Exit polls show Mean Girls audiences didn’t know it was a musical

Mean Girls toppled Wonka from the top of Australian box office over the weekend, but it seems that at least a quarter of those movie-goers might not have been expecting to have plot exposition sung at them for two straight hours.

For the uninitiated, the 2024 version of Mean Girls is a movie, based on the Broadway production of the original Mean Girls movie. So it’s a movie, based on a musical, based on a movie. A similar logic was used when Capcom released a game based on Street Fighter: The Movie, which was, of course, based on the game.