When I saw Mean Girls (2024) on Thursday night the 11th of January, I was enthralled by the musical numbers and the energy in the main teen cast. And though some of the original film's stuff got rehashed in a good way along with the music, it should've cut down on the old humor after a while and put in some new material. The plot's pretty much the same as the original film: After years of homeschooling in Africa, Cady Heron , played by Angourie Rice , who played Betty Brant in Marvel Studios' Spider-Man films, transfers to North Shore High School in America. But it's still a jungle adventure and misadventure when she must outwit the school's unscrupulous social hierarchy, dominated by The Plastics trio clique, led by Regina George , played by Reneé Rapp, who is beautiful yet barbaric. She gets help and guidance in the form of Janis 'Imi'ike and Damian Hubbard , played by Auli'i Cravalho from Moana and Jaquel Spivey , respectively. How to c...