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Mean Girls remake exec reveals they deliberately downplayed that is was a musical - as shocked cinemagoers admit they walked out after realising

Paramount have revealed they downplayed that the Mean Girls remake is a musical after several cinemagoers confessed they had no clue until they saw the film.

'Second, the new cast are uniformly excellent, from the three energetically hilarious new Plastics, Rapp, Vandanapu and Bebe Wood, to Moana's Auli'i Cravalho and Jacquel Spivey as the contented outcasts who initially take in Rice's Cady, before coaching her to infiltrate the school's ultimate in-group. While Empire said: 'Sharp, funny and strongest when it stands on its own two perfectly manicured feet, this snappy musical successfully updates the original Mean Girls template for a fresh audience. 'Second, the new cast are uniformly excellent, from the three energetically hilarious new Plastics, Rapp, Vandanapu and Bebe Wood, to Moana's Auli'i Cravalho and Jacquel Spivey as the contented outcasts who initially take in Rice's Cady, before coaching her to infiltrate the school's ultimate in-group.

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