10 "Guilty Pleasure" Movies You Shouldn't Be Ashamed To Love

9. Mean Girls (2004)

Most female fans have no qualms about stating their love for Mean Girls, of course, and why should they? Tina Fey's script, based on the non-fiction book "Queen Bees and Wannabes," is far smarter than it appears at first glance - the problem with this one's guilty pleasure status tends to arise from male viewers who can't seem to resist its charms. "I hate to admit it, but I like Mean Girls," is something you might hear once in a while from a frustrated male movie fan who can't put a finger on exactly why he feels that way.

Truth is, Mean Girls is both great fun and great satire. So whereas this flick has all the genetic makeup of a movie that pretty much asks us to hate it (it's a film with Lindsay Lohan set in a high school and it's called "Mean Girls") it's also one entry to the teen movie canon that managed to transcend its origins: the key to the movie's appeal is that Fey doesn't look down upon her subjects - she sends them up whilst assuring that she takes their points of view into consideration at the same time. Characters who could have been mere stereotypes are still real people. And it doesn't hurt that it's never boring for even a second.