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Mean Girls (2024)
A very poor and transparent effort at long term, passive income.
Firstly this is just another cut n shut high school comedy. That's okay if the characters are funny - good actors, jokes and a quick fire script. The format is purely a platform which again is okay by me and we wouldn't have 80% of our favourite movies if this didn't happen.
But this is a bloody musical. A very marmite thing when good and in a theatre. Musicals were around a long time befoer cinema, radio and TV and were the ultimate in entertainment when Gilbert and Sullivan were around.
Of course they started to transfer to cinema and now streamers. They do not transfer well any more. The Zenith was probably Grease. It's been downhillever since but we still see them as pilots to convince investors of the big money needed to get tham in theatres. So viewers become an unwitting focus group that doesn't get paid.
However if they do manage a long run on Broadway or the West End you're looking at serious money. A huge passive income from each theatre in the world that runs it for 5-10 years plus many other residuals. Hence the justifiable risk/reward.
Tina Fey would like some Broadway money too as has every other writer/producer in the business. Her efforts are not good. Or maybe somone cut her in as the writer and it's their fault. This will not succeed. The songs are frothy, generica nd derivative with some harsh auto-tuning in the first 5 minutes.
Sadly there are a couple of talented actors in this who will be tarnished with the proverbial brush.
I wouldn't be surprised if Tina Fey herself is pretending this thing's never happened. Someone however has decided you can't polish a turd but you can roll it in cheap glitter.