5. Mean Girls (2007)
Why It Had No Right To Be Any Good: It Sounded So Easy To Screw Up It feels impossible to imagine a time where Lindsay Lohan's name could be associated with a product of genuine quality, but
Mean Girls is only a decade old, which seems like a relatively short period given how many crimes the troubled actress has managed to squeeze in since. So here's a movie that probably shouldn't have been any good at all, given the premise and title alone, but somehow made it through to the end with its dignity in tact. That mainly happened because Disney were smart enough to put Tina Fey on script duties, and to allow the movie room to breathe so that it didn't feel like we were watching a manufactured, Disney-esque high school. From the marketing material alone (and even the trailer, to be honest) we all were probably expecting a tame and forgettable teen romp, and yet
Mean Girls is none of those things: it's very arguably a classic of the sub-genre.