It might surprise you to know that Mean Girls — yes, the endlessly quotable high school comedy that seemingly came out five years ago — has been remade for a new generation.
But there’s something genius about this version of the modern classic, when the Y2K esthetics that defined it in 2004 (flip phones and corset tops and miniskirts galore) are very much back in vogue among today’s teens and 20-somethings.
Unlike the film’s marketing, I won’t bury the lede: The new Mean Girls is a movie musical and an adaptation of the show that premiered on Broadway in 2018, which in turn is an adaptation of the
