Odd to watch. I'm so familiar with the original and this plays such lip service to it - repeats catchphrases and so on. Angourie Rice is a better actress than Lohan but not as charismatic. The love interest is a better actor too but it doesn't work his character not being dumb - it makes him mean. I kept thinking Rene Rapp was Sydney McSweeney. Auli'i Cravalho and Jaquel Spivey are gerat. The girls who play Amanda Seyfried and Lacy Chabert aren't as good.
I like how Tina Fey's character hooked up with Tim Meadows but feel the film would've been better with new actors playing these roles. The film is stronger going its own way - the musical numbers are done with imagination. I get why they did what they did.
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