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| Josie and the Pussycats |
by Ophelia13
"It's about time the real stars of Archie comics got their say."
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In time, all movies will be held to a high standard of intelligence, satire, and just plain good times. They will be tales of hypocritical businessmen and the mindless drones that control the American economy. They will tell of ways to overcome such trash and travesty, and all the world will open its eyes to the wonders of individuality.Someday, this will be reality. Or so I like to think, as I sit listening to passionate musicians with all their indie cred and reading up on all the latest political causes.
I like to imagine that I'm one of the original people of the world, because I have the guts to say that I do know what's going on, and I'm still not going to do anything about it.
Unfortunately, that makes me entirely too much like Josie and The Pussycats, which seems to think that covering Iggy Pop's Wild Child and dressing like a clean cut punk are enough to make it worth everyone's while.
Josie, you see, is a brilliant musician, struggling to make it with her friends in Riverdale, USA. The band is the Pussycats, and the music? Well, the music is supposedly fairly hardcore. Josie (Rachel Leigh Cook), Melody (Tara Reid) and Valerie (Rosario Dawson) spend their time making lovable little neopunk sounds, declaring everlasting friendship, and sneering ever so delicately and the procured music of the hottest Boy Band of the moment.
The boys of that boy band, DuJour (or some other trashy phrase for "talentless") have a song called Backdoor Lover (which aside from all of the Pussy jokes, provided much of the only amusement of this waste of film). But wait! They happen to be on to a devious plot by the Nations biggest record company to make all the world dress alike and talk alike and act alike.
It's dastardly, sure; the Earth would no doubt be taken up by folks like this if we didn't have movies to tell us what was happening.
The movie tries to be too clever for it's own good, attempting satire in a format set up to appeal to the audience of Blue's Clues. It really wants to make fun of the industry and itself, and it tries so very hard to keep the absurdity within its own capabilities. Like so many bad ideas, though, Josie just manages to stab itself with its own hypocritical bias and it's penchant for product placement (there are those that claim the products were there to prove a point, but it was advertising nonetheless).
The idea was not a good one. But it tries, and our heroines really do their best with the material at hand. Reid spends much of her time trying to mug as stupidly as possible, and Dawson has a very Bitch-don't-you-mess-with-me look as they stumble through the movie. It's sort of endearing.As the actors wade through the cardboard sets and try and prove that it's best just to be yourself, the movie's heavy handed pretend metaphor for life proves just one thing--Josie and The Pussycats should have stayed in the 70's, rocking out in outer space.
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originally posted: 04/23/01 01:46:22
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USA
11-Apr-2001 (PG-13)
UK
N/A
Australia
30-Jun-2001
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