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Third time isn\u2019t a charm for Tina Fey\u2019s barbed comedy. It has been exactly two decades since the original Mean Girls strutted down the corridors of North Shore High School and vowed to make \u201cfetch\u201d happen as a superlative in teen lingo.<\/p>\n
Aside from acknowledging the impact of social media since 2004 and deweaponising homophobia in the bubblegum pink Burn Book, which Regina George (Rene\u00e9 Rapp) and fellow Plastics fill with tittle tattle, the new Mean Girls rests on its academic laurels but\u00a0only achieves a passing final grade.<\/p>\n
A surprise cameo during the Mathletes state championships is glorious but only stokes our nostalgia for the \u00adgroundbreaking original, which joined Heathers and Clueless in the top set of exuberant schoolday celebrations.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n
Fey\u2019s script cuts and pastes her most quotable lines. Out and proud student Damian Hubbard (the phenomenal Jaquel Spivey) is still \u201ctoo gay to function\u201d and he is armed with the same zinging one-liner about The Plastics\u2019 queen of gossip, Gretchen Wieners (Bebe Wood): \u201cThat\u2019s why her hair is so big, it\u2019s full of secrets!\u201d<\/p>\n
Auli\u2018i Cravalho, better known as the soaring voice of Disney\u2019s \u00adsea-faring heroine Moana, is another powerhouse as Damian\u2019s partner in crime, who persuades new girl Cady Heron (Angourie Rice) to infiltrate the ranks of The Plastics.<\/p>\n
The clique\u2019s pretty poison corrupts Cady and a secret crush on Regina\u2019s old flame (Christopher Briney) strikes the fatal blow to sisterly solidarity.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n
First-time wife and husband directors Samantha Jayne and Arturo Perez Jr energise some musical numbers and let the air out of others.<\/p>\n
Inconsistent camerawork can\u2019t dim the brilliance of Rapp though, who reprises Regina from the Broadway stage \u00adproduction and is a supernova of slinky seduction. Her formidable queen bee really stings.<\/p>\n
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