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REVIEW: Mean Girls still trying to make fetch happen, this time with music

Reboot of 20-year-old film comedy classic leans heavy into Broadway version
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This image released by Paramount Pictures shows Busy Philipps in a scene from “Mean Girls.” (Jojo Whilden/Paramount via AP)

The first “Mean Girls,” that compulsively watchable high-school based social satire by Tina Fey, came out in 2004. The Broadway musical opened in 2018. Now it’s 2024, and we have a screen adaptation of the theater adaptation. How long will this reconfiguring go on? Is there a limit?

Or … does the limit not exist?

Forgive us that utterly blatant setup for one of the original’s most famous lines.

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