10 Movies Everyone Is Embarrassed To Admit They Like

By Shaun Munro /

3. Mean Girls

Mean Girls, like Bring It On, is embarrassing to own up to liking as a 24-year-old male for a number of reasons - a) it stars Lindsay Lohan b) it's firmly aimed at 15-year-old girls and c) men have virtually no agency in the film at all. In spite of all this, the film works because of Tina Fey's supremely smart script. To naive youngsters, the film is simply a tell-all about high-school life, but when viewed a few years later, it becomes something very different indeed. Watched as an adult, Mean Girls is a ripe satire of the craziness of the high school experience; the cliques, the fleeting popularity, and how, at the end of the day, none of it really matters. Though one might suggest that I can't relate to much of it given that I'm not nor have ever been a young girl, I must admit that I find its unexpectedly witty humour extremely funny, and Lindsay Lohan delivers a star performance as the immensely likeable protagonist. Lohan's current reputation doesn't exactly make it any easier to admitting to liking it though.