SummaryAs a small-town girl catapults from underground video sensation to global superstar, she and her three sisters begin a one-in-a-million journey of discovering that some talents are too special to keep hidden.
SummaryAs a small-town girl catapults from underground video sensation to global superstar, she and her three sisters begin a one-in-a-million journey of discovering that some talents are too special to keep hidden.
This movie sure means well, and it’s just entertaining enough to (slightly) slip off the shackles of the great cultural conformity factory it ultimately represents.
The people behind this movie must've been TO LAZY to try make this similar to the 80s cartoon. with all of the lo-res video from Web clips and Google earth constantly showing up I'm surprised I didn't see a Windows movie maker title at the opening of the movie. I give this a four because it's funny at the end they try to set up a sequel. I don't care this was done on a $5 million budget when rebooting an old property to a new generation you should try to get it your all to stay true to the original.
To Chu’s credit, he does work hard not only to legitimize 30-somethings’ halcyon recollections, but also to make the material relevant to a new generation.
Jem has less in common with its neon-drenched ‘80s source material than with the real-life Internet-to-red-carpet trajectory of Justin Bieber — a similarly generic teen idol with moves dully modeled on superior artistic predecessors.
There are a few sweet moments early in Jem and the Holograms.... But then the movie’s lumbering, overstuffed, unfocused plot shows up, and whatever high hopes we might have had for this latest exploitation of 1980s nostalgia are slowly ground away.
Its one saving grace is that Chu’s direction is so wildly inconsistent that it manages to produce a handful of genuinely gorgeous images alongside all of the cruddy ones.
If any questions are asked from viewers confused as to why this movie is such a negativity bomb, watch Nostalgia Critics review for this abominable garbage heap. It's bad, and he describes it in the best way I've heard so far. Not to mention this movie asked fans of the original Jem why they liked the series, and they copy pasted their answers into the end of the movie to make it look like they were talking about this **** movie, and not the animated series. The people who made this movie are truly malicious and lowdown.
This box office bomb --- it made $2,255,211 worldwide against a $5 million budget --- is not as good as you wanted it to be as from the series that adopted this movie.
This is a bad movie. The acting is bad. The story is bad. The production is bad. It is corny and trite. I normally enjoy movies made from cartoons. This was not one of them This is only for 11-15 year old girls who don't know any better, Blech.