{"id":43106,"date":"2024-03-10T09:50:44","date_gmt":"2024-03-10T13:50:44","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.cinema-crazed.com\/blog\/?p=43106"},"modified":"2024-03-10T09:50:44","modified_gmt":"2024-03-10T13:50:44","slug":"mean-girls-the-musical-2024","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.cinema-crazed.com\/blog\/2024\/03\/10\/mean-girls-the-musical-2024\/","title":{"rendered":"Mean Girls: The Musical (2024)"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Despite the flack that it received this year from a lot of anti-musical individuals that transformed \u201cMean Girls: The Musical\u201d in to a tik tok meme, at the end of it all Samantha Jayne and Arturo Perez Jr\u2019s film ended up being much ado about nothing. It can\u2019t be that narratives can\u2019t translate in to musicals since \u201cHairspray\u201d was excellent. But when all was said and done \u201cMean Girls: The Musical\u201d ended up being an okay movie. It wasn\u2019t what I\u2019d call awful, but it\u2019s by no means in the upper echelons of musicals like \u201cGrease\u201d or even \u201cTeen Beach Movie.\u201d<\/p>\n

It\u2019s a just fine, pretty okay movie that just made me want to rewatch the original classic.<\/p>\n

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New student Cady Heron gets welcomed into the top of the social food chain by an elite group of popular girls called the Plastics, ruled by the conniving queen bee Regina George. However, when Cady makes the major misstep of falling for Regina’s ex-boyfriend, she soon finds herself caught in their crosshairs.<\/p>\n

And I tried to be as unbiased as possible considering the 2004 original is one of my all time favorites, but \u201cMean Girls: The Musical\u201d always had that one indication where it could always go a bit further, but chose to stay as a middling adaptation of the original film. The return of Tina Fey and Tim Meadows does nothing to help the movie as they have reduced on screen appearances and are once again just there to remind us how much better the original movie is. Not to mention there\u2019s not a ton of focus on the whole animal kingdom allegory that made \u201cMean Girls\u201d so relevant, and still so relevant to this day. And I\u2019m not sure why they cast a charming actress like Jenna Fisher as Cady Heron\u2019s mom only for her to do literally nothing in the whole film.<\/p>\n

The numbers are all fairly forgettable and so many of the new twists on the original narrative completely miss the whole point of the message of 2004\u2019s \u201cMean Girls.\u201d Nevertheless, the cast are all talented and wonderful performers. I was especially a big fan of Renee Rapp as the new Regina George. She is just powerful and intimidating and emphasizes the LGBTQ vibe that the original film implied. Avantika Vandanapu is also very underrated as Karen, the bubble headed part of \u201cThe Plastics.\u201d She gets a great musical number singing about the Halloween party which leads into the big shifting of events in the film.<\/p>\n

I\u2019d be remiss if I didn\u2019t mention Jaquel Spivy as Damian, the film\u2019s narrator\/supporting character. He\u2019s not only immensely talented, but garners most of the film\u2019s laughs with ease. All the parts are there for a great movie, but none of it ever clicks together to create this lightning in a bottle spontaneity that amounts to great musicals. The problem with \u201cMean Girls: The Musical\u201d is that it\u2019s written like a dumb teen comedy, which \u201cMean Girls\u201d wasn\u2019t. It was a funny, relevant, and quite intelligent look not only at growing up but at the human dynamic as well.<\/p>\n

It\u2019s something the writers of the musical would have been wise to include.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Now Available on Digital Streaming. Despite the flack that it received this year from a lot of anti-musical individuals that transformed \u201cMean Girls: The Musical\u201d in to a tik tok meme, at the end of it all Samantha Jayne and Arturo Perez Jr\u2019s film ended up being much ado about nothing. It can\u2019t be that […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12],"tags":[64,219,1401,2123,700,874,1033],"class_list":["post-43106","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-movie-reviews","tag-adaptation","tag-comedy","tag-lgbt","tag-lgbtq","tag-musical","tag-romance","tag-teen"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cinema-crazed.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/43106","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cinema-crazed.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cinema-crazed.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cinema-crazed.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cinema-crazed.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=43106"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.cinema-crazed.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/43106\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":43108,"href":"https:\/\/www.cinema-crazed.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/43106\/revisions\/43108"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cinema-crazed.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=43106"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cinema-crazed.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=43106"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cinema-crazed.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=43106"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}