Mean Girls (2024)
Comedy • 1h 53m
Directors: Arturo Perez Jr. & Samantha Jayne
Cast: Angourie Rice, Reneé Rapp, Auliʻi Cravalho, Jaquel Spivey, Avantika, Bebe Wood, Christopher Briney, Jenna Fischer, Busy Philipps, Tina Fey, Tim Meadows, Lindsay Lohan, Jon Hamm, Ashley Park, Connor Ratliff, Mahi Alam, John El-Jor, Brian Altemus, Megan Thee Stallion, Ben Wang, Alexis Frias, Isabella Bria Lopez, Morgen McKynzie, Veronica S. Taylor, Stephanie Mincone, Gabriella Cila, Jordan Gallimore, Ari Notartomaso, Camille Umoff, Kaylee Kaleinani, Allison Winn, Ben Heineman, Fernell Hogan, Calidore Robinson, Sofia Dobrushin, Grant Harrison Mateo, Amann Iqbal, Nahscha, Gage Roark, Soona Lee-Tolley, Janna Graham, Matilde Heckler, Francesca Castro, Nuri Park, Grace Slear, Izzy Bank, Kayla LaVine, James Jones, Garid Garcia, Jake Schwencke, Ellena Eshraghi, Kelsie Daniels, Elizabeth Witek, Alexandra Witek, Brooke Johnson, Meredith Dunbar, Hank Pekarsky, Sri, Veronica Merrell-Burriss, Vanessa Merrell, Jordi, Énola Bédard, Nia Sioux, Emely Moreno, Jazz Jennings, Pierson Wodzynski, Mars Avila, Alan Chow, Chris Olsen, Bailey B. Angelski, Joshua M. Baer, Caitlin M. Beecham, Samantha R. Borsari, Briannon E. Bowman, Ian A. Boyce, Daniela Cassano, Danielle K. Catalano, Ismael Chino, Gianna M. Cologna, Jason L. DeGroff, Kaylin E. DeGroff, Joshua P. Doody, Christiana J. Doyle, Calysta R. Eachus, Kasey L. Ericson, Timothy S. Fletcher, Orlando A. Galazara, Cameron T. Garde, Sean G. Haight, Ryan J. Horgan, Teresa Kissel, Christopher J. Lucey, Megan A. Macneil, Malachi I. McLean, Colin J. McTernan, Julien F. Miller, Lauren M. Molfetta, Meryem G. Oldro, Connor D. Paul, Victoria G. Russo, Olivia C. Tona, Anthony M. Varbaro, Nico A. Varone, Thomas R. Wilson, Haley Fitzgerald, Jordan Berkman, Jalen Forward, Charlize Glass, Adam Vesperman, Angelina Barbosa, Allison Bedell, Elyssa Cueto, Joanne Daquigan, Keilany Espinal, Kyle Hanagami, Dougal Herr, Megumi Iwama, Will Jewett, Darriel Johnakin, Emily Jo Jordan, Shannon Kelly, Matthew Kubitz, Yashira Maysonet, Andrew Mulet, Francis Bailey Munoz, Malia Murray, Diego Pasillas, Imani Peterson, Annelise Ritacca, Kai Rivera, Daniel Santiago, Hannah Seiden, Oriana Siphanoum, Effie Tutko, Keenan Cooks, Jonathan Zeizel, Jake Schick
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About the film
New student Cady Heron is welcomed into the top of the social food chain by the elite group of popular girls called ‘The Plastics,’ ruled by the conniving queen bee Regina George and her minions Gretchen and Karen. However, when Cady makes the major misstep of falling for Regina’s ex-boyfriend Aaron Samuels, she finds herself prey in Regina’s crosshairs. As Cady sets to take down the group’s apex predator with the help of her outcast friends Janis and Damian, she must learn how to stay true to herself while navigating the most cutthroat jungle of all: high school.
- Alternative Titles
- Mean Girls: The All-New Movie
Paramount 4K Blu-ray Purist choice: Blu-ray
Sources: YouTube (opens in a new tab)
Paramount 4K Blu-ray new improved master with color grading and slight issues. Blu-ray is old master with original color grading
Blu-ray 5.1
The Paramount 4K Blu-ray has a much better new scan that removes the original extremely dated color grading. This is an improvement on one hand but a definite revisionist change on the other. There is the expected grain management and slight HDR issues in addition to encoding quirks from Paramount. It is a giant improvement over the original Blu-ray but the color change and other issues means that the Blu-ray is one to keep for purists to have the as-is original iteration of the film's presentation. Audio wise the film has been remixed into Atmos but it merely seems like a slightly tweaked and frankly tamed version of the original 5.1. Of the two I prefer the Blu-ray 5.1. The original Blu-ray was Dolby TrueHD and the reissue Blu-ray in the four film Blu-ray collection boxset was DTS-HDMA.
DFIC extensive review: https://youtu.be/evsrJOTIjdA?si=wtdWGxZBfhPYTIeW
Director: Tony Scott
The 70mm 6-track mix has a higher bitrate on the Paramount 1998 DVD, but is more limited than on the THX LaserDisc The Paramount 1998 DVD also has open matte versions in fullscreen 1.33:1 and widescreen 2.00:1 instead of the theatrical aspect ratio of 2.39:1, but the 2.00:1 widescreen presentation is non-anamorphic. The THX LaserDisc is available in both fullscreen 1.33:1 and widescreen 2.00:1 variants.
Director: Terrence Malick
Sources: Criterion Forum (opens in a new tab)
Lovely underlying remaster by Criterion and Resillion but encode is sadly low-pass filtered by Pixelogic, and even then, the encode is still less than ideal. Still easily obliterates any prior disc release, but certainly wouldn't hurt to have a UK or German label take a crack at this same master.
Director: Peter Faiman
Australia Cut: Australia Fox DVD
International Cut: Paramount Blu-ray
Encore Cut: Germany Winkler Film 4K Blu-ray, censored but good encoding
Sources: movie-censorship.com (opens in a new tab)
US Paramount 4K Blu-ray, is the International US Cut and not the Encore Cut
Australia Cut: Laserdisc
The film exists in three versions:
- the original Australian cut (~104 minutes at 24fps/~100 minutes at 25fps);
- the American/international version (~98 minutes at 24fps/~94 minutes at 25fps) trimming some exposition in the Outback first half of the film and some shorter extensions of a few seconds in the New York section, altering some of the dialogue – including censoring a "fuck" to "screw" – but featuring one additional dialogue extension not in the Australian version (a comparison of the two cuts can be found at Movie Censorship);
- the Australian Encore Cut (~95 minutes at 24fps/~91 minutes at 25fps) which uses the international version source so it already has those alterations but also removes approximately three minutes consisting of parts of two scenes featuring Mick grabbing the crotch of a cross-dressing prostitute and a later sequence when he does the same thing at a party to a woman with a deep voice (a comparison of the international version and the Encore Cut can be found at Movie Censorship).
3D version: Paramount 3D Blu-ray
Paramount 4K Blu-ray on October 26 2026
Director: Billy Wilder
Sources: slow.pics (opens in a new tab)
Paramount 4K Blu-ray. See caps
HDR/grading: nice, but some blown out
Encoding: inconsistent, smeared motion
DNR: inconsistent, frozen
Old Paramount Blu-ray is arguably a solid alternative choice
Paramount 4K Blu-ray mono
Paramount 4K Blu-ray mono is different version of the Blu-ray mono from the same old 2000 DVD transfer.
The 5.1 remix on the 4K Blu-ray is an appalling remix done by going wild with artificially generated stems from Park Road Post who were given the surviving mono to separate. The experience is jarring and fidelity to original mix in terms of level balance, directionality and impact is nonexistent. Not only does this sound painfully weird, but the Paramount mixers then did whatever they wanted in terms of LFE, sound pans and effect changes.
The original mono mix was not restored and still needs it badly. The 4K master is filled with frozen grain examples coming and going plus some HDR issues in addition to the usual Paramount problems. It is simultaneously better and worse than the Blu-ray master.
Director: Robert Altman
Sources: Criterion Forum (opens in a new tab)
Criterion 4K Blu-ray scheduled for Dec 2026 release
Director: Richard Linklater
Sources: caps-a-holic (opens in a new tab)
More Comedy on Blu-ray
Director: Peter Jackson
Sources: slow.pics (opens in a new tab)
Both will look identical in motion but the Turbine looks marginally better due to a higher bitrate allocation by each cut being given its own disc, whereas Arrow had FiM seamlessly branch the two onto one. However, Arrow has both cuts in Open Matte (on Blu-Ray) and corrected the opening Universal logo's aspect ratio. https://slow.pics/c/McvVcYDG
TV series
Video format: 1080p Blu-ray
Director: Rob Reiner
Arrow 4K Blu-ray releasing December 14 2026
Like many of Capelight's other releases, the 4K Blu-ray is low-passed but still looks good.
30th Anniversary Shout! Factory BD has the original stereo mix
Director: Jacques Tati
Sources: Criterion Forum (opens in a new tab)
StudioCanal 4K Blu-ray (part of Jacques Tati boxset releasing December 2026)
Director: Jacques Tati
Sources: Criterion Forum (opens in a new tab)
StudioCanal 4K Blu-ray (part of Jacques Tati boxset releasing December 2026)
Director: Jacques Tati
Sources: Criterion Forum (opens in a new tab)
StudioCanal 4K Blu-ray (part of Jacques Tati boxset releasing December 2026)
> BFI. New restoration unreleased.
Old R2 DVD 1.0
Sources: Criterion Forum (opens in a new tab)
StudioCanal 4K Blu-ray (part of Jacques Tati boxset releasing December 2026)
Director: Jacques Tati
Sources: Criterion Forum (opens in a new tab) · slow.pics (opens in a new tab)
StudioCanal 4K Blu-ray (part of Jacques Tati boxset releasing December 2026)
2014 StudioCanal Blu-ray
The UHD is slightly cropped in.
Director: Ben Stiller
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