"Mean Girls Just Wanna Have Revenge"

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The musical movie version of MEAN GIRLS is pretty entertaining. It also some great songs and fun choreography. The movie’s resolution includes a positive redemptive message about being honest with other people without being cruel. However, some of the lyrics are hard to hear. Also, MEAN GIRLS has a strong, godless Non-Christian Romantic worldview with pro-homosexual content, a racist attitude toward black men, foul language, and underage alcohol use. So, the movie is excessive and unacceptable according to MOVIEGUIDE®’s biblical standards.
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MEAN GIRLS is a movie version of the Broadway musical comedy written by SNL alumnus Tina Fay based on her 2004 movie about a new girl at a cliquish high school who gets too wrapped up in the underhanded machinations of the three most popular girls on campus. MEAN GIRLS has some great music and a positive redemptive message about being honest with other people without being cruel, but the movie has a strong, godless non-Christian Romantic worldview with pro-homosexual content, a racist attitude toward black men, foul language, and underage alcohol use.
The movie opens in Kenya where 16-year-old Cady is upset that her single mother has decided to take a college job in the United States. Cady resigns herself to her fate, however. So, on the first day of school, she sings hopefully about the future.
However, Cady runs into a couple mean comments. She’s also bewildered by all the different high school cliques, especially the difficulties of finding a seat at lunch.
Two outsiders befriend Cady, a large effeminate black guy and a lesbian art student, Damien and Janis. They introduce Cady to all the different cliques. They also tell her to stay away from the three most popular girls in school, who they call the Plastics, because they are so fake and hard. The Queen Bee of this clique is a girl named Regina George. Regina enters the lunchroom singing a song touting her amazing talents and beauty.
Unexpectedly, Regina invites Cady to have lunch with her and her friends Karen and Gretchen. Cady naively agrees, even though Janis tells her to beware. Regina explains some of the rules of the group to Cady. Cady goes along with them, because she finds the rules bewildering.
Cady tries to be friends with Regina as well as Damien and Janis, but she makes the mistake of becoming attracted to Regina’s handsome ex-boyfriend, Aaron. When Regina finds out, she turns the tables on Cady and wins back Aaron.
Janis suggests to Cady ways that Cady can ruin Regina’s reputation. When they fail, Cady realizes how badly Regina treats her friend, Gretchen. She manipulates Gretchen to tell her some secrets about Regina, which give Cady a foolroof way to hurt Regina the most.
The musical movie version of MEAN GIRLS is pretty entertaining. It also has some great songs and fun choreography. The movie’s resolution of the plot problem includes a positive redemptive message about being honest with other people without being cruel. You don’t want to call someone fat to their face, for instance, though you might want to tell them they need to lose some weight, especially if you can help them lose those extra pounds.
However, as with many new musicals these days, some of the lyrics are drowned out by the loud music and by bad pronunciation. That wasn’t the case with the old Hollywood musicals featuring Fred Astaire, Ginger Rogers, Judy Garland, Gene Kelly, and other stars of yesteryear. This is really a shame, as well as annoying.
Also, like the original 2004 movie, MEAN GIRLS has a strong, godless non-Christian Romantic worldview. Thus, although the movie implies there’s a sinful and hateful mean streak in everyone, it also says that people are mostly innocent and can be oppressed and corrupted by the social milieu around them. In addition, MEAN GIRLS has strong pro-homosexual content, a racist attitude toward black men, plenty of foul language and underage alcohol use during teenage party scenes.
So, MOVIEGUIDE® finds the MEAN GIRLS musical to be ultimately excessive and unacceptable.