The new take on Mean Girls is finally streaming on Amazon Prime. Will this adaptation of the Broadway show of the classic early 2000s film really work? What has changed and what has stayed the same?
The iconic teen comedy film Mean Girls (2004) was an experience itself. The teen generation of that era started calling it an insane classic, and it influenced many of them. Now that it is 2024, Mean Girls (2024) is again released, creating insane hype among teens and young adults! Because it’s pretty much the same. The 2024 version follows the basic plot of the original pretty much exactly: Fish out of water Katie Heron is thrust into a new, scary world of high school drama, makes friends and frenemies, and learns some hard lessons on the way to figuring out how to be herself in this wild world.
The huge difference is that this version is much more musical than its Broadway counterpart. Recreating an iconic idea can always be tricky, but this opportunity by the filmmakers helped bring this version of Mean Girls to life from a new, different point of view.
Mean Girls (2024) is cleverly updated for modern times in several ways, such as the incorporation of TikTok throughout the film. The cinematography is flashy and bright. The movie has always had an undercurrent of racism, but the new version is both more diverse in its casting and deliberately moves away from the negative stereotypes that the original leaned into, for instance.
Mean Girls (2024) on Amazon Prime now and see for yourself how this modern twist plays out!
