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==Production==
==Production==

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Mean Girls
UK theatrical release poster
Directed by
  • Samantha Jayne
  • Arturo Perez Jr.
Screenplay byTina Fey
Based on
Produced by
Starring
CinematographyBill Kirstein
Edited byAndrew Marcus
Music byJeff Richmond
Production
companies
Distributed byParamount Pictures
Release dates
  • January 8, 2024 (2024-01-08) (New York City)
  • January 12, 2024 (2024-01-12) (United States)
Running time
112 minutes[2]
CountryUnited States
LanguageEnglish
Budget$36 million[3]

Mean Girls is a 2024 American musical teen comedy film directed by Samantha Jayne and Arturo Perez Jr. in their feature film directorial debut, from a screenplay by Tina Fey. It is based on the Broadway musical of the same name, which in turn was based on Mark Waters's 2004 comedy film, both written by Fey and based on Rosalind Wiseman's 2002 book Queen Bees and Wannabes. It features an ensemble cast that includes Angourie Rice, Reneé Rapp, Auliʻi Cravalho, Jaquel Spivey, Avantika, Bebe Wood, Christopher Briney, Jenna Fischer and Busy Philipps, while Fey and Tim Meadows reprise their roles from the original film.

Paramount Pictures announced the film's development in January 2020, with Fey returning to write the screenplay and serve as a producer alongside Lorne Michaels, who produced the 2004 film. Composer Jeff Richmond and lyricist Nell Benjamin returned to rework their songs from the stage musical, while Richmond also composed the film's score. Casting began in December 2022. Principal photography took place in New Jersey between March and April 2023. The film was originally set to premiere on the streaming service Paramount+, but in September 2023, the distributor opted to release the film theatrically first.

Mean Girls premiered in New York City on January 8, 2024. It was released by Paramount Pictures on January 12, 2024.

Cast

Additionally, Lindsay Lohan makes a cameo appearance as a moderator of the academic competition.[5]

Production

Development

Screenwriter/producer Tina Fey (left), producer Lorne Michaels and composer Jeff Richmond all reunited to adapt the stage musical for the screen.

In 2013, Tina Fey announced that a stage musical adaptation of Mean Girls was in the works. The musical premiered in 2017 in Washington, D.C., and later transferred to Broadway at the August Wilson Theatre in 2018.[6] Fey wrote the book of the show, while her husband, Jeff Richmond, composed the music with lyrics written by Nell Benjamin. The show received positive reviews from critics, and was nominated for twelve awards at the 72nd Tony Awards, including Best Musical.[7]

In January 2020, Fey stated that a film adaptation of the stage musical was in active development.[8] In September 2021, Arturo Perez Jr. and Samantha Jayne signed on to direct, making the film their feature film directorial debuts.[9] It was also confirmed that Lorne Michaels, who produced the original film, will return to produce the musical film under Broadway Video, alongside Fey's Little Stranger.[10]

Casting

Reneé Rapp, who had previously portrayed Regina George in Mean Girls on Broadway, reprised her role for the film.

During the original film's cast reunion on October 3, 2020, Tina Fey shared that fans could be involved in casting actors for the film by sharing their dream cast on the project's website and be featured in the musical film's "burn book".[11] In May 2021, she suggested to Variety that the original cast members of the stage musical would likely not reprise their roles.[12]

In December 2022, Angourie Rice, Auliʻi Cravalho, and Jaquel Spivey were cast in the roles of Cady, Janis, and Damian, while Reneé Rapp, who previously portrayed Regina as a replacement for Taylor Louderman in the stage musical from 2019 until its closure in 2020, would reprise her role.[10][13][14]

In February 2023, it was announced that the roles of Aaron, Gretchen, and Karen would be played by Christopher Briney, Bebe Wood, and Avantika Vandanapu, respectively.[15] Fey and Tim Meadows were added to the cast to reprise their roles from the original film, Ms. Norbury and Principal Duvall[16] Jenna Fischer joined the cast as Ms. Heron, Cady's mom, while Busy Philipps was announced to portrays Mrs. George, Regina's mother.[17][18] Additionally, it was reported that Ashley Park, who originated the role of Gretchen in the stage musical, will have a cameo in the film.[19]

In March 2023, Mahi Alam, Connor Ratliff, and Jon Hamm joined as Kevin, Mr. Rapp, and Coach Carr, respectively.[20][21] In December 2023, Rachel McAdams revealed to Variety that she and Fey discussed the possibility of a cameo in the film, but it ultimately didn't work out.[22]

Filming

Principal photography took place in Middletown Township, New Jersey from March to April 2023.[23][24][25]

Differences between stage and film versions

To make the story's musical form translate to the screen, changes were made to shorten the runtime compared to the stage show's two and a half hour length and to improve on certain plot elements, such as shortening the length of some of the musical numbers. Like the stage show, this film takes place during the social media age, with the incorporation of social media and mobile technology into the plot, compared to the 2000s setting of the 2004 film.[26]

Fourteen songs were cut for the film, including "Where Do You Belong?", "Fearless", "Stop", "Whose House Is This?", "More Is Better", and "Do This Thing", along with the reprise of "What's Wrong With Me?". A new song, "What Ifs", was written to replace "It Roars", the introductory song for Cady in the stage version.[27][28]

Music

Main article: Mean Girls (2024 soundtrack)

Jeff Richmond and Nell Benjamin returned to rework their songs from the stage musical for the adaptation, while Richmond also composed the film's score.[29] Alongside Richmond and Benjamin, Reneé Rapp co-wrote "What Ifs", a new song for Cady,[30] replacing "It Roars" from the stage production. Other songs removed from the original score include "Where Do You Belong?", "Fearless", "Stop", "Whose House Is This?", "More Is Better", and "Do This Thing".[31]

The film's soundtrack was released on January 12, 2024, by Interscope Records.[31] The album features twelve musical numbers from the film, and the track "Not My Fault" by Rapp and Megan Thee Stallion, released on December 15, 2023 as a single.[32]

Musical numbers

  • "A Cautionary Tale" – Janis and Damian
  • "What Ifs" – Cady
  • "Meet the Plastics" – Regina
  • "Stupid with Love" – Cady and Ensemble
  • "Apex Predator" – Janis and Damian
  • "What's Wrong with Me?" – Gretchen
  • "Sexy" – Karen and Female Ensemble
  • "Someone Gets Hurt" – Regina
  • "Revenge Party" – Janis, Damian, Cady, Principal Duvall and Ensemble
  • "ICarly Theme"† – Damian
  • "Kevin G's Rap"† – Kevin
  • "Rockin' Around the Pole"† – Cady, Regina, Gretchen and Karen
  • "Someone Gets Hurt (Reprise)"† – Janis, Cady and Damian
  • "World Burn" – Regina and Female Ensemble
  • "I'd Rather Be Me" – Janis and Female Ensemble
  • "Stupid with Love (Reprise)"† – Cady, Prom Band and Company
  • "I See Stars" – Cady and Company

† denotes songs absent from the soundtrack.

Release

The film was originally set for a streaming-only release on Paramount+ but was switched to a theatrical release in September 2023.[33]

Mean Girls held its world premiere in New York City on January 8, 2024.[34] It was released by Paramount Pictures theatrically on January 12, 2024.[35]

Reception

Box office

In the United States and Canada, Mean Girls was released alongside The Beekeeper and The Book of Clarence, and is projected to gross $27–30 million from 3,800 theaters in its opening weekend.[3]

Critical response

On the review aggregator website Rotten Tomatoes, 71% of 93 critics' reviews are positive, with an average rating of 6.5/10. The website's consensus reads: "Preserving the essence of the original while adding a few new wrinkles—not to mention musical numbers—Mean Girls is a sweet (if slight) update with an outstanding cast."[36] Metacritic, which uses a weighted average, assigned the film a score of 59 out of 100, based on 28 critics, indicating "mixed or average" reviews.[37]

Maureen Lee Lenker of Entertainment Weekly wrote "Not since Rob Marshall and Chicago has a feature film debut shown such a confident, innate understanding of the musical genre and how to make it cinematic for a modern audience".[38] Kate Erbland of IndieWire wrote "Jayne and Perez's Mean Girls treads a fine line with relative ease: give something to older fans, and earn some new ones in the process".[39] Owen Gleiberman of Variety wrote "The songs carry you through, with the cross-cutting fireworks of "Revenge Party" being a particular highlight. And the story still crackles..."[40] Carla Meyer of San Francisco Chronicle wrote "The songs are mid and some story elements aged like Juicy Couture, but the acting and singing are totally fetch in the new movie musical version of Mean Girls".[41] Michael Phillips of The Chicago Tribune wrote "The core of Fey's storyline hasn't changed, even if technology has. It embraces, with trace elements of sincerity, the juicy comic extremes of mean-girldom, complete with an 11th-hour repudiation and a reminder to be nicer. Before it's too late".[42] Michael O'Sullivan of The Washington Post wrote "There's lots of fun to be had, in a show that rhymes nonplussed with calcu-lust. And yet, like its predecessors, this Mean Girls has bite".[43] BJ Colangelo of /Film wrote "Mean Girls is an entirely different animal compared to the apex predator of the original film, but it holds its own in the constantly evolving biosphere of teen cinema".[44] Kevin Harley of Total Film wrote "[An] enjoyable but safe musical redo...it's the old Mean Girls with smartphones, essentially, with an attendant risk of redundancy".[45]

David Rooney of The Hollywood Reporter wrote "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".[46] Valerie Complex of Deadline Hollywood wrote, "the film struggles to justify its existence beyond surface-level changes and ultimately falters in delivering a coherent, impactful story that offers little new or compelling".[47] David Fear of Rolling Stone wrote "No one's expecting the second coming of MGM's Freed Unit here, but dear god, transforming Mean Girls: The Musical into a hot mess was definitely not on our wish list".[48] Kristen Lopez of TheWrap wrote "It's a sanitized, CliffsNotes 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".[49] Tom Gliatto of People wrote "The musical numbers are mostly bright, brash and frequently awful. The songs just keep coming at you, noisily whirring with speed and determined to make maximum impact".[50]

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