Mean Girls

Rapp, who originated the role of Regina on Broadway, is a force-of-nature knockout, honouring but not imitating Rachel McAdams’s beautiful bullying from the first film with a sly kind of menace.

This “Mean Girls” may be a sugarcoated object lesson about unhealthy, ingrained behaviors, but it’s no downer.

Bigger, brassier, and gayer than its predecessor, Mean Girls (2024) is a saccharine overload of cinematic bombast.

The new “Girls” sticks to the script plotwise, to a slavish degree. Even Fey and Tim Meadows playing their old teacher roles seems forced and uninspired. It’s only when the movie remembers it’s a musical that it refreshingly breaks from the norm.

A little more than a remake yet less than a makeover, Tina Fey’s watchable, well-cast revisit needed more daring to be wholly worthwhile.

It’s a sanitized, Cliff’s Notes version of the original with a few songs thrown in. It’ll be great for audiences to see Renee Rapp, if they don’t know of her already, but she’s not in it enough to help save the rest of the film. This may not be your mother’s “Mean Girls” but it’s doubtful it’ll be anyone’s.

A shot-for-shot remake would have had more school spirit than this.

This fresh and inventive take beautifully blends great callbacks from the original with the best of the Broadway musical. The updates are fresh and fun, and expertly showcase how high school kids experience the world through social media. The songs and choreography are a feast! So many great cameos and Easter eggs- don’t miss the one at the end of the credits! This movie is SO. MUCH. FUN. Great cast, great visuals, great message. Can’t wait to go again! My review? So fetch.

The movie wants to be me. Let me get this straight: this is an adaptation of the musical, so slow down if you are going to consider this a remake, just like "Matilda". And this is not a case with "Charlie & the Chocolate Factory" since Tim Burton's version was just his own superior iteration. What I said when I said that ^"the movie wants to be me"^, it is because "Mean Girls" is a girly girl thing - as somebody who does some girly things, given pink is my favourite colour whilst I can still do gender neutral or even masculine things, this movie can be targeted towards me. Also, I actually love musicals since I live music & music/songs can give me captivating energy. "Mean Girls" does have problems, given that I have been met with people who disliked it. Listen, unless it was trying to be comedic, it might be so ungreat, it is laughable & I found the acting meh whenever there were songs. Do YOU think it was OK to have modern day items in this "Mean Girls" not from 2004? At least it had heart.

It's an OK movie. The story is just ok. Songs are decent. Lead actors did decent acting. It should be alright for a one time watch.

Fizeram um músical, bobo, genérico,sem sal, músicas chatas e irritantes,deixaram os personagens chatos, mais a atuação estão legazinhas

I really wanted to like this, but it felt like watching a Gen Z Disney Channel made-for-tv musical movie. By Gen Z, I mean what boomers think Gen Z is...which is basically just everyone has phones, everyone is on social media, and a good chunk of the movie is in "snapchat" vertical format just to drive the point home. Most movies are made to be "timeless" but this movie will age poorly due to how it hits you over the head that these are Gen Z teenagers. I'm usually the one saying **** to people saying a movie is too PC or **** this is the first time I feel like I can't really fault someone for saying that (sans using a stupid word like "woke"). It's basically sanitized from both the original movie and musical to remove anything that might be **** references to body image are removed, some of the "crude" jokes from an originally PG-13 movie were removed, etc. There's also just a lot of character swaps, relationship swaps, Katy doesn't have a dad in the picture, Janice is actually a lesbian instead of just being called one, etc. Thy also changed the characters last names to have a last name that is more traditionally tied to their race which is **** an effort to make a more diverse cast, you're giving them stereotypical last names...ooook. Also it has to be said the marketing on this movie was very questionable. They decided to not call it Mean Girls: The Musical and hid that it was a musical in the several trailers. Apparently they don't understand that yes, people might not like **** they like cash-grab remakes even less and that's all it comes off as without the distinction that this is a movie adaptation of the Broadway musical. Speaking of which, like half the songs are missing, one was replaced with a new song, lyrics are changed to be less offensive or just more modern references, and they hired an actor that can't sing so all of Aaron's vocals are completely cut. There's also some songs that are cut short and the singing is basically just replaced with the spoken lines from the original movie instead...like word for word the original movie. It's like the movie can't decide if it actually wants to be a musical or a rehash of the original movie. The style of the new renditions of the songs are like those top 40 pop/adult-contemporary female artists that sing empowering "anthem" songs but you can never remember their names. The monotone unenthusiastic delivery of the main character doesn't help either. Renee Rapp is Regina George which is the one good choice to carry her over from the actual musical, but even she couldn't save this for me. This movie has nothing worthy of a second watch to me. I love the movie, I love the **** this just doesn't equal the sum of its parts.