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All the effervescence and fun have been drained out of the material in this labored reincarnation, a movie musical made by people who appear to have zero understanding of movie-musical vernacular.

It's a sanitized, Cliff's Notes version of the original with a few songs thrown in. It'll be great for audiences to see Renee Rapp, if they don't know of her already, but she's not in it enough to help save the rest of the film. This may not be your mother's Mean Girls but it's doubtful it'll be anyone's.

You can rest assured that Mean Girls, the movie musical, sticks close to the spirit and to the letter of the movie that updated and mythologized the culture of gossip and backstabbing for a new generation. The new movie nudges the material into our own era in a handful of ways.

As it did in 2004, Mean Girls is a playground for a melange of fresh, new talent for whom we hope the limit does not exist. Did we really need another film version? No. But it's pretty grool that the one we got is such fun.

On pourrait comparer cette nouvelle version de Mean Girls à des retrouvailles scolaires. Certes, les élèves ont rajeuni plutôt que vieilli, mais on y retrouve cette familiarité réconfortante qui nous fait à la fois réaliser que le temps passe et qu'on peut le rattraper en un instant.

Adaptation sous forme de comédie musicale d'un film-culte de 2004. Répliques cinglantes. Réalisation vivante. Chorégraphies colorées. A. Rice correcte, éclipsée par R. Rapp et A. Cravalho.