Group 20: Analysis of 3 Teen Movies With Different Audiences

Mean Girls

'Mean Girls' is a teen film set in an American High school, and is about a girl who starts at the school and gets convinced to go along with a plan to bring down the most popular girl in school. She is brought into the group referred to as 'The Plastics', and works from the inside to bring them down and ruin their reputation. The target audience for this movie appears to be mainly females between the ages of 13-25 as it explores popularity, boy troubles, fights within friendship groups, and general school life, all of which are themes occurring in the lives if females around these ages. This film was first released in 2004, and is still a popular teen film to this day, with a sequel later released titled 'Mean Girls 2'. The genres include comedy, romance, and drama.

Stars of the film include:

Lindsey Lohan

Rachel McAdams

Jonathan Bennet

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The Hunger Games

The Hunger Games is a film set in America, which is about a country split into 12 districts, and each year, two people from each district are put into an arena to fight to to the death. The film is the genre of action/sci-fi, and has a target audience of both males and females from the age of 13 and above. This movie has themes of death/loss, romance, thrilling action, and violence. It was released in 2012, and based on a series of books written by Suzan collins, and there has since been a second movie, along with a number of other sequels being made. It was and still is immensely popular, and contains a number of huge stars, who's big profiles may have been a contributing factor to the success of the movie.

Stars of the movie include:

Jennifer Lawrence

Liam Hemsworth

Josh Hutcherson

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High School Musical

High School Musical is a film set in an American high school, and is about a group of students from different cliques coming together and becoming friends through the schools musical. The movie was released in 2006, and was so popular that is was followed by two sequels. The target audience for this film is both males and females between the ages of 10-16, as it includes typical themes of high school, but is more child friendly than a range of other teen movies. The genres include romance and musical.

Stars of the film include:

Zac Efron