What Musical and/or Movie Musical is your favorite???

Tina Fey invented “fetch” so that the 2004 movie didn’t use real slang that would date the film. And then the 2024 film was entirely comprised of outfits, slang, vertical videos and more that make it already feel dated. It’s a 2024 movie and it won’t carry on for future generations

honestly, they could've just tricked regine 2024 into having an acne breakout since beauty standards nowadays are already revolving more around skin and makeup

One thing though, Janice not being gay in the original and her bullying being the result of misinformation was a really good plot point. Yes, she looked like an early 2000s gay grunge girl but that’s why it worked so well, being herself on reinforced the false narrative people had about her which made her indifferent persona and rage very understandable. She was being mocked for being something she’s not but never fell in line and even made fun of the idea near the end! It’s a good example of breaking a stereotype and reinforcing the idea that girls are complex and doesn’t fit into the molds those stereotypes put them.

Why is the color grading of this movie so blue? It’s so obvious when placed next to OG Mean Girls. Everything looks washed out and sickly. Makes no sense for a teen girls musical

"Reneé Rapp deserved to be in a better movie" is exactly how I feel about this movie as a whole

Cutting Aaron’s singing parts and his duet w/ Cady before the third act was such a bizarre choice. Even the “trust-fall” scenes in the gym Don’t work or feel earned because we don’t have Cady’s inner-monologue or character development from the OG and the stage show. So when the camera pans or jump-cuts to her sitting in the bleacher’s, looking guilty, why should the audience care? Too many important character moments were combed over or not fleshed out enough

Honestly, as a character decision I feel like Regina wouldn’t sing about herself. Her presence as a character speaks for itself, but the themes if they’re borrowing from the original movie would usually show people around her talking about her more than she ever speaks about herself (which she rarely does). If they were writing new songs, in place of “Meet the Plastics” it should’ve been a song of the students around her singing about how amazing she is rather than her having a personally sang introduction.

I’m so sick of Hollywood removing problematic elements of a story because they don’t want to offend anyone. Life IS problematic and being candid about that fact in movies/tv is so important, not only to acknowledge that these problems EXIST but showing why/how those behaviors are harmful and what it means to be a good person, which the original Mean Girls exemplifies perfectly without being preachy.

i'm so sick of people who hate musicals trying to make movie musicals

Removing the weight insecurity to make the movie more modern reflects such a frustratingly common trend in media right now of removing character flaws and story beats out of fear that the audience cant tell the difference between a character flaw and that flaw being condoned by the filmmakers. 2004 Mean Girls was never glorifying disordered eating or fat shaming. It was depicting realistic insecurities that high school girls deal with. Taking that aspect out of the movie doesnt make the movie more body positive because the fat shaming and disordered eating was being portrayed as a harmful thing in the original!!

stop 👏hiring 👏actors 👏that 👏can't 👏play 👏the 👏role

I hate how remakes remove 'problematic' parts that were actually criticized and added for a reason.

That movie didn’t deserve Renee Rapp

Honestly when I heard that they took out Aaron's singing parts because they really wanted the actor made me so disappointed. And taking out Cady's songs because the actor can't sing. Like this is a musical, why are you casting actors that can't sing.

Something i hate about this move is the costuming outside of the halloween scenes. Regina isn’t meant to dress trendy, she doesn’t dress like ateenager she’s meant to seem extremely fashionable, the plastics aren’t normal teenagers, they need to stand out. Instead she looks like anormal teenager following normal trends rather than BEING the trend?

The main problem with the Mean Girls musical is that it is not mean. What do I mean by that? Yeah some of the humor and insults of the original movie have not aged well. But at the same time, to act as if girls like Regina do not exist is dishonest. To act as though homophobia, racism and cruelty and bullying do not exist at high school is dishonest. The original movie had a very relatable warning about becoming the monster you hate, something Cady went through as she sacrificed so much for her revenge against Regina and got nothing back in return. It’s a cautionary tale of a never ending cycle of this behavior not just amongst teenage girls in the case of Cady but amongst anyone in high school who has ever been bullied.

It’s called “Mean Girls” after all. As someone who grew up in the 2000s and had older siblings, I can’t overstate how h0mophobic teenagers were back then. In order to accurate depict high school, the movie had to be politically incorrect

Also why did everything in the reboot look kind of cheap? Even down to the lighting? Didn't they have the same budget as the original? I was confused as to why it was lit like a lifetime movie

We didn’t even get to meet “The Plastics” in the song Meet The Plastics.