Can you have too much of a good thing – or even a mean thing? American actress and writer Tina Fey scored big in 2004 with the iconic Mean Girls. She wrote the screenplay and appears in the film as bespectacled Ms Norbury, maths teacher at an unremarkable Illinois high school – unremarkable in that it’s packed with all the characters you would expect in a ribald teen comedy: jocks, outcasts, science geeks and the glossy Alpha females who rule the school with a flick of the hair and a swing of the handbag.

Fey’s snobby crew are known to lesser mortals as The Plastics and they’re led by Regina (Rachel McAdams), ably assisted by rich girl Gretchen and her airhead best friend Karen (Amanda Seyfried).

Pitted against them are disapproving Goth Janis (Lizzy Caplan), who has a grudge against Regina, and Janis’s gay best friend, Damien. Into this set-up comes naïve newbie Cady (Lindsay Lohan, in her breakout role) who has been homeschooled in Africa by her zoologist parents until the age of 16. Which is why her response to Damien’s mention of Noughties film heartthrob Ashton Kutcher is to ask: ‘Is that a band?’ Well, it was funny in 2004.

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