By Kayla Ito
Here are our top 5 movies from the early 2000’s. Enjoy!
5. Mean Girls (2004)
Cady Heron (Lindsay Lohan) was educated in Africa by her scientist parents when she was a teenager. Cady finally attends public school when her family relocates to the suburbs of Illinois, where she learns about the brutal, unspoken norms of popularity that divide her classmates into tight-knit cliques. Cady finds herself accidentally in the good graces of an elite group of cool teenagers known as “the Plastics,” but she quickly understands how her shallow group of new pals gained this moniker.
4. 13 Going on 30 (2004)
A girl who is fed up with the social constraints of junior high is converted into an adult in an instant. Jenna (Christa B. Allen) wants a boyfriend in this feel-good fairy tale, and when she can’t find one, she fantasises about being a well-adjusted adult. Her hidden wish comes true, and she is changed into a 30-year-old woman (Jennifer Garner). Adulthood, however, comes with its own set of male-female issues and isn’t as simple as it appears.
3. Superbad (2007)
Two inseparable best friends are invited to a massive home party in the final weeks of high school. They spend a long day with their nerdy friend attempting to procure enough alcohol to furnish the party and inebriate two females in order to kick-start their sex lives before heading off to college. Their mission is complicated when one of them meets two unskilled cops who are determined to have a good time with him.
2. Freaky Friday (2003)
Tess Coleman (Jamie Lee Curtis) and her adolescent daughter Anna (Lindsay Lohan) are diametrically opposed, and it’s driving them both mad. The two wake up the next day to find that they had switched bodies after obtaining cryptic fortunes at a Chinese restaurant. They are unable to switch back and are forced to impersonate one another until a solution is found. They gain a new feeling of regard and understanding for one another in the process.
1. Legally Blonde (2001)
Elle Woods (Reese Witherspoon) is a woman with everything. She aspires to be Mrs. Warner Huntington III beyond all else. However, he (Matthew Davis) is unable to propose since she is too blond. Elle marshals her money and enrols at Harvard, desperate to reclaim him.