By Victoria Luxford Following the release of Mean Girls, another film-based-on-a-musical-based-on-a-film comes to cinemas, this time with more satisfying results. The Color Purple is an adaptation of the 2005 Broadway musical, itself inspired by both the 1985 Steven Spielberg film, and the 1982 Alice Walker novel it was based on. Fantasia Barrino stars as Celie, a woman in an abusive marriage who finds strength through her friendship with gospel singer Shug (Taraji P Henson) and Celie (Danielle Harris). Set in the Southern United States in the 1920s, themes of systemic struggle don’t immediate…