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‘Mean Girls’ Review: 20 Years Later, a Lively Musical Remake Still Has Something to Say
An adaptation of the 2018 Broadway musical proves that mean-girl culture is still worth skewering.
That’s the sensation I’ve had at movies-turned-Broadway-musicals like “Hairspray,” “School of Rock” (built around Andrew Lloyd Webber’s greatest score in decades), and even “Back to the Future” (a musical I was recently dragged to kicking and screaming, and I wound up loving it). The clothes worn by Regina and her clique — the babbly insecure Gretchen (Bebe Wood), the dim bulb Karen (Avantika), who practically glows in her idiotic innocence — have a busy postmodern trash chic that makes the miniskirt-and-high-heels look of the original trio look like something from a lost century. “Mean Girls” was directed by Samantha Jayne and Arturo Perez Jr. (it’s their first feature), and working with the cinematographer Bill Kirstein, they’ve staged the film in a gliding, almost frictionless style that often creates the illusion of one long shot doubling back on itself.
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