Warning: Might include low-key spoilers for the movie.

20 years on, and Imply Ladies is again. With a few twists.

No, the brand new musical film will not be a sequel – it doesn’t even really feel like a remake, extra like a revisit to a beloved story.

It’s the following step within the Imply Ladies evolution. The story was impressed by 2002 e book Queen Bees and Wannabes, made into a movie by Tina Fey in 2004, a musical on New York’s Broadway in 2018 and now a musical on display.

And what’s GLAMOUR’s verdict? It’s glorious enjoyable. It’s intelligent, meta and severely self conscious. The script has been upgraded for 2024, with a whole lot of nostalgia combined in with iconic scenes stored from the unique.

Shout out to Busy Phillips, who smashes it as Regina’s “cool mother” and Spider-Man actor Angourie Rice who fills tough sneakers within the function that made a celebrity out of Lindsay Lohan, protagonist Cady Heron.

Listed here are our prime 10 takeaways from the brand new Imply Ladies musical film.

1. The brand new faces taking part in Damian and Janis steal the present

Absolute stars Jaquel Spivey and Auli’i Cravalho play Cady’s finest pals Damian and Janis respectively, and they’re an utter delight. Their performances bookend the film, narrating the beginning and end to the story.

Jaquel is each hilarious and charming in his onscreen debut, and we predict everybody goes to need to be finest pals with Auli’i’s Janis. Her superb efficiency of the musical observe I might Somewhat Be Me rejects concepts of how girls ought to behave and is an anthem of self acceptance. Can we get an amen?

Janis can be fast to level out to Cady how dangerous it’s to play dumb for a man. All of us want that feminist vitality in our lives.