‘Mean Girls’ review: New film of the musical is more like a pretty-good time karaoke track

“Mean Girls,” the musical, the movie, works fairly well. I know, I know. Curb your enthusiasm there, bub. But that's how it is. Like “The Color Purple,” another movie musical now in theaters, the movie's performers elevate largely forgettable songs working hard to convince the source material it'd make a terrific song-and-dance vehicle. In the case of “Mean Girls,” die-hard admirers of the clique-bait source material, a generation old now, will get their fairly good time. Tina Fey's 2004 screenplay started from a 2002 nonfiction book, “Queen Bees and Wannabes: Helping Your Daughter Survive Cli…

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