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Summary: Try this if you are looking for a laugh!
Review: If you are looking for a good laugh, definately buy this. It is smart and funny and you won't be disapointed! This tells the story of josie and her band. In a modern pop world Josie and her friends get to cut a record. They learn that friends are more important than fame. If you are looking for a family film, try the PG version.
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Summary: "And I Could Be Over Here...!"
Review: This was a hilarious yet far fetched look into the music business. Josie McCoy (Rachel Leigh Cook) is down in the dumps because her rock group is "playing in the gutters". Always positive Melody Valentine (Tara Reid) has no clue and well is just a dumb blonde! Valerie Brown (Rosario Dawson) tries to tell Josie that they will make it big but she doesn't listen until...An agent Wyatt Frame (Alan Cumming) who works for MEGA RECORDS is scouting for a new band because the biggest pop group De Jour has just dissapeared off of the face of the Earth. When he sees Josie, Mel and Val he knows that they are going to be the next big thing. The girls are signed right away and are huge stars within a week! All through this process there are some very funny moments that just cracked me up. The girls meet the CEO of MEGA RECORDS Fiona (Parker Posey) and then they know something is up. Just let me tell you Fiona is one Fruit Loop short of a full box...if you know what I mean. This movie is a riot which is mainly due to the supporting characters like Alexander (Paulo Costanzo) and Alexandra (Missi Pyle) Cabot. Everything they do seems to be in an awkward fashon that just makes me laugh! All in all I really enjoyed this movie...it could've been more realistic but other than that is was a great picture!
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Summary: This version is NOT widescreen
Review: Just a note: while this "Edited for Family Version" is the PG cut, it is NOT in widescreen as stated by .... and on the disc itself. It is in fact in "full screen/pan and scan" mode", i.e. the film has been modified to fit your TV screen. A disappointing move by Universal, as I WOULD have preferred the edited version. Interestingly enough, all of the trailers, music videos and clips from the movie (used in the various behind-the-scenes featurettes) are in widescreen. Why they decided to hack the film's aspect ratio is a mystery. While everything else about the disc is great, I can't give it the full five stars because of the non-widescreen format.
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Summary: CUTE!
Review: Josie,Melodie,Val are 3 Sexy and cool musicians who are looking
for stardom. They get their wish, but with an evil twist.
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Summary: Cleverly Disguised â¿¿Cannibal Holocaust Part 2â¿¿
Review: As disgusting and difficult to look at as the original was, this secret sequel actually manages to top it's predecessor in the general vileness department, while furthering its themes of gross media exploitation as both critique and spectacle - and still get a PG-13. Imagine that! Sadly, "Josie" suffers from the absence of Ruggero Deodato's (relatively) sure directorial hand and (relatively) probing conscience in its exploration of the furthest sulphurous depths of the meaning of the word CONSUME. The original "Holocaust" was a subversive, brilliantly effective, notorious-for-a-reason milestone of exploitation filmmaking. Ostensibly a critique of media, its orgy of sadism and atrocity is actually a sustained and vicious attack on anyone base enough to sit through it. The final line of dialogue is, of course (had to be), "I wonder who the REAL cannibals are." We are spared only the image of a giant finger pointing accusingly into the audience. "Pussycats: Cannibal Holocaust 2" continues the daring and morally ambiguous (maybe reprehensible) tradition of actually BEING that which it condemns. The extended torture scenes and animal mutilations are replaced here by copious product placements, in what can only be described as a numbing barrage of corporate logo porn. This is supposed to be a scathing indictment of the consumerist forces that are brainwashing American youth through "entertainment." Somehow, the gruelingly endless mortifications of human and animal flesh of the first "Holocaust" seem wholesome by comparison. "Pussycats," while being thematically similar, just doesn't compare favorably with the most disgusting and offensive movie I've ever seen. Perhaps it's the fact that the original's attempts to induce overwhelming nausea in the viewer are intentional. This is a far less responsible and honest piece of work in that it crassly pretends that the audience is in on the joke - when it knows well enough that it isn't. Normally I have some respect for movies that dare to flaunt their contempt for the audience. This takes some cajones on the part of the filmmakers - if nothing else. "Pussycats" is such an incredibly cheap shot, though, that I would have to classify it as the great exception. Then again, maybe this is the movie that its audience deserves. One that tells the audience to it's face just how stupid it thinks they are, knowing full well that it's audience is actually too stupid to realize that it is the butt of the joke. And it's actually right! Maybe I'm underestimating this movie, after all.
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Summary: Corporate Logos Hide Message, Plus It's Boring
Review: The message of this movie is about corporate takeover of teenage culture, which is a very good message because teenagers need to be aware of it. But the amount of product placement, paid or unpaid, completely ruined the theme.
Another reviewer mentioned that it wasn't hypocritical because the movie's producers weren't paid by the companies represented in the movie, but as I recall "Josie" had plenty of tie-in deals with many of the name brands. Even if it didn't, the movie-makers easily could have made up fake companies so we weren't constantly bombarded with brands. Come on, Starbucks wasn't paying for half the movie to take place in one of their chain stores?
I throught this was going to be a stupid,entertaining piece of fluff, instead it made me depressed because there was supposed to be message but it was lost under corporate logos, about 100 in all. If anything, young children won't even get the message and will just remember the symbols flashed in their faces.
Besides all this, it was a boring movie and two of the Pussycats cannot act at all. Shame on Parker Posey for being in it.
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Summary: The Most Cheesiest Film Ever......!
Review: If this is what one calls "American Youth Culture", then let me say, for crying out loud..."Give Us All A Break"! The movie is nothing but an egotistical trip of a ...girlie rock band, trying to find its way in the typical corporate mainstream. I have to be honest, Hollywood media is so much based today on mainstream ..., that they tend to ignore the actual "American Youth Culture", that today is in fact leading towards the underground "DANCE SCENE". I really had admired movies like "Groove" and "Trainspotting" which truly reflected that particular club culture...which I guess will take years to finally hit the Hollywoood mainstream, which is so much obsessed with reflecting of what's "In" in terms of MTV, and the top 40's....
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Summary: What Can You Expect?
Review: Well, I didn't go into this movie with high expectations, which is udnerstandable considereing the pathetic plot. I left wondering why I'd even wasted my time on this piece of garbage. 'Josie and the Pussycats' resembles the Spice Girls music flick with a similar plot 'Spiceworld'. Both movies are dumb, dim-witted, badly acted, and follow a weak script. It's a shame, Rachel Leigh-Cook, Tara Reid, and Alan Cummings are fantastic actors. They should be embarassed to have appeared in something like this! 'Josie and the Pussycats' is obviously geared towards younger kids, so maybe I wasn't suppposed to like it, but I at leats should have enjoyed SOME of it! My eight year old sister and her friends love this movie, so I recommend it for anyone under the age of nine years. I'm a movie lover, so it's hard for me to truly dislike a movie. Now it's saying something when I say that I hated this movie! The one star is for the great music! Too bad it was wasted on a movie ...[like] this.
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Summary: what a waste of time
Review: Oh, man. The only good thing in this movie was the mock boy-band 'Du Jour' at the start, because it included Seth Green, Breckin Meyer and Donald Adeosun Faison - and they were uncredited parts. OK, so maybe little kids can like this movie (the bright colours! girls in a rock band!) ...but for anyone over the age of 10? The characters had zero personality, the plot was completely predictable, the 'baddies' weren't threatening, it wasn't funny, and the music was terrible. Boring. Four thumbs down.
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Summary: Misunderstood
Review: I never watched the cartoon or read the comic books. That said I thought the movie was a good movie and that too many people are taking the movie too seriously. Its meant to make fun of pop culture and thats why there are so many advertisements. There not telling you to go buy anything. The message is to be yourself and have fun.
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