I’m a lesbian so I had zero critical thought about this movie. I went for Reneé Rapp, stayed for Reneé, and all thoughts about this film since I’ve seen it are Reneé
Bisexual in a happy relationship with a man and absolutely same. Saw the movie and messaged my best friend like “is it weird the mean girls musical is doing something to me rn”
I loved renee but i wish they dressed them all so differently. The plastics aren’t supposed to be reality. They r plastic they r fake!!! They need to be out there with heels on and trendy dresses and skirts today that people DO wear.
I think my biggest gripe with this movie is just how ashamed it is of being a musical? All the songs are void of energy, the numbers are filmed like music videos, many songs were cut out or cut short and it’s as if the fun of musical theater was completely left out of the equation. And then you know, every trailer and promotional material leaving out the fact that this movie was a musical kinda just confirms it.
The entire reason I was avoiding this movie like the plague when we just had the trailer because I did not realize it was a musical until it already came out. And then I didn't see it because it was bad but me thinking oh it's just a remake because it's been enough years since the original gave me zero interest in seeing it
Well I honestly think cutting songs and shortening them down was a good decision, a lot of people dont like changes when addapting stories from book to movie, book to theatre, theatre to movie, etc. But they shouldnt because theyre different mediums and when theatre is song heavy it works and looks good, but when movies are song heavy it looks stupid and feels silly.
Also the most of the main characters can’t sing😭😭😭 this movie is a musical and they chose main leads who cant sing and chose supporting cast who will eat them up.
Yeah the falling down thing is weird. It’s like they wanted to remove the fat-shaming (in the musical everyone turns on Regina because her skirt comes off and everyone sees her big butt) but couldn’t actually think of anything to replace it with. I’m a teacher. Trust me when I say today’s kids still engage in bullying. There could have been something better there.
@@seakhajiit yeah I agree, I thought the implication was that she'd gained weight and couldn't do the stunt anymore. That along with the giant boom when she fell felt like they were trying to imply it was fat-shaming while being able to deny it in case they got flack for it.
I think the problem is that in the original movie, there was no big moment when the entire school turned against Regina. Regina's downfall comes from the plastics rejecting her, not from the entire school making fun of her. Both the musical and movie musical decided to change this and neither of it is realistic. Honestly, they should've stuck with the original plot: have the talent show be the start of Cady's rise instead of the end of Regina's fall, the first moment when she really takes the reins from Regina. Make it feel more natural that Gretchen and Karen are willing to follow her when she already had a moment of leading them.
I would probably kill someone to get my hands on a good quality slime tutorial of Cameron Dallas on Mean Girls. It's so bad it's basically an urban legend at this point. I need to see that it's real or I refuse to believe it's not an elaborate prank.
@@cami_cosmos I want this to be true so bad. That's hilarious. What I heard is just the usual they wanted to drive ticket sale and they figured his majorly pre-teen girl audience would splurge on tickets to watch the musical. And since they're a part of the target audience it would work. Which is plausible but not as funny.
The "Not your mother's mean girls" thing is funny to me because she was 32 when it came out and 100% not he target audience. She didn't watch it until we got it on dvd in the mid 10's
Let’s not say that cause they casted Renee rapp as Regina and whoever played Damien, oh my god. Chef’s kiss. Those two decisions right there were the BEST options 😂
this isn’t your mother’s mean girls-it’s worse. also the promotional tagline of “this isn’t your mother’s mean girls” is so weird to me…like yes 2004 was 20 years ago but i don’t think the parents of the gen alpha kids they’re trying to target were the demographic for the original movie. millennials and gen z both have nostalgia and affection for the original movie so they’re not targeting those groups. some older millennials might have tweenagers that are interested in mean girls but gen z definitely doesn’t have kids that would be old enough to care. the oldest members of gen alpha are 13 or 14 years old so i feel like most of them are still a bit too young for mean girls or they probably already saw the original movie because it’s still a part of pop culture.
It's part of the extremely small cycles of nostalgia designed to make you "feel old." I put in quotes bc I try not to buy into that way of thinking. The same thing happened when they revived High School Musical less than 10 years after the last one came out....the same gen z-millenial cuspers who loved HSM were now graduating college, at peak time of hyper nostalgia and reminiscing on childhood and as we know from the absolute lunacy of skincare/beauty/health industry/patriarchy, were already in prime position to be made to feel bad about aging and becoming adults with responsibilities (why???!this is what we were primed to do??). Not to say this was the *only* purpose of reviving that intellectual property lol but it's definitely a tactic companies find lucrative right now. That's why the marketing of "not your mother's mean girls" is not really made to make sense. It is mainly meant to make young people feel old and children feel older and more mature. Sure, the math could work out for *some* people, but it's more about the feeling. They're basically wanting to say: "This is new, this is shiny, let's continue some imaginary generation war to idk distract from EVERYTHING else?" When you're a child and a teenager, adulthood feels *so* far away. 10 years feels like a lifetime. And it makes sense since even a year is such a big percentage of the time you've been on earth. It's truly not personal, brands, and their ideas about you just want to imprint themselves in your mind when you're young and then poke at it the rest of your life lol nothing major I say all this cause it's fine even wonderful to enjoy a property being revived you enjoy or to be sad about it but every single day we're innundated with agism-- like we're seeing even 9 year old girls are stressed about aging--and it's all constructed (in sooo many ways)!! We are the ones who they want to influence, we have the power here to enjoy what we enjoy and not get caught in all the ridiculousness!! Lol I realized a wrote a bunchh
Among my peers, about 15% have children, and the oldest ones are like in 5th grade, i.e, they are not the target audience. And we graduated in 2005, one year after the movie was released. So yes, this line makes no sence whatsoever.
The thing is Angorie’s not a BAD singer she’s just not a theatre singer, which is fine but then why would they chose her for a musical. I will say I think they nailed the casting of Janis and Damian. I’m biased because I’ve played Damian but I think the two of them are one of the most fun parts of the musical. But the difference is they have theatre-y voices. Jaquel Spivey is an award winning Broadway performer (and yet they cut his songs for some reason-) and Auliʻi Cravalho has played two different Disney Princesses. Theatre singing involves more character than pop singing, it’s a different kind of training. Anyway, I liked Mr. Duvall and Ms. Norbury being together, that was a fun nod to the original film. Also thank you Harry for being our resident musical theatre fan commentary RU-vidr so we can rant about our theatre thoughts!
Definitely agree on Janis and Damian, they were some of the best parts of this movie. Auli’i brought an interesting energy to Janis and I really enjoyed her performance.
It's not a joke! It's on his tiktok but people were saying that the new songs from the movie sounded like smth danny would make, so Danny responded on tiktok and made a joke vid saying he did make all the songs and he included clips of himself singing a cover of Stupid with Love !!
The sort of befuddled way Renee says "I wanna give you some shoes 🙂" has stuck with me since the first time I watched this movie, it's such a weird delivery but the way she smiles after is so cute, this movie is an ENIGMA.
i dont mean to crap on the directors but i wish they wouldve used a director with a history of directing musicals, some of the blocking and cinematography made no sense
As a certified fan of the OG Mean Girls, watching the movie clips made me cringe so much 😭This movie really doesn't have the camp and charm of the original.
6:50 - Angourie Rice is a great actress, the few things I've seen her in I loved her performance, and yet when I saw her in the initial promotional stuff for Mean Girls, I squirmed because she just would not have been my first, or second...or third, pick for Katie or really anyone in a musical. She shines in subtle, understated roles and for a musical, ESPECIALLY one where she's going to be opposite a powerhouse like Reneé Rapp, you NEED someone who's going to be high energy with a big performance. Otherwise she's going to fade into the background and that's what happened. I would like to hope that it's not going to make a dent in her career and that people will understand it was just bad casting and not a reflection on her ability to perform in roles better suited for her acting style...but it's the internet, so I'm not holding my breath.
Yeah, there were some moments of more subtle acting from her in the movie that really stood out, and showed that given the right role she could really shine. Like in the scene where Gretchen tells her that Regina is cheating on Aaron, there's a great bit of physical acting from Angourie where her eyes kind of flash and her breathing quickens as she listens, but she's trying to hold it all back so Gretchen doesn't notice. That honestly gave me more charecterization for Cady than the whole rest of the movie.
Kids still say awful shit to each other today; this wasn’t reflected in the musical. They weren’t mean, they were lukewarm. OG Regina would’ve had them crying in 5 minutes. If anything, watching the musical made me want to watch the OG movie again. Really loved Janis and Damien in the musical though, they were great.
As someone who has the same phone as Cady in this movie, really did NOT need the commentary about how she will never get popular because of her phone LOL 😭😭💀
I haven’t seen the musical in awhile, but wasn’t the original falling down thing about Regina lowkey flashing the audience and someone taking a picture and spreading it? I feel like that’s a way better plot point and more relevant than just “she fell haha”. I mean, how do you feel when a horrible person has embarrassing pictures spread of them? It’s horrible, but they’re horrible, but they’re also a teenage girl who’s getting pictures spread of her and viciously mocked. Again, I can’t remember if that’s actually what the picture was, I haven’t seen the musical in years and it’s hard to search for it since everything is about the movie or vague about specific plot points. But either way I think we can agree the direction the movie went in was bad.
I watched OG mean girls with a group of people who were 6-10 years younger than me (I’m 28) and they were all so offended by it 😭 I was like, it’s satire?? And this is how high schoolers talked when I was in middle school, it’s a snapshot making fun of the sh!tty culture of the time.
No I’m a 47 yr old mom who watched it with her 16 yr old daughter and we both equally hated it just like all her friends did. Of course my daughter played Regina in mean girls musical and all her friends love the Broadway show so we probably all hated it for the same reason, they destroyed everything great about the Broadway show.
I remember being a guy in 2004, with a bunch of other guys in 2004, and as far as any of us knew at that point, we were all cis and straight and not at all who the flick was marketed toward, and we all happened to see it on tv or someone had a tv, or a gf showed it, none of us, like, pit any effort into trying to see it, but somehow we all did, and we were all like, this is really good? Like, it's really good. Was an interesting experience
i watched this movie in cinemas and was entertained for most of it (i was kinda pissed off by the end because of how dirty janis was done but that was also a problem with the musical). once i thought about it more i realised just how incompetent the movie was, but even being based on something as good as the original mean girls helps this movie a lot. one example of the movie’s incompetence that stood out to me was that it was hard to understand the lyrics to watch the world burn (which is a huge problem cause it’s a fucking MUSICAL). making all of the songs sound more like pop songs probably was a consequence of the movie being ashamed of being a musical, but that change ended up making the movie a failure both as a movie and a musical i also feel kinda bad for angourie rice. she’d probably be a good cady in a non musical remake of mean girls but never should have been cast for this remake.
as someone who lived in Illinois my whole life -- to be fair, 'you fall down once and its over' is pretty accurate. people wont let you live down f*ck all around here, cause we don't have enough going on in our lives to forget those things.
I said this to my friends before and I’ll say it here again, it feels like they watched the musical ONCE and just made that would be viewing into a movie One thing I like about the lion metaphor is that a grown lions predator is really only lions
You said correctly serveral times but it really hits the nail right on the head - 'its not that its bad, its just not a musical' This is my first video of yours but this was so funny and well written. This was a delight, carry on
Target demographic of this movie here to say I personally wished they just filmed the National Tour version of the stage show. It made edits the Broadway version needed and if Mean Girls had to have another reboot (though it really didn't). I'd rather that be shown in theatres than what we got here.
I don't think angourie rice is bad at acting I just think she shouldn't have been the lead because she wasn't given a good focus and was told to probably basically just be emotionless cuz that's what she sounds like in a lot of her scenes emotionless
Also if I was to revise mean girls musical I would make the narrator's Katie Damien and Janice and I basically try to match the thing from Mean Girls that worked and mesh the things in the musical that worked because that'll be that we create the perfect musical movie
I’d like to see a video on your opinion on Wonka. Or at least know your opinion on it- (I enjoy that film a lot, but maybe I’m a bit bias cuz I’m a timothee fangirl)
Not a fan of the original movie, not interested in watching a middling adaptation of an adaptation, but will always tune in to watch you talk about anything. And I would go out of my way to see you play Seymour in Little Shop. Thanks for posting just when I needed a lift!
If anyone hasn’t watched Reneé sing World Burn on here from 2019 go do it right now, she is INSANE!!!! She was such a powerhouse in this film and did the best with what she was given. Reneé, Auli and Jacquel carried this film on their backs for sure
I did just enjoy it because I went for Renee lmaooo I really liked the Halloween party was my favorite part. It was really good the dancers and shifting of the camera was so good
Wicked is definitely going to be better than Mean Girls the musical because they actually have actors who can sing and the lead role at least from the Snippets of songs that have been in the trailers sounds like she can sing and also Ariana Grande is famous so she's good singing I'm just wondering is she good at singing Broadway that's the question
this video made me realize i need more musical-movies based on stage musicals that were adaptations of movies - there's always smth so funny about them. Little Shop of Horrors certainly made some Choices and now Mean Girls is..... there This is my long way of making a case for Bring It On the Musical getting a movie adaptation - come onnnn it even has Lin Manuel Miranda's music (pre-Hamilton! i think??)
