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Mean Girls review: Tina Fey's exuberant musical is tremendous fun, writes BRIAN VINER
BRIAN VINER: Two whole decades have now passed since the original Mean Girls came out; plenty of those girls in their early teens who dragged their mothers to see it are now parents themselves.
Australian actress Angourie Rice is perfectly cast as Cady Heron, who, having been home-schooled in Kenya by her earnest zoologist mother (Jenna Fischer), is plunged into the bitch-eat-bitch world of North Shore High, where busty, glossy-lipped Regina George (the excellent Reneé Rapp, who played the role on Broadway) rules the roost. It's a perfectly timed, very funny subversion of the old 'beauty from within' platitude in a film that doesn't hold too many surprises for fans of the original, nor in truth has been universally welcomed, but for me was full of January cheer. Comer's unnamed character has a partner (Joel Fry) and there are small roles for the film's co-producer Benedict Cumberbatch, as well as Gina McKee, Mark Strong and Katherine Waterston.
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