Despite what its marketing might suggest, “Mean Girls” (in theaters), the latest in a set of pink-accented nesting dolls, is irrefutably a movie musical.
Adapted from the 2018 Broadway musical, which was itself based on the 2004 film, which was in turn inspired by the 2002 nonfiction book “Queen Bees and Wannabes,” this new version has singing.
It has one delectable moment in which the members of the school marching band raise their saxophones and tubas high.
Barring a split-second shot of the band, you wouldn’t know that from the film’s trailers.
It was made to look instead like a vaguely edgier remix of the 2004 film.
Persons:
Regina George, —, Olivia Rodrigo’s “
Organizations:
Bees