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Message: [QUOTE="nelsonmuntz, post: 4998530, member: 833"] [B]Mean Girls 2024 [/B]- I watched this on an airplane the first time and thought "meh". Watched it a second time (also on an airplane), and it is surprisingly pretty good. It is a musical, which is actually a pretty good idea for a movie about teenage girls destroying each other. The songs keep the movie moving along so the remake has less dead time than the original. The remake is just fun. My only minor complaint about the remake is the way it handles the Janis Ian (Janis 'Imi"ike in 2024 version) character. Janis is arguably the meanest girl in the original, effectively the puppet master of an elaborate plot that results in the entire school turning on itself. In MG 2024, Janis is worse in some ways, because she is more upfront about her desire to destroy Regina and more obviously manipulative of Cady, but then there is a song near the end that seems to make it out like Janis is the victim. I liked that the original was completely unapologetic about ALL the girls' terrible behavior, not just the Plastics. The Plastics (Rachel McAdams, Lacey Chabert, Amanda Seyfried) and Lizzie Kaplan were so good in the original Mean Girls, I thought it would not be fair to cast a new set of actresses in what are truly iconic roles, but Tina Fey did a pretty good job overall. Renee Rapp is over the top, which is fine in a musical and for Regina George. Auli'i Cravalho and Avantika are really good as Janis and Karen. Bebe Wood is just ok as Gretchen. But, Angourie Rice is a HUGE upgrade over Lindsay Lohan as Cady Heron. Lohan is a terrible actress with her breathy line delivery and dead face, while Rice has a really expressive face and is much more relatable. Rice's demeanor changes during the movie as she becomes more powerful in the school so it is more believable when she takes power from Regina. The original was just such a good movie that people look past how terrible Lohan was in the leading role. I think Rice is going to be a big star. [/QUOTE]

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