It's a reboot. It's a musical. Is it plastic fantastic? Maybe.
It's 2024 and a new generation of it-girl plastics are ruling the roost. Except in the age of socials, rather than dominating the halls, it appears the queens of the moment have to satisfy themselves with being legends on their own screens. The musical aspects are a fun new (ish) direction, but it seems the recycling process takes the edge off our rehashed polymer pretties. Are gen zalpha soft? Have our PC sensibilities made our hard drives go floppy? Or has Tina Fey just lost the nerve to sharpen her claws in her sixth decade? Probably a bit of all the above. We live in different times, and this iteration of the plastic fantastic go heavy on the back-references and plays on in jokes, pulling their punches in preference of froth and uplift.
The film is fun, and watchable to the end, but it is a different beast. This is most certainly not your mother's Mean Girls. And it clearly never intended to be. It's softer it's cuddlier. It's cuter. The monster teeth are definitely fake, and they're discarded almost as quickly as the book of burn.
It's 2024 and a new generation of it-girl plastics are ruling the roost. Except in the age of socials, rather than dominating the halls, it appears the queens of the moment have to satisfy themselves with being legends on their own screens. The musical aspects are a fun new (ish) direction, but it seems the recycling process takes the edge off our rehashed polymer pretties. Are gen zalpha soft? Have our PC sensibilities made our hard drives go floppy? Or has Tina Fey just lost the nerve to sharpen her claws in her sixth decade? Probably a bit of all the above. We live in different times, and this iteration of the plastic fantastic go heavy on the back-references and plays on in jokes, pulling their punches in preference of froth and uplift.
The film is fun, and watchable to the end, but it is a different beast. This is most certainly not your mother's Mean Girls. And it clearly never intended to be. It's softer it's cuddlier. It's cuter. The monster teeth are definitely fake, and they're discarded almost as quickly as the book of burn.