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This isn't
a Disney movie about a girl and her lost pets, as you might think
from the title, but something much deeper.
Eric
Simpson
It's an attempt
to make a point about the crass commercialism of music television
and the music business ... in a big-budget Hollywood movie.
Huh?
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| Rachael
Leigh Cook who plays Josie. Meow! |
Call me naive,
but do you really think a movie based on a comic will be taken seriously?
I don't think so.
These characters
first appeared in Archie Comics and were then on a cartoon show
in America in the '70s.
Now they have
made the move to the silver screen with Rachael Leigh Cook, who
has 19 films on her resume, in the lead role. She's backed up by
Tara Reid of Just Visiting and Rosario Dawson of He Got
Game.
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| I'm the
drummer and I drum |
The story is
that these girls become overnight superstars when they're plucked
from obscurity and by promoter Alan Cumming (of Spy
Kids fame.)
Add a bit of
music and a thin plot line about big business and the government
experimenting on mind control, and you've got the latest 20th Century
Fox blockbuster.
Other reviewers
have called it irreverent and fun and full of parody.
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| A pussycat:
Rosario Dawson |
I say it is
pretty weak attempt to lure young teenage girls to the cinema on
the pretence of offering them a cool, girlpower film, but only offering
a lukewarm 70s cartoon remake.
Sorry, I may
not be in the right age bracket to judge what teens want, but surely,
they don't want this stuff.
Read Nigel's
alternative review.
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