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My biggest problem with the movie is that they made Cady so boring and without a personality. Like girly be an actual person.
The way she opened her eyes so big all the the time, l cnt ....
And in the musical, they already changed it so she DID have a personality! And then they took it away again!
@@cindy8966I love Erika’s “filled with calculust”
and like her voiceeeee. she can sing but like, WHERES THE EMOTION. this is common musical theatre knowledge.
@@PelafinaLievre yesss and also (im a choir major trust me Ik what I’m talking about) angourie’s singing had NO personality. It was on key, but there was ZERO dynamic or personality anywhere in that voice
As nitpicky as it may sound, the fashion was one of my biggest issues with this film. The original mean girls film had so much thought and attention to detail put into each outfit and how they subtly reflected each character’s personalities. In the new mean girls it seems like they just recycled wardrobes from 2012 Disney Channel shows.
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I agree! I love ModernGurlz’s video about all the fashion, it made me appreciate it way more
@@p-__congrats we don’t care.
What heavily agitated me was the "moral" of this whole thing. The OG wasnt shy about saying that girls were mean. They can be cruel, catty, and calculating and have the ability to destroy you. The remake is just "Oh girls are amazing! They never do anything wrong on purpose! Its because of men pitting us against eachother!" When thats not even it!
Omg what did the guys even do in this plot like that??
did they do that?
@@mirmir0003 They did do that in the song about how boys can do whatever they want and how they pit women against eachother
@@Liltwilightprincess2 i always read that as guys being allowed to be physically aggressive towards eachother when girls have to resort to psychological warfare
Literally! Boys weren't even a major plot point of the first one, it was centered almost exclusively around girls being mean of their own free will! Girls can be mean! Not everything we do has to do with boys!!!
This movie is basically there to make you go: 'Huh, I should watch the original Mean Girls movie again, it's been a while.'
Love how Africa is ‘represented’ as a bare land where you have to live in a tent 😭
I think it’s since she’s a zoologist or whatever so she doesn’t live in like Cape Town, Kinshasa or like Lagos or something
@@Oqweishayeah shes literally homeschooled so i dont think she would have lived in an actual city
@@clementine127 that too
@@Oqweisha then they should say EXACTLY where (country + city or village)she is. Because we're tired of that lazy depiction of Africa.
This is just disrespectful 😪😮💨
@@celineekindi7030 my mate is Tanzanian and even he doesn't know all the countries of Africa 😅
I'm convinced they did this movie only to have an official version of renee Rapp singing the songs
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Then why change arrangement of these songs? World burn sounds much better in the 2019 version...
@@olakeska7908Because they were afraid of being too musicalish. They wanted to attract the theater lovers who only like Hamilton. Also their Cady choice has a weak voice, to put it nicely.
In this movie Regina is like the book description of a bully but OG Regina was a real life bully, I've met to many Regina's in my time
Exactly
How was Regina a bully?
Everybody said they love her but then Tina Fey said that she victimized the entire school including the faculty?
That's how real people are try to to be nice yet..
And Regina is a good manipulator she pretend to be nice while borderline bullying people and they can't do anything coz of her power..
Sorry for my bad English .. @@equusquaggaquagga536
@@saptaparnabhattacharya5908
You did not hear me
What did Regina do? How does she bully people? A lot of the stuff she is accused happens offscreen and is never confirmed
@@equusquaggaquagga536……did.. did you not watch the goddamn movie? Or have you never been bullied in your life? Both?
Okay here’s a hot take- Renee did not play Regina well. Idk if it's the problem with the writing or what but she literally displayed zero emotions and the lines were delivered so flat. Plus the OG Regina is mean in a sneaky way while being nice to your face. Which makes sense why she’s popular. It’s realistic. Why would anyone wanna be friends with Renee’s Regina, who is just outright mean to everyone?
I think she did Broadway Regina well and can totally sing but the writing this movie did not do her any favors in terms of her characters complexity. Also I hate the excessive autotune gurl can sing why won't the movie let her
Exactly! That was the first thing about Renee's version that I noticed. Everything she says is just outright offputting and venomous in a way that you couldn't just put up with or ignore. She says everything with a tone that is just ridiculously over the top yet a delivery that also somehow feels flat. It's genuinely weird. Renee also ruined the "it's not going to happen..." line because she didn't say it in a sneakily mean way that allows her to shut Gwen up while also remaining "friendly", recommending that her efforts might be better spent elsewhere. She says it like she hopes Gwen will die or will be stricken ill after she finishes her sentence. Regina's character and Renee's portrayal make no sense nor does the reason why this movie was made and changed so dramatically. Disappointed and annoyed.
Exactly! How is everyone saying that Rapp “carried” the movie when her acting was just as bad as everyone else’s? People are praising her for her performance because she’s attractive and can sing, but the cast has literally said that she lost her script and just “did her own thing” for the movie, since she already knew the lines from the original. If that’s true, then it’s *very* believable, since she acts without any direction and looks like she’s doing improv while everyone else is robotically sticking to the script. Everyone’s performance was awful, but Rice and Rapp as the main characters especially stuck out. At least Reneé could actually sing though, unlike Angourie
I think it applies to being far away acting different than up close. She probably sold it on stage, but in film it’s not there.
Yeah that’s exactly what I thought after watching it
They keep making remakes instead of new fresh good movies
You can say that again. The same can be said about the music that's released. If you can even call it music.
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they don't pay or respect writers enough for them to bother
So true
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"We have mean girls at home" completely summed this movie up
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@@p-__how did you know? HOW DID YOU KNOW?
I went to the school where this was filmed on my CZcams channel
"she doesn't even go here!" In the original, it was yelled from the back of the room/shot, but in the remake it's right on center, that's why it looks so "look we did it" and unorganic...I did chuckle at the "she sings well...but she doesn't go here y'all", better delivery. :D
Yeah, in this one it's so... in your face you know.
Also I always thought the original is supposed to be Drew Barrymores character from Never been kissed (an undercover reporter)
@@MyPineappleDream I didn't even think of that and thinking of these being in the same universe makes it even funnier.
Remember kids, when there's a remake of a movie, always have your expectations low.
Not always.
That goes for any movie ever tbh, not just remakes
@@TApexGenshin true lol
THIS ISN'T A REMAKE.
@@thefoxcritic1
Yes it is
"That's not mean girls that's mad women"
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@@MbitaChiziget on your knees
It sounds like all the actors are reading a script. The movie has no “soul”
i do genuinely think janice and damian are the only believable characters in the whole film. and i guess kevin g too but other than that they all seem like caricatures of real teenagers. in real life regina would probably be more sneaky and probablematic, cady would probably be a lot more complex of a person, karen would be a lot less stupid and gretchen would be a lot less outwardly insecure around the plastics minus maybe karen
its hard to make it ur own too when so much of the lines were owned and delivered by the OG movies characters :/
@@aeblink1332frrr
"This is not your mother's mean girls." And suddenly, I wish it was.
I saw this in the theater and I felt SCAMMED. When they said they were adding the Broadway songs, I thought they would be in a BROADWAY STYLE. But they changed the whole damn thing! They took out all the good songs and changed a ton of lyrics.
EXACTLY that made me pissed. The only rlly good part was Janice and Damien. only characters that yk, sold there characters like every character was supposed to..
THANK YOU
@@emmajeanne1900 NO PROBLEM. But seriously, the cut down Grechen and Karen into extras pretty much. Like, cutting out were do you belong was the worst decision ever, but then they cut half of meet the plastics and STILL call it meet the plastics when its more "meet regina" if anything, they cut out grechens whole shpeil and karens verse as well and that pissed me off. OML THE FACT THAT THEY REPLACED IT ROARS FOR SOME STUPID POP SONG MADE ME WANT A GUN TO MY HEAD
Idk why, I thought it wasnt a musical and I thought it was the OG cast's Kids with OG Cady as the school counsellor.
@@KISEMA02 hm
Also the fashion was really bad like they were literally wearing clothes from SHEIN as if the og mean girls would ever wear that
LITERALLY
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I'm not American but doesn't that reflect what kids today actually wear ?
Actually they would 😂
I think what I hate most about this movie is how much they changed Regina’s character. In the original she talks behind ppls backs. This Regina is just mean to ppl to their face which just isn’t realistic for high school girls in this generation. The old Regina is just a much more realistic of a popular, high school it girl and holds up way better in this generation than the new one. Also- ik Karen is supposed to be dumb but in the original they made her more dumb in a smart way if that makes sense. In this one she is literally nothing why tf would she be popular when she acts like that?
Oh my God I love that comment LOL
That’s what I was thinking! Karen in the original movie is dumb but she’s not a useless character.
Thank you for saying that about Karen! In the original she’s dumb, but it honestly feels more realistic, I can see someone thinking it’s ESPN instead of ESP or asking “why are you white?” Then in this movie it’s cartoonish, and honestly almost childish. Even wardrobe wise, she wears freaking butterfly socks, that’s just so juvenile and a little weird for the character that’s supposed to be “slutty”
I mean Karen is dumber in the musical, that's mainly the problem with comparing the movie to the og movie when it's an adaptation of the MUSICAL. In the musical Karen literally thought she cured sex cancer when Gretchen told her sex cancer doesn't exist lmao
definitely a thing with the times. i was in high school in the late 2010’s and the popular people were definitely mean to peoples faces under the guise of being “funny”
The thing that made Regina work in the original was how nice she could seem at times. She wasn't always obviously "evil" and there were hints she wasn't entirely a bad person at heart. By the end she's actually changed for the better. You liked her even if you didn't want to admit it, so it was clear why she got to the position of power she did in the school. This one just makes her too much of a one-dimensional villain who's about as subtle in her behavior as Snidely Whiplash.
It should also be said that when Regina was mean in the original... She at least did it in a way that was often charming. She got into that mean part of your brain where you unconsciously could side with her.
Yeah, it was more like I hate her....till she says something nice about me
I don’t know why but that part where Cady’s mom is talking to her then Cady just runs away singing makes me laugh so hard😭
the thing that annoys me is in the Original Karen was dumb but also acted like a normal fucking human..... In the remake her character Acts like she should be on Medication
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Yeah she’s like a caricature of a caricature, it’s just too ridiculous to make her even dumber than she already was lol
I think the actress did a really good job with what she was given, but yeah, if I think about it, it did feel like a cartoonish mockery more than a realistic depiction of a human.
I honestly thought that Karen was the best in this movie! Loved her silly Halloween song and her the scene of her wearing makeup.
I wish they would’ve given her more attention I thought she was great.
Maybe as a girlie with ADHD and Bipolar disorder, you might be right in one way
@@OwlBard Yeah I don't blame the Actress, she totally killed the 'Dumb' Role. I 100% Blame the writer
My biggest complaint about this movie is that it took itself way too seriously. There were multiple points in the movie where it was an exact copy of the original, but with all of the original comedy somehow sucked out😭
if they went ultra camp and really embraced the musical it would’ve been SO MUCH better
Yeah but instead they think of how to make it dramatic and intense (via the fetch scene)
"exact copy": I was predicting lines before they were being said
Preach, the original worked because it didn't take itself too seriously, and all of the characters, while slightly exaggerated, felt authentic.
@@koiloyloyeah I liked the meta moment where one of them was like ‘I’m sorry for saying you weren’t good in that song from earlier, there was a lot of pressure” I wish they did more jokes like that
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I think they may have blackmailed Tina Fey or something to return for her ICONIC role cause ain't no way she saw this script and went "Ah, the perfect homage to the original"💀
Why make new remakes, sequels, reboots, etc, if they're never going to be better than the original? Especially if you've made a sequel, remake, reboot, etc, in the past that completely flopped!
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@@MbitaChizi I'm sorry, but what does that have to do with the comment you’re replying to?
hahaha god one@@p-__
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10:48 "Cady's trying to peg Regina"
Truly an iconic line
lol
Well, Regina in the 'you think you're really pretty?' scene looks like she's flirting with Cady more than trying to catch her off guard LOL
I am pretty sure that was an intentional choice by Renee Rapp to signify Regina being pansexual. @@lucindaleal8020
👀
I DIED laughing at that part XD
what the hell does Hollywood have against families?? Why did they need to make Cady's mom a single parent???
By changing Janis and Karen's ethnicities, I feel like this remake basically threw away the original points and jokes about theses characters. Karen is supposed to be a dumb blonde stereotype and they threw away the lesbian/Lebanese punchline with Janis. Plus I don't really like how they made this Karen so cartoonishly stupid. I know the Broadway show exaggerated her stupidity as well, but even that version still had her "smart" moments and humility. For example, the musical number "Stop" reveals how she became a victim of sexting and questions why boys aren't taught not to pressure girls like that or understand the dangers of doing that to minors. Here, they just turn Karen into a walking vegetable rather than an airhead who's still a human being anymore.
I will never understand why movies show people eating food in a public bathroom. That is by far the most unrealistic and disgusting thing
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Honestly, it happened all the time in my high school.
I eat in the bathroom?
I liked your comment until I remembered that I did, in fact, eat in a public bathroom.
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Maybe that was just me, but I thought the plastics in the original were mean to each other in a realistic way. Regina was full of herself and when she was in a bad mood she let it out on the others. Or Gretchen yelled at one of the other plastics because she felt treated unfairly or pushed into a corner. It wasn't okay, but it made sense in that moment. It was teenagers losing their tempers.
It wasn't Regina turning around and spelling out to one of her friends that she is sooo dumb without any emotions displayed, just being plain mean.
Right Regina would say something snarky and most likely write it off as trying to nice the new Regina is just flat out mean in people’s face
@@yemisifamu2169 I agree! That's what made you see how deeply manipulative she truly is.
Cute Barbie Princess and the Pauper poster at 5:28 😍💖💝💗
I feel like the best description of this movie is ‘Mean Girls but it’s Dhar Mann,’
That’s so accurate it’s scary.
"This isn't your mother's mean girls, it's worse" -Alex Meyers, 2024
Only thing that changed for the good is that Cady transferred from Kenya (an actual country in the continent) instead of just Africa and having everyone assume, she lived in the jungle or sth😭. 8:03
"Not like your Mother's Mean Girls"
Yet replays the same few lines over and over again
This movie feels like an attempt to recapture lightning in a bottle. Some things are better left untouched.
Nah it was to renew the music license
11:53 I saw a tiktok of a clip of this "movie" and someone commented that it looks like a school production of the real movie. No one looks like they're actually the characters and they don't look like they are really committed to the role. I absolutely agree, now more after seeing more scenes from the movie.
Im glad I never watched it
Fr it looks like a parody
The original had production value...@#£% I watched it on a school trip and thought it was decent if really gross.
“High school production of the real movie” puts my feelings about this into words perfectly
@@clementine1827yes, the best way to describe it
One small thing I very much appreciated with the remake was that the throwaway character ‘Trang Pak’ got changed to ‘Trang Pham’. It’s a small difference but I find it huge because it’s an accurate name and representation of an Asian girl (Vietnamese specifically) and the fact they took out weirder the scenes of her in mean girls.
yes! my name is trang and as a kid i hated that the only representation with my name was a girl who’s in a predatory relationship with a teacher😭 also because trang is a vietnamese name and pak is not a vietnamese last name, so it felt like writers didn’t even bother to look up her full ethnicity. it was giving cho chang from harry potter which if you didn’t know is two last names
okay but i love that you used a part of the song Ghost love score from Nightwish at 9:12 ! love that song!!
As a gen z this movie is NOTHING like how school goes so now it’s relatable to no audience, but I’m glad they got rid of that weird plot point of the Asian girls fighting over the gym teacher.
I mean I never thought gen Z had spontaneous musicals 😂😂
that's probably cause they don't really go to school anymore, they just make tik-toks and march for whatever "activism" is trending.
@@m0t0b33That's a lie, kids were fighting to go to school during the pandemic
@Snow-xd4rv why would they fight to get sick
@@GenshinPainpactthey're teens, they thought covid was just a cold for a hot minute (like almost everyone)
I have three problems with this movie. One: Cady is so boring. The actress’ singing voice and style is SO far away from how they sing Cady’s parts on Broadway. She’s supposed to be enthusiastic, bubbly and cheerful. Instead we get this flat Mary Sue. Not to mention she doesn’t hold a candle to Renee’s powerful vocals. Two: the songs have been changed and rearranged, so a lot of the main characters don’t get to sing as much and express their parts in the story. The whole Plastics introduction on Broadway has both Gretchen and Karen singing about who they are next to Regina. That way, they are introduced as the GROUP of Mean Girls. Not just Regina. Third: the fashion sucked. Hard.
Oh yes, the fashion is soo awful.
IM SORRY???😭😭THE TOOTHBRUSH JOKE??? 15:49
EXACTLYYYY
calling us out for ReAl 🤣
Thumbs down for that cuz wth was that comment? Is it something he fantasizes that girls do?
15:48 Wait…. HUH💀
This Regina plays her role like she knows that shes playing an iconic character.
Like the fetch scene.
OG Regina was more passive aggressive, here shes really aggressive with her lline delivery
But I like her. She gives bad bitch energy, which I feel is more relatable. I’ve seen actual girls like the musical Regina and never seen a girl like the guy original mean girls ever. But I like both. I just think both have their strengths.
@amazingunreleasedalbums I’ve never met a popular person in school that came off nice. They came off mean and bitchy, which is why she resonates more with real life for me.
@@marlynfermin8676 What do you mean you've never met anyone like Regina?? You've never met someone thats nice to your face, but talks shit behind your back? Buddy, I think you might have missed the signs that someone was being fake to you because thats not an uncommon thing.
@@marlynfermin8676 What? I've honestly never met a popular person at school who was not nice. (At least to other's faces).
The one's who were too obviously rude and mean weren't actually that popular. Like I was "friends" with such a girl and she got massive backlash until she learned to be more manipulative than in-your-face mean. And even then no one truly seemed to like her, look up to her and enjoy spending time with her. So I wouldn't call this being popular.
Agreed. It’s an overly emphatic delivery imo. Idk if that’s the actresses fault though. Depends if the director asked for it to be that way.
Didn’t expect Tina Fey to ruin her own jokes so badly, the fact that Regina misunderstood Lebanese for lesbian and just ran with it was such a well done joke that required close attention to the movie was really good and to throw it away for a “spin the bottle” scenario is just dumb. Also, musical theater kid here, and I always felt the musical was just meh (except apex predator that was a bop), the original movie was way better.
To be fair, I don’t think the Lebanese joke was ever actually intentional, was it? Doesn’t excuse everything else feeling off, but still.
There were a couple good songs burn the world down wasn’t bad and Janice’s song grew on me
@@DuelaDent52 yep it was just a theory. (a movie theory!)
i don't think it was ever true, regina wasn't stupid to confuse those two, she herself says in the movie she didn't understand why janice was so obsessed with her.
@@PurpleMoon799Agreed. I always interpreted it as Regina thinking Janice was a lesbian because Janice was "obsessed" with her in middle school.
@@Rinoaeris its pretty much what she said yes 😂 this whole theory makes regina seem way dumber than she is, i know she has dumb moments like is butter a carb but come on she knows what labenese is
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I've been waiting for you to do a video on this movie...finally
Alex’s increasingly accurate jokes about lesbians lead me to become even more suspicious of him actually being two small lesbians in a trench coat
His girlfriend is bisexual. He's also a former theater kid so he's very well-versed with queer people.
BAHAHHAHAHAHHAHAHA STAWP I CANT 💀😭
i’ve never seen people look less like teenagers in a teen movie than here tbh like man these people look older than they actually are 💀💀
have you seen dear evan hansen 💀💀
@@koiloyloshhhhh we do not speak of it
It really doesn't help the stereotype of "gEn Z aGiNg LiKe MiLk".
@@koiloyloYou mean that 35 year old dude masquerading as a teen? 💀💀💀
Ikr?? I thought they looked more like college kids than teenagers, I was shocked when I found out the actress for Karen was only 17 when they filmed this cause she doesn't look it at all 💀
Karen was dumb, but atleast she wasn’t brain dead in the original movie
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As a theater kid I was genuinely screaming with my friend when we found out they cut most of “meet the plastics” 😔😡
Fr that song was so iconic how dare they remove most of it
And the duet between Cady and Aaron
Right like it's supposed to be about all of the plastics not just Regina
My sister and I left the theatre RANTING about what they did with “Stupid with Love”
@@isabellathomas1314 to be honest it’s not my fave song , but the duet is really cute like come on!
okay but can we talk abt how all of karens camera shots consisted of her randomly looking up with her eyes super wide and mouth parted??
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@@p-__ SHUT UP
Yeah it was weird
Ya it’s just so very obvious and cringey to me
Every character was completely one note 😭
15:13 THEY DO?! Ok well let me tell you middle school don't work like that in my area😅
Imagine that 2 directors got the same script but at a different time in our society and you get these 2 very different and both enjoyable movies. I watched it with this idea in mind, and I was surprised to enjoy it!
Also, I wouldn’t call it a remake since the original wasn’t a musical.
13:30 I’m glad someone else finally brought that up. I was so confused when she showed up in leather pants right after she said sweats were all that fit
It confuses me in the original as well. She's supposedly gained all this weight, can only fit into sweatpants, but then we see her in low rise jeans during the Burn Book page distribution scene. Even if she lost all that weight, it would've taken weeks.
@@edwardsdistress5599 i brought this up to my friend when I realized it and he tried to say it was just Regina exaggerating bout the sweat pants but considering she knew the rules why would she risk wearing sweats before Friday if she could obviously fit in other clothes
Couldn't she just ... buy new leather pants after school?
@@MaraMara89this. I always assumed she bought new jeans in the OG. We all have that morning when our clothes don’t fit bc kaltene bars am I right?
Movie makers assuming that Gen Z doesn’t care about old movies because they’re, “old fashioned and boring”
Want to know what my favourite movie is? Jaws. Made fifty years ago
My dad has shown me movies from the 1930s-50s and some of them are among my favourite movies. The comedies were actually very tight, clever and quick. Not boring.
Ah snap.
I’ve loved movies that came out long before I was born and the OG Mean Girls was one of my favorites and I loved all the songs in the OG musical but it’s kinda disappointing what they did
Mine is white chick's, never fails 2 make me laugh
Idk, not long ago I’ve seen a tiktok w a lot of likes on how it’s impossible all these celebrities on letterboxd challenge “name movies older than 20 years when asked about their favourites”. Comments were calling them snobs and such🙄
okay, but no > the song at 10:08 is not about "girls liking to dress up" it's a whole satire song about the very absurdity of people expecting "girls" to dress up sexy for Halloween or making a "costume" by dressing hot and calling it a costume. let alone the fun the song actually is.
It's been so long since I heard Ghost Love Score as a meme. Thank you Alex.
It’s funny how this movie says it’s trying to be its own thing yet nearly every scene just feels like a clip show of all the iconic lines and moments from the original but made in a way that feels like the director is sitting behind you with his hands on your shoulders and going “Oh here we go, look, this part is coming up” in that tone of fake excitement you use when you desperately want someone to enjoy something that *you* think is good
One think I am so happy for is that they didn't remove the "GLEN COCO GLEN COCO GLEN COCO" chant in revenge party. So thankful, the best part and most not needed part of the song💀
I love the GLEN COCO chant! I admit my friend and I were a little disappointed they changed where Regina cheats on Aaron versus the stage musical, if only because that dancing, gyrating North Shore Lions costume is one of those "if I had to see it, so do you" kinds of things.
@@fairycat23 ye I understand
15:10-16:10
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One thing I like is that they didn't remove the "He's too gay to function line" and so on, because I can see a world where that would be considered "too offensive to keep in" when in reality it's funny and I think many LGBT members agree.
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Agreed, also wth is this comment section. It’s sad guys, replying the same thing on all the comments on here.
It's funny when it's organic, it seemed like a reflex response, or a forced reference to the original in the clip shown here. I don't know how it comes across in context though.
It’s literally me
thank you for mentioning the male lead. Respectfully, I'm so sick of Hollywood trying to gaslight me into thinking perfectly average people are hot ...why can I find like 4 of you at walmart on a Wednesday? This isn't what I paid for.
isn't it usually the other way around? Hollywood gaslighting us into thinking hot guys are perfectly average?
I would think it was good they were not just portraying unbelievably chiselled jawline in average high-school. Although there were a couple guys I thought were handsome lads in my school...I am not that way.
IKR, I'm so tired of pretending these people are attractive. And people will get so "overprotective" or "offended" for a random actor. IF THEY ARENT, THEY ARENT. That's it.
@@Blueishhman Uhhhh...what? I do not think Hollywood pretends anything. I think it is who is in the school.
@@johnnotrealname8168 what are you talking about? 💀. Re read my comment ig.
amazing video, keep up the work!
"Whatever our souls are made of, yours and I are the same!!" Dang man! Dropping facts.
Movie musicals were once the biggest tent pole of Hollywood. Now it’s something that everyone is just embarrassed by. Why did this happen? How did this happen?
as a theater kid i hate that this is what represents us
I mean, yeah, just let us theater nerds be our own thing we don’t have to be mainstream because that just makes us the problem and liking feeder is more cringe than ever
I’m not really someone who comments, but as a fellow theater kid: just pivoting to say that ‘Hazbin Hotel’ is my new everything. All the best Broadway talent. Not a movie, but an animated musical series that is just…Listen, it’s so good that if you don’t have Prime, everyone should listen to the songs on CZcams. It’s so good that I’m risking incredibly uncomfortable social-interaction awkwardness right now. (And it’s definitely not mainstream, in my opinion…yet…I think… (lol))
@@VioletStar3its incredibly mainstream wym?
My thing is people think this musical is new. But it's been a thing for like 7 years.
“On Wednesdays we wear SHEIN”
“Whatever our souls are made of, yours and mine are the same” is such a meta line.
I don't know how I found your channel. But I'm glad I did.
"Sexy" might have done nothing for the plot, but it was the most entertaining thing for me in the whole movie. And I spent the whole movie going "Wow, Regina and Cady are really into each other".
Yes! They should’ve said “fuck Aaron, let’s date each other.” In the credits, Regina does kiss Cady’s forehead.
I love sexy so much
Sexy did do something for the plot, it shows Karen's innocence but girls obsessions with looking hot on Halloween. Th only thing IS that they forgot the other scenes leading up to that so it failed
Literally everyone is gay in this movie
It was a bop, not going to lie.
And the last scene Regina and Cady had with each other, I was thinking 'Regina, just asked her out already.' lol
Honestly, LOVE that Alex brought up the whole "guys can do whatever they want and not get called out for it" thing. Everyone has different experiences but mine fell more in line with his. I've never seen a guy NOT get called out or insulted back for being a jerk. Maybe I was just "fortunate" enough to have that childhood.🤷♀
EDIT: I should clarify, I’m JUST focusing on what people say about guys because it’s never addressed. Women have a side to this too but it’s already talked about a lot more.😅
It happens, but it happens with women too. There are people out there whose mean behavior isn't called out, regardless of gender. I hate when Hollywood takes this weird black and white approach to this topic. It just feels like an excuse for problematic women to get away with being awful, so they write it in their movies and tv shows, they just use the "Well, if I was a man and I did this, no one would care, therefore it's okay when I do it!" excuse. That's another thing that I find annoying about the line.
I don't agree when Alex says that it's not true that boys don't have it as hard as girls. If Regina were a boy, she'd be punched in face for half the shit she does.
You've never called out a man for being a jerk? I sure have.
YES, agreed!!
I think the movie (and by extension Alex) misunderstood the trope of women being called a bitch. There is a gender gap in which women who don't show enough emotion are considered bitchy even when they aren't being mean. Whereas men are able to act more "cold" and not necessarily be called a dick for it. I believe the research around this particularly looks at men and women in leadership positions in a corporate setting. The movie seems to have not understood this form of misogyny at all and instead tried to say that guys aren't called out when they're mean, which I think we can all agree isn't true.
8:53- Lmao hahaha I literally thought you were talking about the first guy at first!!! Until the other guy turned around! That was hilarious!!!
FINALLY YOU MADE A VIDEO ON THIS MOVIE
"3 seconds ago"? What do you mean CZcams?
Ikr!
Ig we're early
I got three minutes. Early squad
Fr
My farts are better than Alex's farts
Love how he dropped this movie on a Wednesday
Bc on Wednesdays we wear pink 😁
10:48 😭😭😭💀💀💀
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Also: What ever our souls are made of, yours and mine are the same 😭😭
It's crazy that Tina Fey played the same character 20 years apart and still looks the exact same
“It’s not bad, but just, like, why?” - Alex Meyers, 2024
That could be the motto of the entire 21st century so far.
Someone said that the whole film looks like a bunch of music videos stiched together, and I agree.
Never thought about it but yes it does. And not good ones😂
Been waiting for thisss
15:36 this is way funnier to me when it's like 4Am in the morning
Something I just realized about Caddy's Halloween costume. She still looks passably (compared to her usual look) pretty in it. I loved that Caddy in the original went all out with the fake teeth, make up and whole look to sell the zombie bride/bridezilla idea. She thought it was about dressing scary.
The costumes in his movie suck. Like I saw another comment say in regards to this film; These girls look like girls the original mean girls would bully.
Regina has had a chic/preppy/girly mixed with whatever SHE wanted feel to her wardrobe. Sometimes she was super fashionable, sometimes she was out there, sometimes she was relatively relaxed. She did not follow trends, even for the time she was in when the film was made. Plus the actress was, Rachel McAdams was 26 and Lindsey was like 18. This gave her an older feel, but still passable as a 18 year old high school student. It added to her bitchiness as a character and her leadership status.
8:52 Im sorry but this was such a jumpscare like why does he look like that💀
omg😭😭😭
Unattractive.
Man y’all are a bunch of Reginas here 💀
@@Rosa-kd2clI think it's the way he turns that makes it so jarring.
Like, my god, he's going to break his neck. It looks so uncomfortable.
Tbf ignoring bullies stopped me from being bullied in middle school. I just stopped caring & boom no more bullying.
Then I went to a new school & had a glow up (finished puberty) then had people genuinely showing interest in me & I thought they were just trying to bully me so I ignored them. Ended up hurting many guys...
I love how everyone just ignores random going into the girls bathroom and trying to get someone to come put, like what where the teachers doing
"But just, like, WhY?"
I think you have just about summed the movie up.
Dropped this on a Wednesday I see you 💖
My farts are better than Alex's farts
@@p-__cool
Alex meyers inspires me, my parents said if I get 1k likes they'd get me a better cam for recording, begging u guys. Literally begging
mmmhmm
@@p-__good for you 😂
Their cinematography and editing is AMAZING yes
I have been waiting for this
As an African, it's so hilarious house she's just sitting in a national park or something ☠️ literally no one ever does that
Fr, we have literal hotels in national parks. No need to thug it out in a tent
I love how Hollywood thinks all of Africa’s wild lands are just barren and dry near-deserts. They did it in The Lion King remake too.
@@DuelaDent52The Lion King was never supposed to have humans and some of Africa is kinda like that
Her mom is a zoologist, so it kinda makes sense in this context
One thing I know about Hollywood now a days is they don't know how to remake movies
It’s not a remake of the old 2004 movie. It’s a remake of the Broadway musical adaptation of Mean Girls. Don’t get me wrong, it’s still a crappy remake. But it was bound to be crap because they tried to turn a stage performance into a movie by slowing down songs and all that. Trust me when I say that the original stage musical of it was better than this crap they gave us.
@@YourFavBritishBoy_PipPirrupI hated any of the songs Angourie Rice sang, WHY WOULD THEY DO THAT TO STUPID WITH LOVE, THAT WAS ONE OF MY FAV SONGS AND THEY MADE IT SO BORING
@@YourFavBritishBoy_PipPirrupthe original stage musical was better yeah, but it still wasn’t GOOD…
This movie feels like the Disney channel straight to dvd/streaming version
The Barbie poster 😭💗💗💗💗💗so adorable. ( 0:29 )
When I heard we were getting another Mean Girls I genuinely thought it was going to be like, the original girls grew up and had kids and now their kids were going to be dealing with today's high school issues. I didnt know it was just a musical remake 😕
That would’ve been better
Yeah I would have enjoyed that.
They "kinda" did that, except it was just some phoned in ads for Walmart or some other store (can't remember which). So, what you said, but not even close at the same time 😅
@@JonazDrumBrain You're right, it is walmart
Same. Idk why but I thought this was the case with Lindsay as the School Counsellor. LMFAO
Hollywood trying not to lie about their musicals being musicals
What sucks is that there are actual movie musicals that are good.
the only saving grace of this movie is Renee Rapp as Regina, she actually played Regina at one point on Broadway and she is SO GOOD, Plus she is gorgeous, as a bisexual? I was LIVING for all of her solo moments on camera, specifically at the Halloween party
2:30 as a lesbian myself. This is accurate.
This seems like a drama play at a highschool function by regular highschoolers tbh