘Easy A’

   Easy A stars Emma Stone as Olive Penderghast, a high school student who takes advantage of a salacious rumor about herself and pretends to sleep with the school’s most unpopular students. As a clever update to The Scarlet Letter, the hilarious 2010 comedy takes the longing for popularity seen in Mean Girls to a whole new level. 

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5. ‘Confessions of a Teenage Drama Queen’

   If you’re just as obsessed with Lindsay Lohan’s portrayal of teenage girls as we are, try watching Confessions of a Teenage Drama Queen. Like Cady, Lohan’s character Lola is the newbie in town who has to navigate a new high school. As a confident city girl and aspiring actress, she will do whatever it takes to achieve her goals, even if it means competing with the most popular girl in the school. 

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6. ‘Do Revenge’

   Inspired by Alfred Hitchcock’s Strangers on a Train, Netflix’s teen comedy Do Revenge centers on two very different girls who team up to get revenge on the people who have wronged them. With a plastic-like popular clique and a lesbian, outsider best friend, the film is essentially Mean Girls with a much darker twist.

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7. ‘The Duff’

   Like Cady, high school senior Bianca is on the outskirts of her popular clique. When she learns that her fellow students have dubbed her The Duff (Designated Ugly Fat Friend), Bianca is inspired to reinvent herself. She enlists the help of her childhood best friend, who also happens to be the school’s most handsome star athlete, to lose the demeaning title. 

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8. ‘Heathers’

   Before the Plastics, there were the Heathers, three-fourths of Westerburg High’s most popular clique. In the 1989 teen drama, Veronica, the fourth member of the group, unexpectedly falls for a rebellious new kid. Things take a killer turn when he starts murdering the popular kids and staging them as suicides. 

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