Cinepals - Mean Girls (2024) Reaction & Review!

Episode Date: March 8, 2024

Jaby and Syntell watch Mean Girls (2024), a movie musical based off of the SMASH HIT broadway musical based off the same the 2004 movie of the same name! Mean Girls stars: Reneé Rapp, Avantika Vandanapu, Angourie Rice, Christopher Briney, Christopher Briney, Tina Fey, Jenna Fischer, Jaquel Spivey, Tim Meadows, Jon Hamm, & Lindsay Lohan Watch our full length reaction on https://www.Patreon.com/JabyKoay or watch the cutdown of the reaction the CinePals YouTube channel https://www.YouTube.com/@cinepals   SOCIAL MEDIA ~CinePals~ YouTube: @CinePals Twitter, Instagram & TikTok: @TheCinePals ~Jaby Koay~ Twitter & Instagram: @Jabykoay ~Syntell Koay~ Twitter, Instagram, & Youtube: @Syntell  

Senna. Pals. So this has been my favorite dance music. Yeah, that's my... This is very well done and well choreographed. We're about to watch Mean Girls, the new one. I am very excited to jump into this. Here we go.

I really, really enjoyed that. like, way more than I should have. Do you like this more than the original? I think I do. I think I had more laughs on this one. And I didn't realize how much I appreciated the music. The music was phenomenal. Like, really, really good.

Are you still playing yours? Yeah, yeah. You're watching kids dance. Yeah, no, the girls being fed the drink. Oh, they're frenzies now. Oh, it's good. She's high. I mean, I'm guessing this is what it would kind of look like if you're in high school

and like videotaping randomly with your phone. Yeah. So everybody's got a camera now. Oh, yeah. I mean, you see you're holding it. I think I like the original more. Okay. Yeah, like I feel like I had more laughs with you.

As soon as I said it too. I feel like I had more laughs with the original, but I would have to rewatch my reaction and then watch this one back to see for sure. Right. But I do remember us being surprised how much we liked the original. original, too, though. Yeah. You know, it's just, it's just really, I mean, it's Tina Faye. Tina Faye don't really miss a lot.

She's just a really good producer and a writer, you know? I am curious. I couldn't, like, I hope this is not like a, like, wrong to ask. I feel like it's perfectly legitimate to ask, but they showed a lot of LGBTQ relationships in the background and stuff like that. I mean, and the foreground. And the foreground. You know, we had some main characters as well, sure.

But, like, I'm curious for anyone watching who is, I. either in high school or just out of high school if that feels familiar. Like if that represents like your experience in high school. Because when I was in high school, I didn't see that very much. Not that those people didn't exist. Like they always existed. But I just didn't see those kinds of relationships with the PDA, like full on display. When I was at the prom, I didn't see anything like that.

But we live in a different era now. And so I just would love to know if that's kind of what it looks like now, if that's the landscape. I'm willing to bet that this is just a parody on high school. school in general because there's a lot of stuff that in my regular eyes with this this has just been ramped and amped up yeah so i would assume it's like that for all members involved whatever whatever group you you want to be a part of yeah there's this is going to be just you know a little over the top on on all efforts that's what i'm assuming but of course by no but like what i was in high school i saw people making out they just it it was not ever anyone that was not heterosexual though

you know oh okay i see what you're saying i see what you're saying okay okay okay and does that just happened now, I would assume so, right? That's what I'm curious about, is if that if it's changed that much, then we have that much acceptance now that we've got to that level. You know what I mean? Well, this is also in California, too. Like, I don't know if those

rules play the same if you're like, you know, in Tupelo and Mississippi. You know, I just, it might be a little different. Hey, man, I don't know. I don't know. Yeah, you know, it's just, you know, I guess it just depends on where you're at.

Yeah. One of the things they emphasized here was just how the phone and social media will also affect your life versus before that. You know, when me and girls, the first one came out, that wasn't as much of a thing. And so it's very incorporated now in this one. Yeah. And so like the ability to ruin someone's life is so much easier now with social media than it was back when we were in high school. I like that that was an update that was added on to this because it just makes sense. And it's also kind of like a cautionary thing.

thing for parents who see this is like, yo, like, if you've got kids, you've got to be aware that your kids are going to have to combat this. I thought it was interesting that they brought the burn book back because I don't know if kids still do that. I remember there being things like a burn. It wasn't a real book, but I do remember that people having drawings being passed on, little gossip things that would be passed on. It wasn't as organized as a burn book. Yeah. But that seems like such an analog thing today, right? I was, I'm surprised that they maintain that from the older version and didn't go with, you know, like, I don't know, like a burned TikTok account or something like that.

I think it works better for me as an old head that's watching this for the second time, because I can certainly associate with the burn book, the idea of that more so than how kids do that today. It wouldn't surprise me. It wouldn't surprise me, honestly, if they, like, the thing is, like, you see this, I don't want to say regression, but this sort of like bringing back a film, like, that's become a hobby again. for a lot of people just because they want something different.

You know, things come in ebb and flow. And I think that when you're in high school, it's entirely possible that people share those little polaroid things. And so analog is not dead. It's just different, you know, in the way that it's used. And you're probably right. They're probably, you know, a burnt, an actual physical burned book maybe not be a thing anymore.

But you needed that for this movie because, like, it's just, it, that seems so central to just the, I don't know, the premise of the film, You know what I mean? Something I think that was kind of interesting, too. The actress playing Katie, even though I thought she did a very good job, I think she might have been the weakest link out of all of the cast. Everybody else, to me, was just like head and shoulders above her.

And I'm not saying that to be disrespectful to Katie. I'm saying that that's a testament to how good, you know, some of the other co-stars were. I thought Regina was amazing when she was doing all of her singing. She was awesome. I loved, what was it, Janice, the one that her final song towards the end was just super dope. I thought Damien was funny. Karen, to me, stole the show with all of her ditsiness and falling all over the place. Gretchen was hot, was dope. Like, a lot of the side characters really, really shined. And, you know, for me, I don't really see that a whole lot regarding,

like, the burden of carrying the film being on one person. I feel like the co-stars actually carried the movie more than the actual star did. I think he was good. Initially, I was unsure Renee Rapp, who plays Regina, made sense. because initially because she's so old um it's it's not her it's not that i i don't mind her age because like i grew up with saved by the bell and power rangers and so i'm used to people being like proper grown-ups playing high school kids her demeanor and her way of playing it was so real compared to everybody else who was more like this is theater you know like you know where it felt more over the top who Karen was great who in real life goes by one name avontica

I wouldn't mind seeing her in something else. It's tough to pull off funny. Funny is very difficult. And if you could be funny, I think you can transition to do a lot more other things, dramatically speaking. And she had great timing. She was just, yeah, she was always in the moment. So I'm curious about her as an actress.

I'll definitely look for her for other stuff. The thing I liked most about this movie was the timing with the choreography and the camera work and stuff like that. I thought it was so well done in that regard and so creative. And the thing that I appreciate about this film was they didn't seek to just redo the first movie and just update it a little bit.

They made it a completely different experience. Like this is, to me, this is a fundamentally different experience from the first film. Oh, I completely agree with you on that. Yes. Yeah, because just by virtue of the fact that it's a, it's a musical, right? And the approach to doing the musical elements, I was, I'm not a musical person outside of watching, you know, Indian films. When it comes to American musicals, I don't typically volunteer to watch that kind of stuff.

This actually really appealed to me just because I found it to be very creative in terms of the dance movement, working with the camera, and like the way the camera was being used, even little things where the camera was kind of rotating as it went underneath people and around and stuff like that. Like that long dance sequence with the friend, the art friend, I forgot her name. Is it? Janice. Janus. Okay. Yeah.

Like when she had her long, a music moment before. or Regina gets hit by the bus. That shit was bananas. Like, it's not just a oner. It's a very creative oneer where I don't even realize I'm watching a water. The thing that I hate about oners today is I notice them. It's like, oh, we're doing a oneer now. Oh, I can see the stitching.

Oh, it feels like one long take. It's like the novelty is worn off. But the way they did it here, I was convinced they really just did the longest take possible going through the whole school up until they got outside. I was, I just thought that was really cool the way they did that. The first one, I feel like made me laugh more consistently, whereas this one I was like, huh, and then I would have some good laughs sometimes, you know. I didn't have a bad experience by any means, but it was just like, this is cool.

Like, it's its own thing, but I still prefer the first one. I'm curious as to what people in the chat think regarding, like, the differences. And is this your first look at watching this and what do you think? And have you watched the second one? Like, here's an interesting way. I would be curious to know what people think that's. saw this first and then watch the old one, you know, because I think more folks are probably going to go, you know, I've seen the original as a bit of a throwback and then, and then they

have this to stack on top of it. So I think, I think the, the winner of this entire project is Tina Fey. Yeah. Because this could have easily gone wrong, easily gone wrong, especially now when, when we're in like remake hell. But she breathed a new life into it. You know, it was some great hat tips. Great hat tips for bringing back to Meadows. great hat tip of bringing Lindsay Lohan who I thought probably would have brought more to that particular role she was just eh in it but still but it's still a good

hat tip and then bringing herself back in it as well the great hat tips with the with the with the bus hitting the girl and throwing us off and kind of in the beginning you know that was yeah Tina Fade you did the damn thing and you have continued to prove you know what the hell you're doing I kind of wrote off the dude Aaron as soon as the party happened

when he when he went back with Regina at the party I was just like oh fuck this guy like I'm just because I know what that feels like and it sucks it's like it's such a shitty feeling it's like I I don't have a lot of empathy in my heart for those kinds of things you know what I mean I wanted I wanted Katie to end up with the Indian dude because yeah that dude was funny yeah like he he had his eyes on her from the get go he saw her like as she was just like in her real natural state when she first arrived he's like i'm into you that's the dude you go with you know like he should have i don't know that that kind of annoyed me that they didn't change that he she's still

she still went with that dude yeah er and arrow's just flat too it's just boring it's just i mean he's he's supposed to be just the face and i get it well he's not yeah i guess i just get frustrated because i'm like this guy this girl's destroying himself themselves at him it's like it's come so easy. I had to put it in work. No, Katie, we should go downstairs. It's like, 17-year-old hormonal pre-teenage kids thinking that. Never.

But the times there, they are changing. Maybe, you know. People still be making babies. No, they're not changing that much. He would, there's no way he would say that. If she's like, let's sit down on the bed and he's like, now we should go downstairs, that would never happen. They just wouldn't.

I just don't buy that. I don't buy that at all. And that moment when they're sitting on the bed and she kind of like low-key insults him and he took it so personally and I'm like, I don't know, I put myself in that situation. I'm like,

I don't think I would have reacted the way he did and been so vocal about it because I don't know when a girl's going to talk to me ever. This might be the last girl I ever talked to. That might be it. You know? You know what I mean?

Yeah. But obviously, women keep throwing themselves at him so so he has the privilege to be able to be like i don't like how you treated me i'm leaving well he's like insanely handsome you know handsome people handsome beautiful people get special privileges i guess can we can we finish this off with your story about when you brought a girl to a party oh yeah yeah yeah yeah so i've actually had uh my my lady took before um also my way to a party met somebody who was cool it was a great chemistry sharing each other's uh vibe looking into each other's eyes

I was like there's a party you know you should come check it out come with me she was like yeah bet you know I'm like yes I'm all happy because I'm thinking I'm about to close we get to the party show up my homeboy opens the door was like hey you know welcome to the party we we walk in have a couple of drinks and I'm talking to somebody off to the side and I look look around and I'm like hey man what happened to the girl I brought to the party just almost disappeared gone

it's like 10, 50 minutes or so come down my home boy comes back downstairs and was like yo that girl that you brought

to the party oh yeah yeah they had been hooking up yeah hooking up meanwhile I'm holding the punch

I'm holding the punch I'm holding the punch okay so here's here's how you described it to me I'm gonna give my version of this

okay so I'm gonna I'm gonna name him Chris because we gotta change name's up, right? So, so, so you show up, you show up to the party, to Chris's party, and, uh, he opens the door and immediately his eyes are on her. And you're like, okay.

And whatever, cool. And you're just being chill about it, right? But he, he was already set from the word go from the moment he said hello. And so you're at the party. Like, where is she? You can't find her. And then you're, I forget where you end up like on the roof or something like that. And then he comes out, Chris comes out.

And he's like, yo, where's Jennifer at? And he's like, oh, yeah, she was just giving me a head. I tried to give the PG version. But I distinctly remember, like, your follow-up to that. You're like, you're like, you know, it was, I couldn't be mad. You're like, it was this feeling of like, you ever see Kobe do a layup? You ever see Kobe dunk? it was kind of like that

like the game was just so good I couldn't even be hurt it was nasty with it yeah yeah yeah oh to be young yeah yeah

yeah yeah that's why I wrote I wrote off dude Aaron fucking Aaron she's I heard he kick these rocks fuck that dude

It just made me... I was triggered. I was so triggered. I see, like, old girl, when she was like... She was on a treadmill when she found out about the... Yeah, y'all, the snapping is real. The snap, it is real. Anyway, I thought this was a very good update.

And like you said, we got like tons of remakes and sequels and stuff like that. And for that being part of this family of movies that is a remake, I thought that it was quite compelling, quite strong, like you said. and it was very entertaining my favorite thing about it though is still like the creative elements of it it's the first film I've seen in a long time where I'm like I'm actually okay

with them changing aspect ratios that actually makes sense to me you know it was cool you know so anyway you guys thanks so much for hanging out hopefully enjoy that I'm Jabby Coy this is hey it's your boy Sintel peace out