Mean Girls High School Version has approved changes provided by Tina Fey and is rated PG-13 by MTI Music Theatre International. Due to mature content (sexual innuendo, language and teen partying) this show may not be appropriate for students under 13.
Mean Girls is a 2004 American teen comedy film directed by Mark Waters and written by Tina Fey. It stars Lindsay Lohan, Rachel McAdams, Lacey Chabert, and Amanda Seyfried. The film follows Cady Heron (Lohan), a naïve teenager who transfers to an American high school after years of homeschooling in Africa.
"Mean Girls" was released on April 30, 2004, and has become a much-quoted classic. Most of the characters were juniors in high school and around the ages of 16 or 17.
As a parent, you need to see what the age rating is for any movie out in theaters. Mean Girls is rated PG-13, which means that it is suitable for teenagers.
Appropriate for all ages. Mean Girls JR is presented through special arrangement with Music Theatre International (MTI). All authorized performance materials are also supplied by MTI.
One character is made fun of for being a virgin. 3 characters admit to having sex with one person (before the events of the movie), and say they wish they had remained virgins. One character is shown making out with various guys throughout the movie (sometimes more passionately than others).
The sex-ed teacher is revealed to be committing statutory rape with two students and is shown making out with a teen girl. Gay slurs are used. There's a prank involving a pregnancy test. Cady's home is taken over by partying teens while her parents are out of town.
Mean girl behavior is often relational aggression, or alternative aggression, an indirect but harmful form of social bullying. Unlike physical harm, those who engage in relationship aggression want to make a person look bad to others, to bring them down or take away what the other person has.
“You do have to realize the movie is highly dramatized for entertainment factors, so there's some truth in it, and in other factors, there's not,” Sylvester said. Despite the cafeteria scene being relatable for some people, I feel that stereotypes of Asian people coming from white people are never okay.
The original Mean Girls is surgically sharp in its insightfulness. It gets right to the heart of toxic friendships, power struggles, alienation, the push and pull of female friendships, the heartbreaks and joys and absurdities of all of it.
Singer and actor Reneé Rapp, who just turned 24, stars as a junior named Regina George. Regina, likely 16 or 17 years old, runs North Shore High School with her two minions. The trio is collectively known as the Plastics.
Mean Girls is a musical version of the original, teenage comedy movie made 20 years ago. The film is more risqué than the original and pushes a lot more boundaries, even though this version has been classified 'PG', compared to the original, which was classified 'M'.
As mentioned, the Motion Picture Association assigned a PG-13 rating to the film, citing “sexual material, strong language, and teen drinking.” And while the 2024 update (thankfully!) has scrapped the many instances of slurs used in the original, this one still includes some coarse language that you might not love ...
I love common sense media, but I would ask that they re-review this movie and give all the specifics related to sexual content and change their age rating from PG-13 so parents can make a good informed decision. These are not positive messages to give to young girls or boys.
Parents need to know that Legally Blonde is a tongue-in-cheek comedy starring Reese Witherspoon as aspiring lawyer Elle Woods. While the story revolves around Elle finding empowerment in staying true to herself and her values, it does have some sexual references and stereotyping.
What is the difference between Mean Girls and Mean Girls High School version?
The musical is based on the 2004 film and while the Mean Girls High School Version script contains some revisions from the movie and the original Broadway Musical, it follows the plot of the film faithfully, with much of the original dialogue and scenes included.
features a large, expandable cast, lead and supporting roles for male and female actors, as well as energetic production numbers. The show's sense of humor, as well as its themes of self-empowerment and open-mindedness, make LEGALLY BLONDE JR.
