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(PG) starring The Spice Girls: Melaine I
Brown, Emma Bunton Melanie Chisholm, PpR
Geraldine Halliwell and Victoria Adams.
Also starring George Wendt, Claire Rushbrook,
Mark McKinney, Richard O'Brien,
Steven ODonnell and Roger Moore. Di- ;irected
by Bob Speirs.
SYNOPSIS: Pump up your platforms
and fasten your seatbelts because the
Spice Girls (Baby, Ginger, Scary, Sporty
and Posh) have gone from the airways to
the big screen. The film follows theallgirl
British band as they try to overcome
the trials of stardom to make it to their
first live performance at Albert Hall in
London. The Spice Girls signed with Virgin
Rpcords in 1995, and within seven .
days their single "Wannabe" went to No. If
1 on the U.K. charts. They also were ?|L
the first British band whose debut album c "I
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gamecock critic
SARA LAPENHEIM
Okay, I needed an excuse to buy the ticket,
truthfully, I wanted to see the Brits' big screer
but. Scary, Baby, Ginger, Posh and Sporty re
poured their hearts out and tried to act. It isn't t
fault that Stanislavsky wasn't around to give
proper instruction. The girls deserve a little ci
for actually making a pretty funny movie. Some n
orable moments of toilet paper flying all over ai
the thick Liverooolian accents trvine to exnlain v
image is really makes me chuckle. Even if you c]
not to know their names or listen to their music, t
movie actually will surprise you. While the con
for what seemed like 30,000 screaming 13 year
wasn't the highlight of the movie, the British acc
are enough to make you see Spice World anyway.
Beatles invaded America in the same way in the 1!
with their series of films that included A Hard L
Night, Magical Mystery Tour, Help, and the infan
Yellow Submarine. People also said that t
would break up and that their music was pop-mi
The only difference is back then, it wasn't an in
to be happy when you sang your songs.
gamecock critic Nil FREEMAN kk
So tell me what you want, what you really, i
ly want. If you want high culture, cinematic sp
dor, sensitive portrayals of real people and deep m
ing, see Spice World, the cinematic event of the j
"Spice Up Your Life" with a movie so self consci
ly dumb it is cleverly funny? preferably see it
did, at midnight with 20 or so of your ea
amused pals dressed as their favorite or least favi
Spices. Celebrate the wonders of girl power. No s
tling documentary to explore the depth of Geri,
B., Mel C., Victoria and Emma, Spice World is a i
ful romp with Baby, Sporty, Posh, Scary and I
ger/Sexy. As a character in the movie says," Th<
young. They're cute. They're spunky. Let's ma
movie about them." Why are the Spice Girls s<
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mous? It's not their amazing musical talent, they are
sassy, charming, quirky, well-marketed, wear fun
but clothes and are in British tabloids daily. The movie
l de- capitalizes on and pokes fun at all of these aspects,
sally which is what makes it hysterical and enjoyable. Well,
heir that and the kitsch aesthetic. Like the Spice Girls
i the themselves, there are no particularly startling or
edit amazing moments in the film, but the work as a whole
lem- was still riotous fun. The musical director character
id of sums up the movie and the Spice Girls best when he
vhat interrupts a song and says, "That was absolutely perlaim
feet without actually being any good."
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ents It is very difficult to tell what the creators of Spice
The World were thinking. Either they were trying to
960s establish a cult following based on the intentionally
lay's poor quality of their movie, or they sincerely believed
ious a movie about the Spice Girls' misadventures on tour
hey was a worthy project to tackle. Regardless of their
usic. intentions, they failed.
Lsult With four separate plot lines, several cameos from
B-list 80's stars and the Spice Girls in the leading
roles, Spice World is a muddled mess. Sure, the waning
British pop sensations are cheeky and can de++
liver minimally funny one-liners at times. But when
their dominant form of humor is self deprecation,
real- they evoke more pity than true hilarity.
>len- The only redeeming quality of this movie is that
ean- it never claims to be anything other than what it is:
rear, mindless fluff. The fluff, however, is grating, the jokes
ous- are stale, and the story is extremely boring. Even
as I though they may be slightly talented at churning out
sily sugar-coated pop hits and posing for paparazzi, the
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Do not attend Spice World and expect to find
ke a enlightenment. This movie is obnoxious, but that is
o fa- what makes it so great. The first half hour is painful
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The Spice Girls (top, left Sporty, Posh, Scary,
Baby and Ginger) make their screen debut in j(
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ly slow. I have witnesses that can attest to the flick- i;
ering Indiglo on my watch as I tried to pass the time. e
Once you pass this hurdle, however, the next hour 2
and a half is hilarious and cheesy. How can I tell you
that a bad movie is good? We all know there is no way
they could have made a heart-warming story about
five young British women trying to make it in show
business. Instead, each Spice Girl was made by the j
caricature of the identities that have made them
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