Mean Girls: New film struggles with ‘muzzled’ humour and ‘awkward’ music, critics say

He added: “On stage, Regina strutted into every scene like a Bond vixen, bathed in a pink glow that made both her beauty and her cruelty seem almost otherworldly. Here, she’s nasty but seldom funny, perhaps reflecting a shift in the culture that now makes it harder to milk comedy out of bullying snark.”