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It looks like just about every cartoon series is being transformed into a film. Some examples include The Flintstones, Scooby Doo and Josie And The Pussycats. Some were good and some were bad.The film is about a boy band named Dujor whose manager named Wally played by Alan Cummingss thinks that the band died in a plane crash and has to find a new band. He stumbles upon a band called The Pussycats that consist of 3 members, Josie played by Rachael Leigh Cook, Valerie play by Rosario Dawson, and Melody played by Tara Reid who are quickly turned famous overnight now calling themselves Josie And The Pussycats. Liitle do they. Know that all of their songs contain subliminal messages that take over the minds of who ever is listening.This was actually not that bad. The good things I Have to say: The 3 main characters are fun to watch, Dujor is also pretty funny, the cameos are put to good use and the story is not that bad. I also like how the movie over does everything and basically makes fun of itself. However Missi Pyle is awful as always, the plot is tired and recycled and the movie is surprisingly raunchy for an adaptation of a children's cartoon. I have not seen the family version but I am pretty sure they cut a lot out. I still say check it out though.Rated PG-13 For Language And Mild Sensuality.1hr 39min/99min.***/****

First off, the acting was quite good. The characters very much resembled their cartoon show characters very well. I'm comparing the movie to the cartoon show since I've never read the comic book. Alan's relationship with Josie was just as awkward as always. His oblivious reactions to Josie's feelings are timeless. I was somewhat disappointed I didn't see the cat mascot, but I imagine that would have required some computer animated cat. The plot is fairly straight forward. An evil record label puts subliminal messages in their music, and when a certain boy band starts asking questions, they "disappear". The boy band is promptly replaced by Josie and the Pussycats. The villains of the story were delightfully cheesy. Fiona has a bad habit of thinking out loud, a problem that's quite contagious among comic book villains, and Wyatt's poor planning is hilarious to watch. Overall, if you're a fan of the comic or the cartoon show, watch it. If not, it'll seem like "just another movie."

About eight years ago, I watched Josie and the Pussycats on DVD, and gees I thought it was so bad, it deserved a two out of ten. I watched the movie last week on FMC, and I finally got it.The synopsis of the movie, a boy group called Du Jour dies in a plane crash. Alan Cumming's character Wyatt Flemming is sent to a small town to find the next band, where he stumbles across Josie and the Pussy Cats. On the surface the Josie and the Pussy Cats are selling CD's. But, Josie and the Pussycats don't realize that there music label has loaded their songs with subliminal messages; which is used to sell a lifestyle.When I watched the movie last week, I totally got it, as the movie parodied the boy/girl bands of the 1990s. We should not forget that the sound of the groups are (heavily) processed. Everything from the dance moves to facial movements are well choreographed. Also, these bands were in the business of selling the latest fads. Groups such as N*Sync, Backstreet Boys, and Spice Girls were selling an assortment of items such i.e. soft drinks. It is amazing that the movie managed to pick up on the little things that sells a manufactured pop group.My favorite scene of of the movie, when Wyatt Flemming stopped his mini van at the traffic lights, then Josie and the Pussycats walked in front of his car; then they paused. Then Meat Loaf's Paradise by the Dashboard Light cued. Whilst the song was playing, Wyatt removes a CD from its cover: then he frames the girls inside of the cover. Behind Josie and the Pussycats, a sign stated, "World's number 1 Band". Wyatt looks towards the camera mounted on the passenger side and he smiles. All those years ago, I did not realized what I missed on. But lucky for me I caught the movie last week, and I enjoyed it. It parodied the manufactured pop groups of the 1990's. For those people who did not get the film, I would recommend that you watch it in another couple of years, and you may have another perspective on the movie.

To make a comedy, is a good way to entertain. But when you put something serious into the comic mix while remaining entertaining, so that's close to perfect.Despite the goofy looks of this movie, the fact that there were no big stars to support it, and even its reputation as a financial flop; it's a very good movie indeed. The comedy was fine, and the performance (including, believe it or not, Tara Reid) was wonderful ! The final hurly-burly wasn't a real hurly-burly as it should be, but it managed to be all good. The most important thing of it was its message about the modern pop culture. That will make it live longer than any shallow teen comedy. And it was totally conspicuous for me to find out that not one but three works aimed at the same issue, in the same time, by almost the same viewpoint !On 25 February 2001 an episode of (The Simpsons) titled (New Kids on the Blecch) was aired, involved Bart and his friends joining a boy band. While watching a video for the Party Posse, Lisa notices the phrase "Yvan Eht Nioj" being repeated continuously by belly-dancers. She plays the video in reverse and finds that it means "Join the Navy". Also, an Uncle Sam "I Want You" poster can be seen in the video frame by frame. The joke was that the United States sends subliminal messages in order to recruit people!Strangely, or not, at the same year, right on 11 April 2001, we got (Josie and the Pussycats), where large secret organization advertises anything some businessmen produce by inserting subliminal messages through low tracks mixed in underneath other louder tracks in innocent girl band's songs to influence the listeners' actions, mainly the teenagers, to just consume very trivial goods. It confirmed so comically that the modern pop culture aims at making us stupid petty creatures with no consciousness and no thinking at all (I loved the way how anyone starts to think has to be kidnapped immediately as the peak of the movie's hilarious paranoia). On 29 June 2001 (Pootie Tang) was released to nearly say the same, but through a spoof of a superstar. Aside from his imbecile mentality and idiot songs, his sexual charisma brings him all : money, fame and companies that want to exploit that to the utmost. As you see, the star became a commodity more than an artist. So it's wholly a game of marketing, not art anymore.Thus, art or media became only a way to affect meanly, or accurately a "cat's-paw" that big parties (the government, the huge corporations, whatever..) manipulate capably to control the ever surrendering recipient, to plunder their consciousness, so their freedom, transforming the whole process into mass hypnosis or ultimate scheme. It's all the way about the blind acceptation, the absence of thinking (or the critical mind) and the insistence of the pop culture to be nothing but dull, trite and vapid.It's great that in simple comedies you find satirical messages as important as this. It is how the pop recovers itself and comes to its senses. And when 3 works in one year say the same, I won't think that their makers turned all into conspiracy theory's freaks ! But rather the term "No smoke without fire" will come to mind, or maybe the word "believable".