What’s going on with the Mean Girls movie-musical is a perfect example of cultural distortion. Start with the fact that the 2004 film Mean Girls (directed by Mark Waters) was never good, although fans endorsed its inane satire about guileful and insecure young girls going through life with bad manners. The script by Saturday Night Live veteran Tina Fey stole from the John Hughes ’80s comedies and later indie hits Clueless and Heathers, pilfering their exposé of high-school cliques and adolescent style. Fey’s superficial approach appealed to such banal taste — some reviewers erroneously refer to it as a “classic.”
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