The Cinematic Review-verse

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...

Photo courtesy of joblo.com Moana was a comedic and musical thrill produced by Walt Disney Animation Studios. In this film, Moana (Auli'i Cravalho) is the daughter of the chief of Motunui, a Polynesian village that is low on food supply and medical options. She sails off to bring the once-beautiful life back to her home, encountering dangerous marine life and the shape-shifting demigod Maui (Dwayne Johnson) in the process.  Moana showed that a young teenager had no fear in bringing lost honor back to her land, confronting gods and everything bigger than her, and she was a very bold heroine. The film had a bright and lovely landscape, perfect animation and styling, and an encouraging musical number, with songs by famed playwright Lin-Manuel Miranda and Opetaia Foa'i. For my favorite songs of the soundtrack, I'm going to go with "How Far I'll Go" and "You're Welcome". I encourage audiences to see Moana,   where the main characters can teac...