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47 reviews · Provided by Metacritic.com
- 83The Globe and Mail (Toronto)Barry HertzThe Globe and Mail (Toronto)Barry HertzRapp, who originated the role of Regina on Broadway, is a force-of-nature knockout, honouring but not imitating Rachel McAdams’s beautiful bullying from the first film with a sly kind of menace.
- 75Movie NationRoger MooreMovie NationRoger MooreIt’s as fun as ever, and edgier than you remember.
- 75IndieWireKate ErblandIndieWireKate ErblandAs familiar as much of this will feel — and as easy as it will be for even causal fans of the original to toss off word-for-word line readings of iconic scenes — the new stars that line Samantha Jayne and Arturo Perez Jr.’s film add fresh dimension to the “Mean Girls” mythos.
- 75Entertainment WeeklyMaureen Lee LenkerEntertainment WeeklyMaureen Lee LenkerAs it did in 2004, Mean Girls is a playground for a melange of fresh, new talent for whom we hope the limit does not exist. Did we really need another film version? No. But it’s pretty grool that the one we got is such fun.
- 70The Film VerdictAlonso DuraldeThe Film VerdictAlonso DuraldeChirpy, as colorful as Skittles, and occasionally, appropriately, acrid, Mean Girls is a pleasantly bouncy reworking of the 2004 comedy of the same name.
- 70VarietyOwen GleibermanVarietyOwen GleibermanYou can rest assured that Mean Girls, the movie musical, sticks close to the spirit and to the letter of the movie that updated and mythologized the culture of gossip and backstabbing for a new generation. The new movie nudges the material into our own era in a handful of ways.
- 63USA TodayBrian TruittUSA TodayBrian TruittThe new “Girls” sticks to the script plotwise, to a slavish degree. Even Fey and Tim Meadows playing their old teacher roles seems forced and uninspired. It’s only when the movie remembers it’s a musical that it refreshingly breaks from the norm.
- 60Total FilmKevin HarleyTotal FilmKevin HarleyA little more than a remake yet less than a makeover, Tina Fey’s watchable, well-cast revisit needed more daring to be wholly worthwhile.
- 58The A.V. ClubLeigh MonsonThe A.V. ClubLeigh MonsonThe songs and the performances thereof have been packaged in such a way that they are now more accessible than ever, for an audience that mostly never got to see them performed as originally staged. Yet the film that inspired them has been reduced to a hollow shell in which to carry them, like so much plastic meant to be thrown away.
- 40The Hollywood ReporterDavid RooneyThe Hollywood ReporterDavid RooneyAll 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.