Horrible, fascist and poorly acted

Absolutely Brilliant!

It's an amazing and heartbreaking story.

The first must-see film of the year.

There are some funny scenes in this movie and I think what people find most impressive is they are bound to see a celebrity they like in this movie because just about everyone famous on TV in the UK in the late 1990s makes an appearance for at least a few seconds. At one point we see Bob Hoskins coming out a phone box and he's supposed to be one of the Spice Girls in disguise.The acting is kind of cheesy and lame. It reminds me of "Kevin and Perry go large", another movie you are in love with as a teenager but when you reach your mid 20s watching it makes you cringe.I don't feel this movie has any importance in this day and age. If you're at the age where you like this kind of movie then you are too young to remember the Spice Girls and if you're at the age you can remember them then you just hate this movie even if you used to like it..It was only produced to generate a sugar rush of cash for the Spice World phenomenon of the late 1990s.

'Spice World' spends 92 minutes going no place fast. Its like a bubblegum wrapper it's colorful and utterly useless. The Spice Girls don't sing very well and in this movie they don't sing very much. But if there singing is bland, their acting . . . well they don't really act they just kind of spout bad puns and giggles a lot. I saw them on a talk show just before I saw this movie and I swear it took me almost the entire hour to figure out which one was which.Apparently an homage to 'A Hard Day's Night', 'Spice World' shows us a day in the life of The Spice Girls, a flash-in-the-pan British singing group that have no discernible talent. Their merchandise line includes albums, dolls, T-shirts, coloring books, mousepads, posters, stickers, mugs, bookbags, lunchboxes and on top of the pile 'Spice World'. It is as useless as those items and can be passed over just as quickly.They are cheerful, positive, wear each other's clothes, sleep in the same bus, urinate together and have the moniker 'Girl Power' without ever stopping (at least in this movie) to tell us what that means exactly. They don't have time because the movie is more interested in dumb skits, idiotic sight gags, wasted supporting players (Richard E. Grant, Bob Hoskins, Roger Moore) and their pregnant friend who goes into labor for reason I have yet to figure out.'A Hard Day's Night' worked because the Beatles were so much fun to watch together. George, Paul, John and Ringo had individual personalities and when we weren't watching them having fun together we got to hear some of the greatest rock and roll songs ever written. The Spice Girls are so lacking in personality that I swear after 30 minutes, the screenplay desperately tries to find something for them to do.I didn't know much about The Spice Girls before this movie, and when it was over I still had not idea why they were so popular. I just recently learned that Geri Halliwell dropped out of the group and became the U.N. Goodwill Ambassador. She apparently decided that there was only so much that one could do with platform boots and a plunging neckline. Now that's girl power.

Spice World (1997) 1/2 (out of 4) This here is pretty much a variation on A HARD DAY'S NIGHT but this time instead of John, Paul, George and Ringo we get Baby, Sporty, Ginger, Posh and Scary. Most movies made feature a credit that will read something to the effect of "story by..." but not this one. No, that credit is actually replaced by one that reads "idea by..." and that pretty much tells you everything you need to know. Really? The biggest pop female pop band that the world has ever seen and one that apparently made between $600-$800 million can only come up with a movie based on an idea? I guess it really doesn't matter that SPICE WORLD has been called one of the worst movies ever made because their fans ate it up when it was released and apparently they are still very fond of it. I guess if I was a die-hard fan of the group then I'd enjoy seeing them in anything no matter how bad it actually was. What makes this film so bad is that there really doesn't seem to be any idea of what this movie is supposed to be about. I'm sure it was an attempt to milk the success of the band and that's understandable. I just wish we had actually gotten a backstage look at the lives they were going through or at least gave us some sort of realistic look at the band. Instead we basically just get one long music video where the girls play their music and get to try on many different outfits. Nothing the five girls say are funny. Nothing they say is very interesting. In fact, nothing they do is all that entertaining. The movie actually reaches a level where it becomes painful to sit through it any longer. Heck, the girls can even lip-sync their songs and that well. SPICE WORLD doesn't quite earn a BOMB ranking thanks in large part to the girls being cute and wearing tight clothes but you can look at a magazine for this. The film itself is quite bad and sadly it never reaches a level to where you can just laugh at it.

I love this film so much! I was brought up in the 90s listening to the Spice Girls and I was obsessed with them! I remember a family member bought me this on VHS and I loved it! It was just fun! Clearly it's not the type of movie that's supposed to be taken seriously. It is just supposed to be more of a spoof movie about the Spice Girls! I love the songs, costumes, crazy scenes! I also really enjoyed the cameo appearances from Meatloaf, Elton John and co. It was exciting for my as a child watching this. I love it even now! Brings back great memories! I can't fault it for what it is! It is just a piece of light hearted fun!