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When To Watch: Thursday Previews — January 11, 2024 | Wide Release — January 12, 2024
Starring: Regina George, Angourie Rice, Christopher Briney, Avantika Vandanapu
Description: From the comedic mind of Tina Fey comes a new twist on the modern classic, MEAN GIRLS. New student Cady Heron (Angourie Rice) is welcomed into the top of the social food chain by the elite group of popular girls called “The Plastics,” ruled by the conniving queen bee Regina George (Reneé Rapp) and her minions Gretchen (Bebe Wood) and Karen (Avantika). However, when Cady makes the major misstep of falling for Regina’s ex-boyfriend Aaron Samuels (Christopher Briney), she finds herself prey in Regina’s crosshairs. As Cady sets to take down the group’s apex predator with the help of her outcast friends Janis (Auli’i Cravalho) and Damian (Jaquel Spivey), she must learn how to stay true to herself while navigating the most cutthroat jungle of all: high school. (Rotten Tomatoes)
Trailer
Critics’ Chatter
reneé rapp singing “world burn” got rousing applause in my screening of #meangirls (and her name in the credits at the end legit earned applause) i feel like that’s the perfect tease i can give ? pic.twitter.com/eitpBKjWVo
— Nora Dominick (@noradominick) January 5, 2024
The second we walked out of #MeanGirls my daughter turned to me and said, “Dad, you have no idea how much I loved that movie.”
She just started high school, kids are being miserable to each other, and she told me it felt like the film was made specifically for her at a time… pic.twitter.com/UIhjjUaF91
— Erik Davis (@ErikDavis) January 5, 2024
The new movie is *very* well cast across the board but I've got to highlight two names in particular — Reneé Rapp and Auli'i Cravalho took my breath away. True powerhouses right there who seem to effortlessly command the screen whenever they're on it.
What a great start to 2024… pic.twitter.com/bAoDuwFXpP
— Perri Nemiroff (@PNemiroff) January 5, 2024
Timeline Talk
im so tired of seeing people acting as if the new mean girls is a remake of the og mean girls. bro the movie is a MUSICAL based on the broadway musical pic.twitter.com/6AoD68IghZ
— megan (@rmjsnow) January 9, 2024
Unless the new Mean Girls movie explains why this 40 year old woman is calling a high schooler a little bitch, I don't want it pic.twitter.com/JWTg0ZDNSX
— Sean (@aced666) January 9, 2024
A “mean girls” remake that explores the UNFRIENDLY BLACK HOTTIES and the white girl drama is just background noise to their vicious world of cool, vicious competition, and class performance.
— rapture (@pharaohrapture) January 9, 2024
