rating:
(out of
4 stars)United States; 2001
Directed by Harry Elfont & Deborah Kaplan; produced by Tony DeRosa-Grund, Tracey E. Edmonds, Chuck Grimes, Marc Platt; written by Deborah Kaplan, Harry Elfont
Starring Rachael Leigh Cook, Tara Reid, Rosario Dawson, Alan Cumming, Parker Posey, Paulo Costanzo
Below you will find a temporary review for this film. The real (better, more complete) review will be online very soon.
Some movies have a pretty good idea but they fail to make that idea work.
This movie that starts as a spoof on the whole boyband-world and it succeeds
in a pretty funny way. Unfortunately this start only lasts for five or ten
minutes and then the real story can begin.
The real story still deals with a band, the Pussycats, and still tries to
make fun of some of the things around it. The Pussycats, who become Josie
and the Pussycats after they have been discovered, have three members. The
lead singer Josie (Rachael Leigh Cook), Melody (Tara Reid) and Valerie
(Rosario Dawson). The reason they are famous is not because they are that
good but because complete audiences are manipulated by secret messages in
the music. The messages not only say that you have to like Josie and the
Pussycats but they also contain things about fashion and other stuff where
the high executives of the record company can make money from. Now that I
have said this I realize it is better not to say too much about the story.
It is not the best part of the movie.
There are some good things though. The first part I already mentioned, some
other moments are also pretty funny, Rachael Leigh Cook and Tara Reid are
beautiful, the evil people from the record company have their moments.
Parker Posey and Alan Cumming play those people and although this is not
really their movie they make it theirs. If that is something to be proud of
is for you to decide.
One last thing I have to mention and that are the songs. Although I didn't
like every song, some of them are quite good. They fit perfectly in the
world of boy- and girlbands and that is what is needed in a movie like this.
That some of them are nice for the ear is only a good thing, and in the end
nothing more than my personal opinion.