The 2004 Mean Girls was a staple of sleepovers when I was growing up. There’s no way to quantify how many times I’ve seen the movie, but it’s enough to be able to quote the entire thing front to back without it needing to be on. Naturally, when this movie, that's one of the best of the 2000s, was turned into a Broadway musical in 2017, and then a movie musical on the 2024 film schedule, I had to see it. However, despite the latest take on Mean Girls' positive reviews, it was not for me.
As a fan of both the original movie and musical adaptation, I was excited when the musical movie was announced. I became a fierce advocate for the fact that it wasn’t a remake since the trailer left many confused due to the lack of songs. Plus, I was fully behind the Mean Girls cast full of Gen-Z actors. I wanted to love this new version of the story, unfortunately, I left the theater with a ton of mixed feelings and none of them were fetch.
