Mean Girls 2024's One Big Problem

The new 2024 Mean Girls musical has finally arrived on the big screen!  So, does this film adaptation of the Broadway musical of the classic early 2000s film really work? Today we're analyzing what they kept the same, what they updated for the better, and the one big change that doesn't really work. Plus we'll unpack why they tried so hard to hide the fact that this film is in fact a musical in all of the promo leading up to the release. Here's our take!


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CHAPTERS
00:00 A new Mean Girls 20 years later
00:21 What the new Mean Girls got right!
03:32 The biggest thing missing from the new movie
04:38 New vs Original Cady, Janis, and Regina
09:07 Why did they make it a musical?
11:12 So... should you see it?


CREDITS
Executive Producers: Debra Minoff & Susannah McCullough
Chief Creative Director: Susannah McCullough
Associate Producer: Jessica Babineaux
Writer: Jessica Babineaux
Narrator: Jessica Babineaux
Video Editor: Daniel Wolff

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