#Arturo Perez Jr

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RENEÉ RAPP as REGINA GEORGE

MEAN GIRLS (2024) — directed by Arturo Perez Jr., Samantha Jayne

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Title: Mean Girls

Rating: PG-13

Director: Samantha Jayne, Arturo Perez Jr

Cast: Angourie Rice, Reneé Rapp, Auli'i Cravalho, Jaquel Spivey, Avantika, Bebe Wood, Christopher Briney, Jenna Fischer, Busy Philipps, Tina Fey, Tim Meadows, Lindsay Lohan, Jon Hamm, Ashley Park, Connor Ratliff, Mahi Alam, John El-Jor, Brian Altemus

Release year: 2024

Genres: comedy, romance

Blurb: New student Cady Heron is welcomed into the top of the social food chain by The Plastics, the elite group of popular girls ruled by the conniving queen bee Regina George and her minions, Gretchen and Karen. However, when Cady makes the major misstep of falling for Regina's ex-boyfriend Aaron Samuels, she finds herself prey in Regina's crosshairs. As Cady sets out to take down the group's apex predator with the help of her outcast friends Janis and Damian, she must learn how to stay true to herself while navigating the most cutthroat jungle of all: high school.

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#109: Mean Girls (2024, dir. by Samantha Jayne and Arturo Perez Jr.)

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Mean Girls

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Mean Girls (2024) film review

Director(s):

Samantha Jayne and Arturo Perez Jr.

Main cast:

Angourie Rice, Renee Rapp, Auli’i Cravhalo, Jacquel Spivey, Avantika, Bebe Wood, Christopher Briney, Jenna Fischer, Busy Philipps, Tina Fey, Tim Meadows and Jon Hamm.

Runtime: 112 minutes.

Does it pass the Bechdel test? Yes

Basic Plot:

A home-schooled girl moves to an American high school where she encounters the various social classes. The 2024 film Mean Girls is a musical inspired by the 2002 book “Queen Bees and Wannabes” by Rosalind Wiseman.

Overall Thoughts:

The 2024 reboot of Mean Girls is very enjoyable. This reboot adopts all the best parts of the 2004 film while discarding certain problematic jokes. The acting, singing and storyline of this film are excellent. Furthermore, the 2024 version of Mean Girls has more ethnic and sexual diversity than the original film.

Overall rating: 4.3 out of 5 stars.

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Mean Girls (2024) Cast Featurette

The cast and crew of 2024's Mean Girls talk about the characters and other actors.

New student Cady Heron is welcomed into the popular girls group "The Plastics," ruled by Regina George. Then, Cady falls for Regina's ex-boyfriend Aaron, putting herself squarely in Regina's crosshairs. Cady then sets out to take down Regina with the help of her new outcast friends, all while trying to stay true to herself and navigate high school.

Mean Girls, based on the 2004 film and the 2018 Broadway musical, stars Angourie Rice (Cady Heron), Reneé Rapp (Regina George), Auli'i Cravalho (Janis Imi'ike), Jaquel Spivey (Damian Hubbard), Bebe Wood (Gretchen Wieners), Avantika (Karen Shetty), Christopher Briney (Aaron Samuels), and Tina Fey (Ms. Norbury). The film is directed by Samantha Jayne and Arturo Perez Jr. from a screenplay by Tina Fey. Lyrics are by Nell Benjamin and music is by Jeff Richmond.

Mean Girls (2024) hits theaters on January 12, 2024.

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Mean Girls (2024) Review

Cady Heron is the new girl who had been living in Kenya and home schooled by her mother. Entering high school with the hierarchy was never going to be easy, especially when she enters the Plastics clique and is about to come into battle with Regina George. ⭐️⭐️ This film version is based on the Broadway musical adaptation of the original film. Continue reading Mean Girls (2024) Review

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Stuff I'm Looking Forward to in January

Say hello to 2024! In addition to New Year's Day (Jan. 1) and Martin Luther King Jr. Day (Jan. 15) here is what on my radar this month:

Movies:

Mean Girls

The 2004 comedy Mean Girls has taken on a life of its own and in the 20 years since it has become a part of the lexicon ("Fetch is not happening"). Now there is going to be a remake of the Broadway musical adaptation. What makes me interested is that original writer Tina Fey has written / produced this one too. Opens 1/12.

Music:

Sleater-Kinney Little Rope

The always reliable Sleater-Kinney are back with their 11th album. The band's 2019 album The Center Won’t Hold was a polarizing album that was so polarizing drummer Janet Weiss left before its release, but I actually really dug it and I even named “The Future is Here” my #1 Song of 2019. Their first post-Janet Weiss album was Path of Wellness, which I named my #6 Album of 2021. Their newest album drops 1/19! (review to come)

Green Day Saviors

The 14th album from Green Day is being released weeks away from the 30th anniversary of Dookie. It is their first album since 2020's Father of All... and the songs I've heard so far are pretty good. Album drops 1/19.

The Smile Wall of Eyes

The last album by the side project of Radiohead's Thom Yorke and Jonny Greenwood and Sons of Kemet's Tom Skinner was A Light for Attracting Attention, an album so good I named it my #1 Album of 2022! The title song off their new album was recently released with a music video from Paul Thomas Anderson that was outstanding. New album drops 1/26!

Awards Season:

Awards season for the Best of 2023 is now in full swing and this month we have the Golden Globes (Jan. 7) and Emmy Awards (Jan. 15).

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Mean Girls (2024)

This is a Movie Health Community evaluation. It is intended to inform people of potential health hazards in movies and does not reflect the quality of the film itself. The information presented here has not been reviewed by any medical professionals.

Mean Girls has two musical numbers where the second half of the songs are covered in intense strobe lights, with the movie being unsafe to watch until those songs are over. The first song is called Someone Gets Hurt, and uses that phrase multiple times before the strobe effects start. The second one is called World Burn, and frequently uses the phrase "watch the world burn" before its extreme strobe effects start. A few scenes have singular camera flashes, which are very bright. On two occasions, we see rapidly-changing images from vertically-shot cell phone video clips, which change fast enough to create strobe effects.

There are a few brief uses of handheld and shaking cameras. During multiple songs, there are several uses of orbiting shots at high speeds, which may be disorienting.

Flashing Lights: 10/10. Motion Sickness: 7/10.

TRIGGER WARNING: There is a lot of schoolyard bullying in this film.

Video ID: Admin Brandon's review of Mean Girls (2024)

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Mean Girls dir. Samantha Jayne & Arturo Perez Jr. (2024)

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Mean Girls

directed by Samantha Jayne and Arturo Perez Jr., 2024

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MEAN GIRLS (2024):

Tik Tok era film

The battle of the plastics

Set to rock music

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Mean Girls (12A): Noisy Remake Strikes of Trying Too Hard to be Fetch.

#OneMannsMovies #filmreview of "Mean Girls" (2024). #MeanGirls. Uneven and frenetic remake that doesn't bear comparison with the classic original. 3/5.

A One Mann’s Movies Film Review of “Mean Girls” (2024). Mark Water’s “Mean Girls” is 20 years old and was a classic of its time. That starred Lindsay Lohan and Rachel McAdams in the roles of Cady Heron and Regina George. It became a firm teen favourite that a generation (my daughters included) fondly look back on. Despite all its frantic efforts to please, I really can’t see this Mean Girls…

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34. Mean Girls (Samantha Jayne & Arturo Perez Jr., 2024)

The dinner theatre version of this I watched at the Rockwell back in 2017 was genuinely better than this. Hell, I’d venture to say that a good 50% of high school theater departments that stage this pull it off better than this. Where’s the edge?? Aren’t these girls supposed to be mean? Aren’t I supposed to be laughing? Rating: 4.2/10

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Just. Generally speaking. I think maybe people who don’t respect stage musicals should stop making movie musicals. Just a thought

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Für Mean Girls bin ich ja nur insofern die Zielgruppe, als es ein Musical ist, weshalb ich jetzt auch nichts über die früheren Inkarnationen Film und Bühnenmusical sagen kann. Ganz lässt sich der Gedanke, sie hätten lieber das Heathers-Musical verfilmen sollen (darüber könnte ich mehr sagen) nicht vermeiden, aber es ist natürlich total grool.