Tina Fey comes out creating this phenomenon that has had a recent remake
We probably won’t agree on which is the laziest trend in current mainstream cinema, but I see it as impossible for us not to all agree that those are among the worst. remakes that contribute nothing. With Disney at the head of the phenomenon, we see films that change format (for example from animation to live action) but nothing more, completely defying the minimum requirements to have a reason for being.
Of course, there are commercial reasons, which are what matters to these companies, but that only results in a dangerous cynicism where it is only about accommodate the memory of the most nostalgic viewer. Not only animated films experience this, as we have seen with a musical remake of the otherwise sensational ‘Mean Girls’.
The institute’s fauna
This fabulously iconic teen high school comedy satire is the pinnacle of Lindsay Lohan’s career, a fabulous platform for Rachel McAdams, and confirmation of Tina Fey’s genius as a comedic mind. Today 20 years have passed since its release in cinemas and can be streamed through SkyShowtime.
After spending her entire childhood in Africa with her research parents, young Cady has to confront another type of fauna upon arrival at a middle-American high school. There you will realize that social hierarchies are like those of the jungle, with its alpha predators and its easy prey. Suddenly she will captivate the attention of the queen of the jungle: Regina George, leader of the meanest but untouchable group of girls in the class.
With the effective work of a mainstream comedy official like Mark Waters, Fey polishes here that particular and fabulous approach where It leads to the absurd both behaviors and pop references that mark the society of the moment. And he manages to do it without generating ironic distance, knowing how to generate sympathy for these representatives (stereotypes?) of youth even if they are exaggerated.
‘Mean Girls’: generational comedy
It is not incompatible to treat the characters with affection with ruffle the loop of laughable adolescent behavior. ‘Mean Girls’ proves it with a good collection of well-chained thankssome converted into pop references in themselves such as the expression “fetch”, the book to make mistakes from the rest of the girls at school or the clumsy sexy-Christmas musical number.
Fey knows how to hide her bile from the script so that an effective and heartfelt story of sisterhood that is still relevant transpires, but at the same time is remembered for its pungent humor. Here we also have two great youthful performances in Lohan and McAdams, who continue to work as on the first day, where perhaps it was more difficult to see that this It was going to end up being a generational comedy.
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