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The rebooted Mean Girls is just a nerdy imitation of greatness: FLORA GILL enjoyed herself, but Tina Fey's remake is ultimately a carbon copy that smacks of boredom-inducing laziness
For my generation, Mean Girls was iconic. Brilliantly skewering the cliques of a US high school, the 2004 original followed the efforts of new girl Cady Heron as she tried to fit in.
We were too young when hits like Clueless and Pretty in Pink were released, and the characters in contemporary films like Legally Blonde were all in college – past the age when school gossip can make or break you. Generally speaking I’m a huge fan, yet I’ve learnt they can make a much-loved story far better (as with Les Miserables) or far worse (I will never get back those two hours I spent watching Lord of the Rings: The Musical). There is a world where they could have turned the film’s ‘Burn Book’ (a bitchy scrapbook of photos and snide comments about the titular Mean Girls’ schoolmates) into a Twitter account and had them all voting for who had the most ‘rizz’ (that’s ‘charisma’ to the over-40s) at the end-of-year dance.
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