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75
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73
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72
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72
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72
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71
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71
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71
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69
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68
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67
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67
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67
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67
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66
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66
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65
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64
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64
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64
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63
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63
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63
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62
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62
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61
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61
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61
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59
Under the Same Moon
59
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58
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58
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58
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58
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57
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57
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57
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57
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56
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56
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55
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55
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55
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52
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35
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35
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32
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32
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30
Cover
24
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20
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xx
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Josie and the Pussycats
Universal Pictures
MPAA RATING: PG-13 for language and sensuality
Starring
Rachael Leigh Cook,
Tara Reid,
Rosario Dawson,
Parker Posey,
Alan Cumming,
and
Gabriel Mann
In this live-action comedy based on the Archie comic book, Josie (Cook), Melody (Reid) and Val (Dawson) are life-long friends from Riverdale determined to take their band out of the garage and into the stratosphere - while staying true to their own look, style and sound. (Universal Pictures)
| GENRE(S): |
Musical
|
| WRITTEN BY: |
Harry Elfont
Deborah Kaplan
(characters) Richard H. Goldwater, Dan DeCarlo, Dan Decarol
John L. Goldwater
|
| DIRECTED BY: |
Harry Elfont
Deborah Kaplan
|
| RELEASE DATE: |
DVD: August 14, 2001
Video: August 14, 2001
Theatrical: April 11, 2001
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| RUNNING TIME: |
98 minutes, Color |
| ORIGIN: |
USA |

All critic scores are converted to a 100-point scale. If a critic does not indicate a score, we assign a score based on the general impression given by the text of the review. Learn more...
80
Variety
Joe Leydon
Sensationally exuberant, imaginatively crafted and intoxicatingly clever.

75
Baltimore Sun
Chris Kaltenbach
A comic-book rock band starring in a film that actually makes a point? Now that's something worth singing about.
75
Boston Globe
Jay Carr
Mindless glitz-o-ramas don't get any snazzier.
75
Christian Science Monitor
David Sterritt
The action is as perky as the main characters.

70
TV Guide
Frank Lovece
That rare film aimed at teenage girls that's still enjoyable for grownup viewers.

70
Village Voice
Jane Dark
The excellently irrelevant music is played by excellently irrelevant real-life rockers.

70
LA Weekly
Chuck Wilson
A surprisingly smart satire around the bubble-gum band that first found life in the pages of the Archie comic book series.

67
Entertainment Weekly
Owen Gleiberman
The movie's got bounce. Spanked along by a soundtrack that has a surprising punky bite for something aimed at 13-year-olds.

67
Austin Chronicle
Marc Savlov
It's a silly, goofball romp, sure, but this newfangled Josie rocks far harder than her predecessor.

65
Mr. Showbiz
Kevin Maynard
Dippy, funny, and fast-paced enough to be a guilty pleasure.

63
New York Post
Lou Lumenick
More fun than you'd expect from an adaptation of a '60s Hanna-Barbera cartoon that was in turn derived from a comic book.
63
Philadelphia Inquirer
Carrie Rickey
Follows its heroines' rise and wising-up with a giddy, "Hard Day's Night" enthusiasm.
60
Los Angeles Times
Kenneth Turan
Light and frothy though all this is, there is an off-putting element to "Josie," and it's what must be the film's world record number of product placements.

60
Rolling Stone
Peter Travers
Harmless girlie trifle. Or at least it means to be.

60
Slate
David Edelstein
Even if you find the satire in Josie and the Pussycats self-serving, you might still love the movie, buy the soundtrack, and surrender to the hype. That's what happened to me.

50
Salon.com
Stephanie Zacharek
Would be more fun if it were either more shameless or more principled in the bad-girl way, taking a stance on the value of artistry and attitude over commerce.

50
Chicago Tribune
Michael Wilmington
It’s a big, frothy, high-tech, cutesy-poo musical comedy.

50
Seattle Post-Intelligencer
William Arnold
A new millennium version of "A Hard Day's Night" without any wit to balance the silliness.

50
San Francisco Chronicle
Wesley Morris
What should have been 90 zippy minutes of jingling, giggling, winking fakery adds up to only about 20 minutes of fun.

50
Miami Herald
Sara Wildberger
A fair weekend distraction for 10-year-old girls.
50
New York Daily News
Jack Mathews
One long camp joke, with vamped scenes strung together.

40
Washington Post
Michael O'Sullivan
Cumming manages to keep the film's pandering in check with every wicked raised eyebrow.

40
Film.com
Sean Means
Fails as a movie, it works OK as a long-form video.

38
USA Today
Susan Wloszczyna
The concept is so hypocritical, it's like Britney Spears calling Christina Aguilera underdressed and overexposed.

12
Chicago Sun-Times
Roger Ebert
Josie and the Pussycats are not dumber than the Spice Girls, but they're as dumb as the Spice Girls, which is dumb enough.

10
New Times (L.A.)
Robert Wilonsky
An antiadvertisement for itself.

10
Washington Post
Rita Kempley
The fat cats of Hollywood have coughed up a hairball.

10
The New York Times
A.O. Scott
Few people other than future airline passengers should be subjected to such misery.

10
Chicago Reader
Lisa Alspector
The insultingly trendy post-postmodern tale rationalizes its own product placement by using overkill.


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