Mean Girls – Movie Review
ABC Film Challenge – Catch-Up 2024 – M
Director: Samantha Jayne, Arturo Perez Jr
Writer: Tina Fey (Screenplay)
Writer: Rosalind Wiseman (Book)
Cast
- Angourie Rice (The Nice Guys)
- Renee Rapp (The Sex Lives of College Girls)
- Auli’I Cravalho (Moana)
- Jaquel Spivey
- Avantika (Tarot)
Plot: Cady Heron is a hit with the Plastics, an A-list girl clique at her new school. But everything changes when she makes the mistake of falling for Aaron Samuels, the ex-boyfriend of alpha Plastic Regina George.
Runtime: 1 Hour 52 Minutes
There may be spoilers in the rest of the review
Story: Mean Girls starts when Cady (Rice) leaves her Kenyan home to attend a normal American high school. She finds it hard to fit in until Janis (Cravalho) and Damian (Spivey) give her the basics to survive. However, she catches the eye of popular girl clique Regine George (Rapp), who wants to bring her under her wing.
When Cady spends time with Regina, she learns about the darkest personality where she puts everyone down. However, Cady notices Regina’s ex-boyfriend Aaron (Briney). It leaves Cady in the targeting of her vicious side and she must fight back.
Verdict on Mean Girls
Mean Girls is a musical remake of the popular high school comedy. It follows a student who joins an American high school and faces off against a popular bully girl who controls everyone. She must use what she learnt in the wild to overcome the problem and save the school.
This movie brings the stage version of the movie to life. It is filled with musical numbers that seem mostly out of place. This depends on the high school experience, which most movies have changed and evolved, while this feels like it is still stuck in the early 2000s. The best way to judge this is to see if you enjoyed the original, you would get a kick out of it. However, it doesn’t seem to bring anything new to the table.
Where to Watch
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Final Thoughts –Mean Girls feels like an early 2000s high school and not in a good way.
