Josie and the Pussycats never had a chance in theaters.I don’t now if it was the fact that it was based on a animated series nobody really liked to begin with or if it was just too smart for the audience it was being marketed to, but the movie seemed to hit theaters on Friday and pretty much fade into oblivion before Monday rolled around.
And that’s too bad. Josie and the Pussycats is sharp, satirical and funny, features some strong comic performances and, believe it or not, has a soundtrack that rises above the fray to be pretty enjoyable on its own.
The film tells the story of a grrl power trio who are paying their dues playing gigs at the local bowling alley. When a popular boy band is killed in a plane ‘accident,’ the girls are signed to a major record deal and put into the marketing machine that will make them famous by stripping away their originality and making them the musical equivalent of white bread.
Rachel Leigh Cook, Rosario Dawson and Tara Reid are perfectly cast as the bubbly band members. Sure, they don’t really play their instruments (Cook’s singing voice was dubbed by the lead singer of the band Letters to Cleo), but neither could the musicians they’re playing. (And they’re twice as animated when they lip-synch to boot.)
The real treats of the show are Alan Cumming as the maniacal manager and Parker Posey as the mad music mogul out to control the world through subliminal messages in pop music. Watching these two pros go toe-to-toe in their scenery-chewing contest is worth it.
Starring Alan Cumming, Parker Posey, Rosario Dawson.
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