A new movie adaptation of the Broadway smash musical version of the original 2004 hit movie, which in turn was adapted from Rosalind Wiseman‘s 2002 book Queen Bees and Wannabes, 2024’s Mean Girls is a redux with pizzaz. Updating the impressively not-dated Lindsay Lohan/Rachel McAdams early-aughts teen comedy classic to the modern era while adding in a number of catchy tunes, the musical from co-directors Samantha Jayne and Arturo Perez Jr. is an accomplishment in IP recycling that doesn’t feel, well, recycled. In fact, the whole thing is pretty fetch. Read More