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In Theaters Now
- 2024
- PG-13
- Paramount Pictures
- 1 h 52 m
- 2024
- PG-13
- Paramount Pictures
- 1 h 52 m
Summary New student Cady Heron (Angourie Rice) is welcomed into the top of the social food chain by the elite group of popular girls called “The Plastics,” ruled by the conniving queen bee Regina George (Reneé Rapp) and her minions Gretchen (Bebe Wood) and Karen (Avantika). However, when Cady makes the major misstep of falling for Regina’s ex-bo...
Directed By: Samantha Jayne, Arturo Perez Jr.
Written By: Tina Fey, Rosalind Wiseman
In Theaters Now
- 2024
- PG-13
- Paramount Pictures
- 1 h 52 m
- 2024
- PG-13
- Paramount Pictures
- 1 h 52 m
Mean Girls
58
2.8
Where to Watch
Summary New student Cady Heron (Angourie Rice) is welcomed into the top of the social food chain by the elite group of popular girls called “The Plastics,” ruled by the conniving queen bee Regina George (Reneé Rapp) and her minions Gretchen (Bebe Wood) and Karen (Avantika). However, when Cady makes the major misstep of falling for Regina’s ex-bo...
Directed By: Samantha Jayne, Arturo Perez Jr.
Written By: Tina Fey, Rosalind Wiseman
Where to Watch
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Metascore
Mixed or Average
Based on 47 Critic Reviews
58
51% Positive
24 Reviews
24 Reviews
43% Mixed
20 Reviews
20 Reviews
6% Negative
3 Reviews
3 Reviews
Metascore
Mixed or Average
Based on 47 Critic Reviews
58
51% Positive
24 Reviews
24 Reviews
43% Mixed
20 Reviews
20 Reviews
6% Negative
3 Reviews
3 Reviews
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.
User Score
Generally Unfavorable
Based on 149 User Ratings
2.8
22% Positive
33 Ratings
33 Ratings
11% Mixed
17 Ratings
17 Ratings
66% Negative
99 Ratings
99 Ratings
User Score
Generally Unfavorable
Based on 149 User Ratings
2.8
22% Positive
33 Ratings
33 Ratings
11% Mixed
17 Ratings
17 Ratings
66% Negative
99 Ratings
99 Ratings
I was nervous going into this film, luckily for me, Tina Fey just doesnt miss. I was lucky enough to have 2 great mean girls films in my lifetime. The choreography and set pieces on these musical pieces are definitely on point. With Janis's standout performance in "I'd rather be me" having a 1 take tracking shot for a majority of the song. Songs like revenge party with the cartoonlike school hallways sequences, "Somebody gets hurt" with its halloween themed song. Even Karen's song "Sexy" having a great dance choreography, starting off as a Tik Tok Short and working its way into a I complete tour of Aarons party with amazing tracking shots and dance choreography. I would highly recommend this movie to anyone who has or hasn't seen the original.
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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.
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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.
A perfect blend of the original film and Broadway musical, along with inventive visual elements and new jokes to create a worthy companion to both movie and musical. It is it's own thing. Most importantly, I smiled from ear to ear through the entire film and throughly enjoyed the ride. An incredibly talented cast backed by inventive filmmaking and choreography. There were so many visual jokes, I'll want to rewatch again and again. But the musical arrangements, colorful pop, and creative use of film styles and aspect ratios make this a wonderful cinematic experience. Dance, don't walk, to your nearest movie house.
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Enquanto o primeiro "Meninas Malvadas" (Mean Girls), dirigido por Mark Waters, tem um ritmo estonteante e reflete muito bem a juventude da época (mesmo de forma caricata), a montagem do filme é responsável pela fluidez e pela mensagem que serviu muito bem para captar o espírito da época. Já este aqui, sobre com o ritmo, e nem falo tanto dos números musicais, além de ficar muito limitado ao original.
Nesta nova produção, muita coisa permanece, como a protagonista que vem de um lugar distante (aqui brincam com a xenofobia numa boa sacada) e os personagens também se repetem, em especial, claro, o grupo das "mean girls" liderado pela Regina George. Mas se antes tínhamos nomes como Rachel McAdams ou Lindsay Lohan, por mais limitadas que fossem suas representações, aqui não sobra muita coisa, cabendo ao roteiro conferir certa dignidade ao material.
O filme aborda questões comuns da adolescência, como popularidade, rivalidade, pressão social e a busca pela aceitação. Uma das principais críticas à juventude no filme é a maneira como os comportamentos tóxicos e competitivos das chamadas "abelhas rainhas", mas infelizmente esperava uma pegada mais moderna e com cara de século XXI. Foram poucas as atualizações do texto nesse sentido.
Vale ressaltar que o filme é baseado no livro "Queen Bees and Wannabes" de Rosalind Wiseman, e a roteirista do primeiro filme, Tina Fey, embora não assine o roteiro, faz uma participação especial no longa. Contudo, infelizmente o filme se apega muito ao material original, e de forma pouco fluida, tendo que correr em alguns momentos para narrar a história. Veja as apresentações no show de final de ano, ficaram péssimas comparadas ao original. Mas não apenas isso. Havia um mundo de possibilidades a explorar, como por exemplo o das redes sociais (a piada com Spotify funciona, mas faltou muito mais). A exposição nas mídias ficou devendo.
Assim, "Meninas Malvadas" ainda preserva o texto em tom de sátira, que utiliza humor para abordar questões sérias, e ao fazer isso, oferece uma crítica social às dinâmicas tóxicas e desafiadoras enfrentadas pelos jovens durante o ensino médio, mas que poderia ir muito além se tivesse sido lapidado a conferir uma nova identidade, mais atual. Do jeito que foi apresentado, pode até soar como homenagem ao original, mas apenas 20 anos depois, com atuações piores e cenas mais constrangedoras, torna-se um trabalho nada mais do que redundante, em que pese algumas cenas e tiradas divertidas (muito por conta do primeiro).
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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.
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Production Company
Paramount Pictures,
Broadway Video,
Little Stranger
Release Date Jan 12, 2024
Duration 1 h 52 m
Rating PG-13
Tagline Plastic is forever.
Website
https://www.meangirls.com/
Awards
The Queerties
• 1 Nomination
Australian Academy of Cinema and Television Arts (AACTA) Awards
• 1 Nomination
