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Generally favorable reviews- based on 9 Ratings

Score distribution:
  1. Positive: 5 out of 16
  2. Negative: 7 out of 16
  1. A joyous, hilarious send-up of rock star pretensions and an enchanting celebration of "girl power" in pop culture.
  2. Reviewed by: Craig Marine
    75
    Without much of a plot to speak of and relying almost entirely on the girls' star power and charisma - which they have in spades - turns out to be a truly entertaining movie for anyone with even a bare knowledge of the Spice Girls' history, which in this age of absolute over-saturation, is hard to avoid.
  3. 50
    Although the film is clearly trying to follow in the footsteps of the Beatles' classic, it's several long strides behind, lacking the same sense of originality, spontaneity, high energy, and joi de vivre.
  4. 30
    Bad as it may be, though, the film falls that one precious inch shy of being quite so awful that it achieves cult status; in short, it's just not bad enough to be any good.

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Score distribution:
  1. Positive: 2 out of 4
  2. Mixed: 0 out of 4
  3. Negative: 2 out of 4
  1. JJ
    10
    Good fun & the girls weren't scared of taking the mickey out of themselves.
  2. If you take it for what it is, it is a great movie. It wasn't meant to be a masterpiece and the tongue in cheek script shows that, it was meant to be stupid and they state that multiple times during the film. Expand
  3. JayH
    3
    I wasn't sure what to expect from this film, but didn't care for what I got. Silly fluff, completely pointless and surprisingly boring. If they were trying to capture the spontaneity of A Hard Days Night, they failed miserably. Expand

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