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80Sensationally exuberant, imaginatively crafted and intoxicatingly clever.
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75The action is as perky as the main characters.
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75Mindless glitz-o-ramas don't get any snazzier.
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75A comic-book rock band starring in a film that actually makes a point? Now that's something worth singing about.
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70That rare film aimed at teenage girls that's still enjoyable for grownup viewers.
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70A surprisingly smart satire around the bubble-gum band that first found life in the pages of the Archie comic book series.
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The excellently irrelevant music is played by excellently irrelevant real-life rockers.
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67It's a silly, goofball romp, sure, but this newfangled Josie rocks far harder than her predecessor.
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67The movie's got bounce. Spanked along by a soundtrack that has a surprising punky bite for something aimed at 13-year-olds.
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65Dippy, funny, and fast-paced enough to be a guilty pleasure.
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63More fun than you'd expect from an adaptation of a '60s Hanna-Barbera cartoon that was in turn derived from a comic book.
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63Follows its heroines' rise and wising-up with a giddy, "Hard Day's Night" enthusiasm.
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60Harmless girlie trifle. Or at least it means to be.
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60Light 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.
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60Even 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.
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50It’s a big, frothy, high-tech, cutesy-poo musical comedy.
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50A fair weekend distraction for 10-year-old girls.
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50One long camp joke, with vamped scenes strung together.
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50What should have been 90 zippy minutes of jingling, giggling, winking fakery adds up to only about 20 minutes of fun.
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50A new millennium version of "A Hard Day's Night" without any wit to balance the silliness.
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50Would 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.
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40Fails as a movie, it works OK as a long-form video.
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40Cumming manages to keep the film's pandering in check with every wicked raised eyebrow.
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38The concept is so hypocritical, it's like Britney Spears calling Christina Aguilera underdressed and overexposed.
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12Josie and the Pussycats are not dumber than the Spice Girls, but they're as dumb as the Spice Girls, which is dumb enough.
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10Few people other than future airline passengers should be subjected to such misery.
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10The fat cats of Hollywood have coughed up a hairball.
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10An antiadvertisement for itself.
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10The insultingly trendy post-postmodern tale rationalizes its own product placement by using overkill.
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