There was a beautiful era in the 90s/early 00s of fun, female lead teen movies that just hit different, were like this golden age of girls just being girls and celebrating that feeling, and no matter how Hollywood tries they will never replicate it.
I'm talking "She's the Man," "Bend it Like Beckham" "Princess Dairies" "St. Trinian's" "What a Girl Wants" "Clueless" "Uptown Girls" "John Tucker Must Die" "DEBS".....obviously there's probably a few I missed but you get the idea.
Maybe the stakes weren't as high as saving the entire world, but they were important to the characters and had friendships and silliness and the goal was almost never to get the guy and you just don't get to see that anymore.
Also almost all of them had banging soundtracks.
“This is your own fault, Mr Owen,” Jemima, the St Trinian’s Head Girl tutted, as she tightened the gagged, blindfolded and naked school inspector’s bonds, making them as uncomfortable as she could, “you just had to come back at night to investigate our little gambling operation, didn’t you?”
The gasping man, mmmmphing beneath the cloth gag that Jemima had tied so expertly over his mouth after catching the curious rookie inspector creeping around the the school cellar and intimidating him into surrender, could now barely move as the terrifying Head Girl made sure there would be no second escape attempt. “Toodle pip!” the 18 year old statuesque blonde told the captive cheerily after she had finished. “I have to supervise the movement of all incriminating equipment to a new location thanks to you. Don’t go anywhere now!”
Excellent colour bondage illustration by Harold inspired I think by the Pinewood movie The Pure Hell of St Trinian’s (1960)