Mean Girls (2004)

93 min · Comedy

USPG-13UK12AAUMCA14A

55 BOLD

ScoutScore

Heads up before you watch. Notable content.

Mean Girls scores 55 on the ScoutScore, which is Bold. Heads up before you watch. Notable content. FilmScout maps 30 flagged scenes and 1 marked caution.

A ScoutScore is a living number. We re-check movies against the source and raise or lower it when we find something the first pass missed, so a score you see today can differ from one you saw last month.

What FilmScout flagged

Heads up	29
Caution	1

Content map

How the scenes we flagged in this movie divide up by kind. These are shares of what was flagged, not a level, and not a promise about anything we did not flag: a movie with very little flagged content can still be 80% one kind.

Flagged for themes with sexual content.

Scary and dark	11%
Violence and action	3%
Themes	33%
Sexual content	26%
Substances	4%
Language	23%
All flagged content	100%

Direction is the kind of content flagged. Reach is the ScoutScore, which is how much there is: green at the centre, yellow, orange, then red at the dotted line, which is 100. The scale has no ceiling, so a shape can cross it.

Scenes FilmScout flagged

Heads up Joke about religion and homosexuals
Heads up Casual deity exclamations
Heads up Boys discussing whether they saw a nipple
Heads up Damian introduced as 'almost too gay to function'
Heads up Sex-ed class: abstinence lecture and condom distribution
Heads up Janis introduces Regina George with crude insults
Heads up Name-calling cluster - first half
Heads up Shopping mall and Planned Parenthood prank call
Heads up Regina fakes a Planned Parenthood call as a prank
Heads up Regina's house - Burn Book and mom's alcohol offer

Where each one lands in the runtime, and alerts that arrive before it does, are in the app.

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Age ratings by country

AU	M
CA	14A
GB	12A
US	PG-13

Talk about it after

“Cady starts out just observing the cruelty of Girl World from the outside, but gradually finds herself doing the same things she was judging. What do you think made it so easy for her to slip into that behavior without noticing?”

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Common questions

Is Mean Girls okay for kids?

Mean Girls scores 55 on FilmScout's ScoutScore, which places it in the Bold tier. Heads up before you watch. Notable content. FilmScout has mapped 30 flagged scenes in it, covering sexual content, profanity (mild), theme. The right answer depends on your child, which is why FilmScout shows you the scenes instead of giving a verdict.

What is the ScoutScore for Mean Girls?

55, which is the Bold tier. The ScoutScore is driven by the intensity of a movie's heaviest moments rather than how many it has.

What is Mean Girls rated?

Mean Girls is rated PG-13 in the United States. Ratings differ by country: AU M, CA 14A, GB 12A, US PG-13. A letter rating stamps a whole movie at once, so FilmScout scores it scene by scene instead.

Is it OK for your kid? The age-by-age answer

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