… Because I sure do. I have recently decided this is one of my favorite films, but I’ve never heard anyone say anything positive about it.
Am I alone in my affection for this goofy flik?
I dunno. I refused to watch it, given Archie Comic’s reprehensible treatment of Dan DeCarlo, the creator of Josie and the Pussycats. (He wanted screen credit for creating them, they refused and fired him after something like 40 years of service. He died soon after)
Fenris
Somehow, I find that rather cathartic. Well, I am widely known as evil …
Uhm . . . moral issues with Archie Comics aside, I did enjoy it. I don’t know if it would stand to repeated watching, but it was fun the first time around.
You know, I really do enjoy it. I watched it at the theatre when it first opened. I’d had major surgery two weeks before, and it was my first trip out of the house. It was hilarious!
And I did buy the DVD, and I do watch it again from time to time. It’s a fun movie.
I’m a 35 year old guy. My wife and I rented the “Josie” DVD when it came out just to see what they did with the film. My view was that
1)it was a relatively amusing film with some clever jokes about the music industry
2)the boy band ‘du jour’ and their song was a parody worthy of “The Simpsons”
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Josie’s songs were good, solid, catchy bubblegum pop
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But in the end the film didn’t need to be called “Josie and the Pussycats.” Aside from the characters names (and the ears), it wasn’t really the TV show as we remembered it. Yes, there was a villain, but just barely. I think the producers would have done better calling the film “Girl Group” then changing almost nothing else but the characters names. The producers could have saved themselves whatever licensing fee they had to pay Hanna-Barbera and (as I said) it would have been easier to market to 10 year old girls (the film’s supposed audience), since they’d be starting from scratch.
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Most telling line: Alexandra’s “I’m only here because I was in the comic.” Yep, that sums it up for a completely unused character.
BTW, the audio commentary on the DVD is worth the rental price alone. It’s an in depth look at (relatively) low-budget/shooting with what you’ve got on a tight schedule filmmaking.
Well, I haven’t seen the movie, and hardly anybody else did, either… but as I recall, the reviews were mostly very favorable. Unlike most big screen adaptations of TV cartoons, “Josie” impressed most critics with its cleverness.
Luckily, KXL, my memories of the cartoon are so vague they blend in wath all the other crappy old Hanna-Barberra tripe, so I didn’t find those faults with the film. I agree with you on all the other points.
Wow, so many positive comments. Heat shields on…
This is a really, really awful film. The product placements, which perhaps were intended as a joke, are unbearable.
Lame and then some. How Rachel Leigh Cook, Tara Reid and Parker Posey got talked into doing this is beyond me. If you haven’t seen it, don’t waste your time. It’s not even funny as “let’s make fun of it” film.
Uh, yeah, they were intended as a joke. And Sesame Street’s Big Bird is, in fact, a big bird.
I didn’t care for the movie myself, for reasons I didn’t expect.
One of my friends likes this movie. It has something to do with Rachel Leigh Cook and lonely nights. I shall say no more…
Y’know, I was thinking about starting a “guilty pleasures” thread, with this flick as one o’ mine. I shouldn’t like it, but I do. In fact, Cervaise’s review/link sums up my only real problem with it:
(capsule summary: ya dropped the ball at the end there, guys.)
But still, I find m’self throwing it in the vcr every once in a while as I sit here catching up on the mail/msg boards/web sites I follow on a semi-regular basis.
Fun: Oh yeah, surprisingly so. And catchy, too. Call Dick Clark.
Deep: Like diving into a pool… at the deep end… and swimming right to the shallow end.
But hell… I like Shock Treatment and the RHPS too, so whaddayawant?
I though it was a really good movie. Well written, well cast, well directed, and well performed.
And Rachael Leigh Cook is pretty easy on the eyes.
The filmmakers were parodying the prevalence of product placements in other movies. To keep from becoming part of what they were satirizing, they didn’t ask for or receive payment for any of the logos they used.
Just my opinion but…I HATED it!.. A lot! I detest it with the burning fury of a thousand flaming suns! 
Ok not THAT much but really I can’t even comprehend how anybody could possibly like it.
I thought it was pretty cute.
I liked it a lot. I found a good amount of the humor very smart, and the satire in the film was wonderfully done. The Du Jur opening scene was GREAT! I admit it was no where NEAR anything resembling the old cartoon, but I didn’t really mind that much. The cartoon was kind of lame. Maybe if they made it like Josie and The Pussy Cats in Space it would have been better? Hmmmm…I smell a sequel!
But no, the music was good, the story was simple, the whole deal with the subliminal messages was done well (“Pink is the new Orange!” after one listen), and yes, the girls were cute. I hate Tara Reid, and this movie didn’t make me like her any better, but luckily she didn’t get much screen time, so that’s cool with me. But it fits in a class of movies with Charlie’s Angels, Dude, Where’s my Car?, and Dirty Work, where it’s nothing but good ol’ fashioned mindless fun. This time around, it just actually had some decent satire to it.
A good popcorn movie, with clever satire. The music was actually pretty decent. This is on my list of Movies I Thought I’d Hate Until I Actually Saw THem.
I liked it. My daughters loved it. We own the DVD and so I’ve seen it WAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAY to many times.
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I put a review on the net at http://www.tc.umn.edu/~rogerb/pussycats.htm
If you loved it, you might want to skip that link.
I loved the movie. And the one thing that I found really cool was that the music you heard when JATPC were playing actually sounded like it was produced by a three piece band. Must music movies make it sound like the band’s got a friggin’ symphony tucked offstage.