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Description: Genre: Comedy / Theatrical Release: 2001 / Director: Harry Elfont, Deborah Kaplan / Actors: Rachael Leigh Cook, Alan ... more
Josie And The Pussycats (DVD) ... Cumming ... / DVD released 17 December, 2001 at MGM Entertainment / Features of the DVD: Anamorphic, Dubbed, PAL, Widescreen / Shrewdly concocted by codirectors Harry Elfont and Deborah Kaplan, Josie and the Pussycats is a wildly comedic update of the Archie comic book (and early 1970s cartoon show). "Oh my God, I'm a trend pimp!" cries rocker Josie McCoy (Rachel Leigh Cook) when she discovers that she and her best friends Melody (Tara Reid) and Val (Rosario Dawson)--collectively known as the Pussycats--have been recruited in a plot to brainwash America's youth into a frenzy of mindless consumerism. Unbeknown to the Pussycats, subliminal messages in their chart-topping hit "Pretend to Be Nice" are forcing kids to follow the latest prefab trends as if their lives depended on it. Josie's going to be the "Next Big Thing", and to her manager (Alan Cumming) and Megarecords mogul Fiona (Parker Posey), the other Pussycats are expendable baggage in their scheme to dictate the cool quotient of teenagers everywhere. Blatant product placements dominate virtually every colourful scene as Josie and the Pussycats gamely embraces the cultural blight it claims to criticise, but this isn't Hollywood hypocrisy. In this deliriously entertaining assault on pop-cultural flotsam, with its disposable boy-band (aptly named "Du Jour") and cross-product marketing ploys that perpetuate blind conformity among gullible teens, Elfont and Kaplan wilfully bite the hand that feeds them, and they're having loads of fun while advocating independent opinion. Cook and her pals are more honestly sexy than Britney Spears, and they make genuinely catchy music (although Cook's vocals were dubbed). It's pure fluff, but Josie and the Pussycats was conceived in such high spirits that it's hard to imagine how it could be improved. Even the obligatory end-credit outtakes are utterly irresistible. --Jeff Shannon, Amazon.com On the DVD: Some nicely designed and colourful menus lead you to the extras. The obligatory "Behind the Scenes" is a lot more than just an extended promo with footage of the Pussycats learning their instruments and playing them live on stage. Strangely enough though, there's not one mention throughout of the characters' comic book and cartoon origins. There are a few pointless deleted scenes and the usual production notes plus the video for Josie and the Pussycats' single "Three Small Words" (good enough to play on MTV!) and two hilarious music videos from the movie's fictitious boy band DuJour. --Jon Weir

Newest Review: ... executive producer at MegaRecords, Wyatt Frame, is looking for a new pop group to launch. Here he meets Josie and the ... more

 ... Pussycats and without even having hear them play, offers them a record deal. Their rise to stardom is very rushed, they are Josie and the Pussycat advertising all over the city within only a day. What they don't know is that MegaRecords is putting subliminal messages in their music, encouraging teenagers to buy different things, such as 'Coke is the new Pepsi' and 'red is the new orange'. The band begins to fall apart when Wyatt starts to brain wash Josie into thinking she doesn't need the other two members, and they have to ...more

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Premium Review Josie And The Pussycats (DVD): Here kitty, kitty, kitty (1412 words)
by - written on 25/04/03 (Very useful, 157 readings)
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Josie and the pussycats is good to watch with kids because it used to be a cult cartoon by Hannah Barbera, turned into a movie. It's good for parents because there are some "grownup jokes" which parents will find funny and good kids comedy too. *THE PLOT* Wyatt Frame is a high powered business man looking after a pop boy band named Dejour, after Dejour do a quick on-the-tarmac performance for their fans they get on their private plane and fly to Riverdale. During the trip two of the band members get in a fight but Wyatt sorts it out by smacking them on their hands, then another fight ensues quickly followed by Wyatt fixing it again. As he ...  Read the complete review

Javelina
Premium Review This Movie Gets the Litterbox Award (1079 words)
by - written on 07/02/02 (Very useful, 120 readings)
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After all the hype behind this film, I thought I would give it a try when it came out on video. Unfortunately, I did not realize that Josie and the Pussycats was simply a movie full of stupidity and complete mindlessness. The film begins with a mockery (or at least it seemed) of the modern boy-band. A group of four singers, otherwise known as ‘Du Jour’ is shown being idolized by endless crowds of teen girls. Next thing we know, after a bit of bickering between the band members, Du Jour’s Target brand-name ridden airplane is going down in what we believe is an inevitable crash. The band’s manager, Cummings, who is devious and ...  Read the complete review

cswann
Premium Review Josie And The Pussycats (DVD): No I don’t like Pussy (715 words)
by - written on 06/11/02 (Very useful, 71 readings)
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I’ve just watched this movie on video, and I must admit, its reputation preceded it – I’d heard that it was awful. But I tried to watch I with an open mind. The result was, I found myself on the one hand enjoying the in-jokes, but despairing at many other things about it – mainly the acting and the plot. Now, I’d agree that acting and plot are important aspects of any movie. And yet… I still have a soft spot for “Josie and the Pussycats”. This film is bad in the same sense that Zoolander is bad. What Zoolander was to the fashion industry (a bad film portraying the stupidities of the fashion ...  Read the complete review

linzeelou
Premium Review Josie and the Pussycats make it big! (424 words)
by - written on 25/06/09 (Very useful, 29 readings)
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I really thought i was going to hate this film, but i ended up thinking quite the opposite of it. I love it. Its cheesy and silly but thats the attraction of it. Rated a PG, its good for all of the family and will really amuse the kids. Josie and the Pussycats is based on comic book characters of the same name so i think the film got a lot of hype before it came out. The film starts by showing a boy band called Du Jour questioning things about their music and ends up with their plane being crashed on purpose by their manager. I really liked the fact that they made fun of a typical boy band because really, they are quite silly. Josie ...  Read the complete review

Welshlad
Premium Review Josie And The Pussycats (DVD): Stars in the making? (498 words)
by - written on 08/09/01 (Very useful, 43 readings)
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Josie and the Pussycats I came into this film thinking I was going to hate it, and despite many people saying the same as ultimately enjoying this film, unfortunately I was right. Admittedly the word hate is a touch too strong, but this film did very little for me and is not the kind of film I would wish to see again. The film started well, and looked so promising. Indeed, for the first twenty minutes, even the first half hour, I was enthusiastically entertained, and if the film had been able to maintain that level of enjoyment through, I would no doubt have been raving of this film! However, as you may have guessed, it was not able to do so, and ...  Read the complete review

 
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