Mean Girls
This sharp, funny high school satire is firmly PG-13 territory: it packs in frequent crude language and sexual references, underage drinking, and sustained social bullying that forms the heart of the plot. The story does land on a positive message about honesty and kindness, but the road getting there is built for teens, not young kids.
Best suited to teens 13 and up, ideally with a parent nearby for the first watch.
If you’d rather skip
The 'Plastics' introduce their rigid social rules and begin recruiting Cady; sets up sustained bullying and exclusion behavior that continues through most of the film.
A male teacher makes sexually charged jokes in class and is later revealed to be in an illegal relationship with students; includes an on-screen kiss between the teacher and a teen girl.
Explicit commentary about girls dressing provocatively, using blunt sexual language; background music with audible profanity.