Mean Girls (2024)

"Feels akin to attending your high-school reunion; it is nice to see everyone again after all this time, but there is no reason to hang around too long."

"Comes off as enforced fun, a kind of bullying disguised as entertainment."

"Just hit me with a bus instead."

"It’s not a bad thing, really, but mainly feels like an unnecessary one."

"A ton of fun."

"An unsatisfying, culturally irrelevant musical rehash of a teen classic."

"A hot mess."

"The movie’s true star is Rapp, who transforms queen bee Regina into a she-monster of epic proportions."

"All the effervescence and fun have been drained out of the material."

"Oh, how it tries."

"Rapp... plays Regina as if she were the central figure in “The Real Housewives of High School.” It’s a star-in-the-making performance."

"It’s the old Mean Girls with smartphones, essentially, with an attendant risk of redundancy."

"Holds its own in the constantly evolving biosphere of teen cinema."

"(Rapp) is a force-of-nature knockout, honouring but not imitating Rachel McAdams’s beautiful bullying from the first film."

"Sometimes, you get it right the first time."

"It’s not especially tart and is undeniably over-padded, but its charms and ingratiating likability remain intact."

"Occasionally delightful and usually fun, even if the translation to 2024 definitely has its rough spots."

"The positives don’t outweigh the negatives here."

"A musical reimagining worth watching."

"Perfectly translates to the TikTok age and still manages to remain a complete scream."

"A solid high-school comedy keeps stopping dead for a series of... so-so MTV videos."

"This smart, lively merging of stage and screen is best when it doesn't feel like a remake at all."

"As long as you aren’t going into this movie looking for a deep, epic thinkpiece on modern feminism, you can have a blast."