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Evening Standard
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Maddy Mussen

Mean Girls movie review: this blunt musical retread should be confined to the Burn Book

Apologies to the hopeful, trusting minority of Mean Girls fans who were expecting the movie version of the stage musical interpretation of the hit 2004 film to be good. It is not.

This almost two-hour retelling of a film many already know like the back of their hand has the exact same plot, except much of the dialogue has been replaced with singing and dancing and most of the cast replaced by younger less charistmatic iterations of their predecessors.

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