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Mean Girls (2024)

 

Mean Girls is a musical remake of the beloved cult classic of the same name in 2004.

I understand trying new directors but Tina Fey and Lorne Michaels should have helped Samantha Jayne out by teaching her the ropes. The film follows the same beats as the original and as such the only real problem was the casting and direction.

Angourice Rice plays Cady this time around. She was the only saving grace for the film as everyone else other than the returning cast is miscast. You might remember Rice from The Nice Guys and Betty from Spider-Man: Homecoming. 

Regina, this time around, is played by the twenty-four-year-old Rinee Rapp who looks like she's thirty. The make-up artists had their work cut out for her as Renee just has a mature face and body. One of the things about looking cool or hot, the harder you try the less you look like what you're going for. Rapp is trying so hard to look like the hot girl at school. She just doesn't pull it off. 

Avantika was funny but didn't deliver her lines as well as Amanda Seyfried did in the first. Bebe Wood plays Gretchen and my glowing regard for Lacey Chabert has made her performance not match up. 

The fact this film was made suggests Tina Fey has nothing left to say in terms of comedy. The music could have gone through some rewrites too. Result: D-


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