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Summary: Probably the funniest movie of 2001!!!
Review: When I heard there was going to be a "Josie and the Pussycats" movie, I first though "oh, no! NOT ANOTHER HANNA-BARBERA CARTOON ADAPTED TO SCREEN (The flintstones)!!!" but when I saw it with my friends on the first night of Spring Break, I was laughing the whole time out. Here's the basic story: Josie (played by Rachel Lee Cook) is the leader of the band "The Pussycats" who her friends Mel (Tara Reid) and Val (Rosario Dawson) are also in. But so far, there lousy manager and his annoying sister aren't doing anything to raise their music career. Meanwhile, a major pop music Manager, Whyle (played by Broadway fame, Alan Cumming) just dumped a big pop boy band because they found out they had sublimital messages in there lyrics. He then finds Josie and her pussycats, and signs them to Mega Records, who the owner, named Fiona (Parker Posey) was a High school loser becoming the world's most popular. The team is then truned on each other when the messages in "their" songs brainwash Josie. The three then must fight back against the evil corporation.JATPC is an a hilarious mock of teen pop culture that everyone knows about (The boybands that are fake, pop artists that don't sing and, of course, Sublimital messages in song lyrics). Athough the actors don't really sing (what, you really thought they did?) they are great in the movie, espically Tara Reid, wom her charecter Mel is either a Dumb Blonde or a loving girl who loves everything. Reid's fiancée, TRL's Carson Daly makes a cameo in the film as, well, himself only controlled by the evil corp. Also, for anyone who lives in Huntington Beach or Orange County, you will root when one of the Charecters says he went to Huntington High School. Plus, the city of Riverdale is where the Pussycats live. Great film for teens that love pop culture or just what a laugh!
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Summary: Uneven, but Amusing
Review: I saw this movie opening day, and it's taken me this long to decide whether or not I liked it. That alone should say a few things. In the end, I don't feel this is really a three star movie, but I enjoyed it a little, so it's not entirely two stars, either. Josie and her friends Melody and Val are in a small band, The Pussycats, and at the beginning of the movie we see that they are lucky just to rent a lane at the bowling alley for their first gig. However, fame soon comes knocking when hotshot manager Cumming decides they would be a great replacement for his missing boy band DuJour. Soon the girls have a number one hit single, but things don't quite seem to be adding up right. "Doesn't anyone think it's strange that all this happened in just a week?" asks an incredulous Josie. This is a movie with the same tongue-in-cheek spunk of the recent "Charlie's Angels," but lacking it's constant enthusiasm and invention. There are times when this movie soars, poking at the rampant teen-oriented marketing, and DuJour (led by none other then Seth Green) is a treat to watch as the all-show boy band. However, there are also times when this bubble-gum movie seems to be taking itself seriously. Shame on them! A movie like this isn't supposed to be about insight, and that is the one thing that seperates it from "CA." At least "Angels" knew its place. The times it attempts to be touching are when we as the audience stop laughing *with* it, and begin to laugh *at* it. However, laughing with or laughing at, I was still laughing, and left the theater with a smile on my face. This is definitely not greatness. But it's not entirely slime, either.
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Summary: Josie was a great movie to see with someone special to you.
Review: Josie and the Pussycats was a very good film. It showed what should important to people... friendship. It's was also very hilarious. It's about a girl band who makes it big and discovers that there are subliminal tracks being put under their music. It's a great flm with a lot of laughs and I think almost everybody will enjoy it. Also to that 12 year old girl from Jamaica. It's "And you wanna know something Mel? puppies, turn into dogs, who grow old...AND DIE!" just making a little correction.
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Summary: ~*~JOSIE AND THE PUSSYCATS~*~ is the best movie ever!
Review: "And guess what, Mel? Puppies grow old, and become dogs. And when dogs get old, they DIE.", Josie said to Melodie, one of her fellow bandmates, from JOSIE AND THE PUSSYCATS the movie. That was one of the parts from Josie And The Pussycats. It was a great movie------I just saw it today!It's a great movie, and i think everyone should see it. It's a great movie, and I loved it. It was entertaining, and the music was GREAT. I also wrote a review for the album, even though I haven't gotten it, cuz i wanna! The music is really good! BUY THIS MOVIE (once you're able to, of course!). Thank you.
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Summary: Not-so-subliminal Message: This Movie Sucks
Review: "Josie & The Pussycats" is a facile, lame-brained "satire" of pop music commercialism that gets crushed by its own bizarre stupidity. Co-writers/co-directors Deborah Kaplan and Harry Elfont overstuffed the script with 1,000,001 random "jokes", slipped in a few bare-bones "plot" details, and ended up with a movie that feels like a horrific, nonsensical drug trip brought on by a dangerous mix of heroin, speed and sugar. For every minor chuckle, there are at least 100 misfired gags, and Parker Posey scores the only real guffaws with her odd, stress-induced lisping. And, just out of curiosity, if "Josie" is so anti-commercialism, then why didn't it just make up sponsors instead of cramming it with real ones, ironically turning itself into the kind of soulless product it was "criticizing"? Who knows? Who cares? Avoid this movie!
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Summary: Long tailes, and ears for hats!
Review: So sue me. I absolutely loved this movie and the music was great (except for Du Jour :) The punkish remake of the cartoon song is just out of this world. This may be mindless fun, but it's fun, and was a pleasure to watch. Good R&R, over-the-top story played toungue in cheek, and the band was cute. What more do you want from a movie based on a cartoon from the 70's.
Rating:
Summary: Probably the funniest movie of 2001!!!
Review: When I heard there was going to be a "Josie and the Pussycats" movie, I first though "oh, no! NOT ANOTHER HANNA-BARBERA CARTOON ADAPTED TO SCREEN (The flintstones)!!!" but when I saw it with my friends on the first night of Spring Break, I was laughing the whole time out. Here's the basic story: Josie (played by Rachel Lee Cook) is the leader of the band "The Pussycats" who her friends Mel (Tara Reid) and Val (Rosario Dawson) are also in. But so far, there lousy manager and his annoying sister aren't doing anything to raise their music career. Meanwhile, a major pop music Manager, Whyle (played by Broadway fame, Alan Cumming) just dumped a big pop boy band because they found out they had sublimital messages in there lyrics. He then finds Josie and her pussycats, and signs them to Mega Records, who the owner, named Fiona (Parker Posey) was a High school loser becoming the world's most popular. The team is then truned on each other when the messages in "their" songs brainwash Josie. The three then must fight back against the evil corporation. JATPC is an a hilarious mock of teen pop culture that everyone knows about (The boybands that are fake, pop artists that don't sing and, of course, Sublimital messages in song lyrics). Athough the actors don't really sing (what, you really thought they did?) they are great in the movie, espically Tara Reid, wom her charecter Mel is either a Dumb Blonde or a loving girl who loves everything. Reid's fiancée, TRL's Carson Daly makes a cameo in the film as, well, himself only controlled by the evil corp. Also, for anyone who lives in Huntington Beach or Orange County, you will root when one of the Charecters says he went to Huntington High School. Plus, the city of Riverdale is where the Pussycats live. Great film for teens that love pop culture or just what a laugh!
Rating: 
Summary: Funny and Quirky
Review: If you want a good escapist movie, this is it. It's silly and funny, without much complicated issues to think about - except that Josey and the Pussycats must save the world from being brainwashed by advertisers. The parody of boy bands is hilarious, and the Pussycats - Rosario Dawson and Tara Reid are cute and sweet. A fan of quirky Parker Posey, I'm not disappointed by her steady performance as an advertising executive bent on brainwashing the world into thinking that orange is the new black. If you have a sense of humor, the silliness in this film will make you laugh. If you are looking for Oscar winning fare, then look elsewhere.
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Summary: Not exactly a masterpiece,but still an entertaining movie
Review: For a movie that's called Josie and the Pussycats, it seems odd that it begins with a boy band. The boy band is called Dujour, and they are surrounded by screaming fans. They arrive at the airport to leave for their next gig, but they find time to perform a song (Backdoor Lover) on the tarmac. We follow them onto their plane. The film is mostly played straight, but massively tongue-in-cheek. There is more product placement than you can imagine - the inside of Dujour's plane is plastered with Target logos, for example.
Dujour is played brilliantly deadpan by actors who don't get full credit in the cast list - only Alex Martin is credited as Les. I recognised Seth Green (as Travis) but not the other two. All seems to be going well for Dujour until they happen to ask their manager Wyatt Frame (Alan Cummings, very sinister in tinted glasses) about a background track on their latest single. He disclaims all knowledge, but immediately leaves the plane with the pilot (in midair, by parachute). On landing, Wyatt makes a phone call: "Looks like we need a new band". He has landed just outside Riverdale, where The Pussycats live. Gosh, what a coincidence!
We meet The Pussycats playing in a bowling alley. The lead singer and guitarist is Josie (Rachel Leigh Cook, with red hair for a change); the bass guitarist is Val (Rosario Dawson); the drummer is Melody (Tara Reid). Wyatt runs into The Pussycats (almost literally) - Paradise by the Dashboard Light is playing, I think it should have been Band on the Run - and signs them to Mega Records.
Perhaps the only real flaw in this movie is the way that it tries so very hard to be arch. (Horrible thought: I wonder if they did that deliberately, given that the characters come from the Archie comics? Nah - that's too subtle for an American film) Most of the time it comes off well, but there are exceptions... Perhaps the weakest part is Fiona (Parker Posey) - the CEO of Mega Records - she tries hard, but fails; maybe another actress could have pulled it off, or maybe they needed a different scriptwriter.
Josie and the Pussycats make a record, and we see it climb the charts - interestingly, we see four top 40 charts, but Josie comments that all this happened in a week (should someone tell them that the top 40 only comes out once a week?). One of the many fun things you can do with your remote is read the names of the other songs on the record charts - this is a movie where freeze-framing and reading the backgrounds is rather fun.
Naturally, this being a teen movie, the teens catch on to what's going on (I'm not going to tell you the whole plot), and you can probably guess the rest...
The best advice I can give you is not to think too hard about the movie, and enjoy it.
Rating:
Summary: this is a great flick - much better than expected
Review: I avoided this movie for a long time, being that it just looked horrible. Then, one boring night it came on cable, and since I had watched everything else already, I gave it a look...And I laughed my arse off! It totally makes fun of the target audience it was made to entertain. I mean, don't go looking for an award winning movie here (not artsy-fartsy), but it's stupid fun and is worth a damn good laugh or two. I'm not big on dumb humor movies, but this has just enough twist (and clever twists) to keep me laughing. I was VERY surprised to have enjoyed this movie as much as I did. Perhaps there IS something to subliminal messages in movies?
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