Reduced to a teen girl empowerment vehicle that trots out every show business cliche about sacrificing your values for stardom, the film is a non-starter that is unlikely to attract the intended target audience. But it's safe to say that it must be miles ahead of this wan, bloated screen version which forgoes the original's sci-fi and thriller aspects. Not being part of the generation that watched the show, I can't vouch for its merits. Shatner and the show's devoted fans would be well advised to steer clear of the final product.
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Instead, it grabs for the YouTube generation by making Jem a heroine for every kid who has ever been fat-shamed, had parents who don't listen, has been anxious about sexual identity and so on. Its biggest sin, though, is to miss the girl-power allure of the cartoon, in which Jerrica, in addition to being a rock star, was also a businesswoman.
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The movie doesn't put enough effort into any of these subplots it seems to be merely tossing ideas into the pot that it thinks might appeal to 9-year-olds.Alonso Duralde, " 'Jem and the Holograms' Review: Musical Cartoon Reboot Is Neither Truly Outrageous Nor Completely Off-Key," The Wrap (22 October 2015).But if you never had much investment in the Holograms, and aren't expecting any singles as great as "Three Small Words" from " Josie and the Pussycats," you may find this bubblegum musical more of a toe-tapper than you might have imagined. If you're a hard-core " Jem" fan who's still mad that Synergy is no longer a super- computer and that the rival band The Misfits are nowhere to be found (stick around after the credits, I'm just saying), you won't be won over by this reimagining of the material.Geoff Berkshire, " 'Jem and the Holograms' Review: '80s," Variety (22 October 2015).Similarities between the live-action and animated "Jem" pretty much begin and end with character names… And yet the film seems inexplicably embarrassed by its roots, instead serving up half-baked and self-consciously contemporary drama that no one in the sure-to-be minimal theatrical audience will remember quite so fondly some 30 years on.Linda Barnard, " Nothing outrageous about dull Jem: review," Toronto Star (22 October 2015).While Jem and the Holograms may strike a chord with its target preteen audience, it certainly doesn't accomplish that with memorable music. Jem has lost her outrageousness and gained a robotic sidekick in an overlong, low-budget big-screen reboot of the 1980s toy-selling cartoon series.lovelyti2002, " Jem and the Holograms movie trailer is Truly F*****g Outrageous! #JemTheMovie RANT," YouTube ().I don't know if that's a word, but we're gonna use that word today, okay?
That trailer had me outraged to the highest level of pissivity.
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