MEAN GIRLS Movie Musical - News & Discussion Thread — Page 8

Considering the murkiness of Hollywood economics, if this does open to ~ $30M and has normal-to-decent legs, it should be fine economically. I noticed a few sponsorship endorsements too, which helps the bottom line. And I expect it will get tons of views once it hits streaming.

A solid start to the year for a studio that was referred to as "a melting ice cube" by Hollywood Reporter the other day.

Rentaholic2 said: "I've never seen the stage production, but it sounds like both it and this movie are placed in present day? That's disappointing. Mean Girls is a millennial period piece in my view, and a lot of its humor and dialogue is very rooted in that time period. Do kids these days say words like "fugly"? (I know from the cast album that at least that word is still used)."

If you haven't seen either stage version or the new movie, then you don't know Tina Fey updated the book in 2018 and then again in 2023. Both new versions feel current. Funny to me that you said moving it to present day was "disappointing" and that it's a "millennial period piece" without having actually seen the revised versions. Why do people here talk like this all the time? So matter of fact, with zero actual facts.

itsahopi said: "Rentaholic2 said: "I've never seen the stage production, but it sounds like both it and this movie are placed in present day? That's disappointing. Mean Girls is a millennial period piece in my view, and a lot of its humor and dialogue is very rooted in that time period. Do kids these days say words like "fugly"? (I know from the cast album that at least that word is still used)."

If you haven't seen either stage version or the new movie, then you don't know Tina Fey updated the book in 2018 and then again in 2023. Both new versions feel current. Funny to me that you said moving it to present day was "disappointing" and that it's a "millennial period piece" without having actually seen the revised versions. Why do people here talk like this all the time? So matter of fact, with zero actual facts."

I obviously know she updated the book. I was expressing my disappointment in the idea that they would change the time period of the story. I can have that opinion without having seen the updated versions. People here talk like this all the time because it’s a chat board. It’s for chatting. And I chatted my chat.

Was this a hot mess!? Absolutely! Was it fun? Sure. Renee Rapp was wasted in this and never got the sense she was “mean”

The last fifteen minutes of the movie were so crazy rushed. Stars was a waste of a song. Loved it in the stage show but this was messy as the lead actress can’t sing to save her life so they got someone else to sing the song in the background. Why not ?

The only pro thing about it was Auli'i

Anyway go see it after a couple of drinks. Just make sure you have a barf bag as the camera spins and spins.

Some of the one liners are funny.

Updated On: 1/14/24 at 01:24 PM

I do wonder how much the upcoming West End production will be impacted, if any, by the updated tour production and film adaptation.

Saw this this afternoon & thought it was fun & fine. Better than some reports above make it out.

Had debated seeing Color Purple instead but found that it has been pulled from nearly every theatre in Western Canada. Reading reports online that it tanked quite badly after its opening day.

Hopefully Mean Girls does better & has legs.

Saw this over the weekend. I was shocked how much I enjoyed this. Not nearly as good as the original, but nothing could be. They really improved the musical so much and the cast is great, Avantika and Renee especially. I thought Someone Gets Hurt was a particular highlight.

When I left my best friend and I (the musical came out our senior year of highschool) said if this movie came out then we would have been so obsessed with it. Hope all the young theatre kids are loving it!

Re Angourie Rice: when I googled her just now I learned she was in three Spiderman films, so maybe they thought she might get recognition from younger audiences?

This version doesn't seem to be marketed as much as a vehicle around her as the original was for Lyndsay Lohan.

This was not as good as the original, especially with Cady's and Janis' actresses, but Regina was perfect and this was a good time. The costumes were amazing! And, does anyone feel Cady, lackluster as she was, was so much like a younger (and less good) Amy Adams, Amy would have been perfectly cast as her mom, and it would have been really uncanny?

I thought this was pretty good and fun.
The actors who played Aaron Samuels and Cady Heron were SEVERELY miscast. It was ruining the film for me.