'Mean Girls' Musical fans reacted to the modern film set of the screen adaptation of Tinna Fey's 2004 movie 'Mean Girls,' which would be released on January 12 after 20 years.
Fans have been analyzing the first trailer released last week and questioned that there were no hints that the adaptation was musical.
Fans React to 'Mean Girls' Musical
NEW YORK, NY - APRIL 13: Tina Fey poses with the cast of 'Mean Girls' at Variety's Power of Women: New York at Cipriani Wall Street on April 13, 2018 in New York City.
The trailer showed the opening title, "This is Not Your Mother's Mean Girls," was an obvious play for Gen Z fans. However, the Gen Z theme in the film was alienating for the millennials who watched the original movie.
'Mean Girls' fever remained after 20 years, and even with a comeback of the new generation, as quotes from the movie such as making "fetch" happen, wearing pink on Wednesdays, and telling people "you can't sit with us" were still trending on social media.
The new trailer was soundtracked by Olivia Rodrigo, which featured Coach Carr, who famously cautioned students not to have sex as they would get pregnant and die using TikTok.
Fans were shocked when the new film was set in 2024, not 2004. "I thought the Mean Girls musical movie would be a period piece set in the early 2000s," one X user, formerly known as Twitter, wrote.
The user added that it feels wrong to set the new film in the present day. One fan claimed that the film's concept would not work in 2024 as society has changed a lot.
Fans said the original film was based on a millennial story, and adapting it to the modern day would feel forced. A woman said that she fears the contemporary Mean Girls redux would only end in disaster given how firmly rooted the original was in early 2000s culture.
'Mean Girls' Musical
The movie posters feature the famous strapline "Plastic is forever." Tina Fey and Tim Meadows would imitate their original roles as teachers at North Shore High, but a lot has changed for the "Plastics" who reigned in 2004.
The intrinsic plot points in the 2004 film were about diet culture, slut-shaming, and female stereotypes. The plot begins with protagonist Cady Heron's extensive sabotage of queen bee Regina George, which involves making Regina gain weight by giving her nutrition bars to help malnourished people.
The present storyline would now attract accusations of sexism and fatphobia. The 'Mean Girls' Broadway show was set in 2018, while the plot, characters, and aesthetic remain the same from the classic.
The musical and the classic in 2004 share the theme of being thin, disengaged with academia, and having a hot boyfriend would be one of the best ways to be liked or feared on campus. However, several high school stories have already turned the age-old concept of teenage cliques from fresh angles.
"Mean Girls belongs to the aughts," one fan wrote, who asked: "Would there be a burn book in 2023?"
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