Mean Girls And What's Making Us Happy

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🗓️ 12 January 2024

⏱️ 27 minutes

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Mean Girls is a film adaptation of the Broadway adaptation of the beloved Lindsay Lohan and Tina Fey comedy. The songs are there, the dances are there, and the nasty, nasty high school drama is there. But does the retelling capture the energy, the style, and the jokes of the original? The new cast includes Reneé Rapp, Auliʻi Cravalho, and Angourie Rice.

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0:17.0	It can feel at times like there's no movie that can't be made into a Broadway musical and no such Broadway musical that can't be made back into a movie
0:29.1	The latest project to get this treatment is Mean Girls, a film adaptation of the beloved
0:36.6	Lindsay Lowen comedy.
0:38.3	The songs are there, the dances are there, and the nasty, nasty high school drama is there,
0:42.4	but does this retelling capture the energy
0:44.8	the style and the jokes of the original I'm Glenn Weldon and I'm Linda Holmes and
0:49.3	today we're talking about mean girls and we are making fetch happen on pop culture happy hour from
0:54.1	NPR. Joining me and Glenn today is Whelan Wong. She's the co-host of NPR's
0:59.4	daily economics podcast The Indicator from Planet Money.
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1:10.0	Also with us is Andrew Limbong.
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