When the first trailer came out, it get me hooked... The rise and fall of a young pop-star, that started with a video that went viral and signed with a major label... Sounded cool...
I wasn't aware that it was inspired or adapted from a 80's cartoon... But it probably wouldn't make any difference... Jem and the Holograms is a miss in many ways...
The beginning with the vlogs were pretty nice... It made sense... Then it pulled the presentation of the characters, which as also fine... And came that moment they start to harmonize together, that sounded silly, but in some way made think that it is pretty cool... They were fighting, out of tune and then they start to harmonize and realize that they are fine together... Sounded silly but I'm not heartless... And then came the trouble with money, with felt so forced, like "Okay, we need put a problem in the point... Oh, I got it! Money problems!"... Unnecessary at some point... Then they decide to make a video-clip in a DIY way... I thought, oh that's how they become a band... Cute... They make a couple of those and voilà they get notorious... But it didn't happened like that... I was OK with it... Jerrica was a shy one, OK... She remember her dad and decide to record a song on her own... Try a dozen times until she realize that Jerrica is an horrible name (with all the respect to all the Jerricas in the world) and becomes Jem... The nosy sister post the video and it goes viral... Uhull!
And it is downhill from here... Until this point it wasn't a bad movie, neither a really good one... It was just OK...
Jem went viral and so and so... My problem is that she posted ONE song and then a major label already wants to sing with her... WHAT THE HELL... And then the head of that label just shows up, IN PERSON, at her door, being a corporative b*tch villain type... WHAT THE HELL!!!
They go to LA, start a going pro montage...They go home, then protagonist has a moment with the young nice looking guy, who is responsible for them... Cliché as hell... But one note... Jem and the girls are like somewhere between 17 and 19... Rio is at least in his late 20's if not in his early 30's... I mean, c'mon that's creepy!
AAAAAAANNNNDDD THEEEEEN... F*ck... I don't even know how to say it... And then the robot starts to work... Jesus H... YEAH...
A discount crossover between R2-D2 and Echo from Earth to Echo, which is an homage to ET... So... Synergy is 4th class rip-off... Or, if you like better, it is just bullsh*t...
Then, just as in Earth to Echo, the kids go around trying to fix the robot... They trespass and are busted by the young guy who they stole... And they run from the police by jumping from the pier... In the middle of the night... In a sea that does not look calm... THEY ARE DEAD!!! Sadly they survive... AND START TO SING UNDERNEATH THE PIER! Oh and he reveals that he is son of his b*tchy boss...
Man... Is hurting writing this...
Lets resume 'cause it doesn't get any better or interesting... They do a show in a legendary house... It is sold out... The power goes off... The money problem forces Jem to accept the offer of going solo... The girls fight over that... She has a minor break... And the girls make up... And because of the robot have to break in the label building and recover the earrings that are in the vault... Elaborate a ridiculous plan, instead of just ask for them to the b*tch, who had no reason to say no to that! Then they discover that Rio's father left the Label to him... So he takes over, fires her mother, Jem makes a speech and the girls play the gig... And the end...
IT HAD SO MUCH Potential... Visually is pretty good... You can see some kind of change in the characters along the way of becoming pop- stars... The clothing and the makeup of the band is nice... The videos as tension builders during some scenes is quite cool... As the vlogs that appear all along the movie...
The characters were simply flat... All of them... And Juliette Lewis character is just too much...
It has a surprisingly "high" metascore... I mean 42? Really? Max Joseph's We Are Your Friends is a way superior movie and has only 46... Kirsten Sheridan's August Rush has only a 38, and it is one of the most brilliant family movies about music ever made...
Jem and The Holograms could be the movie to truly capture the essence of the music scene in the era of the internet... And fails... I'm really disappointed!
I wasn't aware that it was inspired or adapted from a 80's cartoon... But it probably wouldn't make any difference... Jem and the Holograms is a miss in many ways...
The beginning with the vlogs were pretty nice... It made sense... Then it pulled the presentation of the characters, which as also fine... And came that moment they start to harmonize together, that sounded silly, but in some way made think that it is pretty cool... They were fighting, out of tune and then they start to harmonize and realize that they are fine together... Sounded silly but I'm not heartless... And then came the trouble with money, with felt so forced, like "Okay, we need put a problem in the point... Oh, I got it! Money problems!"... Unnecessary at some point... Then they decide to make a video-clip in a DIY way... I thought, oh that's how they become a band... Cute... They make a couple of those and voilà they get notorious... But it didn't happened like that... I was OK with it... Jerrica was a shy one, OK... She remember her dad and decide to record a song on her own... Try a dozen times until she realize that Jerrica is an horrible name (with all the respect to all the Jerricas in the world) and becomes Jem... The nosy sister post the video and it goes viral... Uhull!
And it is downhill from here... Until this point it wasn't a bad movie, neither a really good one... It was just OK...
Jem went viral and so and so... My problem is that she posted ONE song and then a major label already wants to sing with her... WHAT THE HELL... And then the head of that label just shows up, IN PERSON, at her door, being a corporative b*tch villain type... WHAT THE HELL!!!
They go to LA, start a going pro montage...They go home, then protagonist has a moment with the young nice looking guy, who is responsible for them... Cliché as hell... But one note... Jem and the girls are like somewhere between 17 and 19... Rio is at least in his late 20's if not in his early 30's... I mean, c'mon that's creepy!
AAAAAAANNNNDDD THEEEEEN... F*ck... I don't even know how to say it... And then the robot starts to work... Jesus H... YEAH...
A discount crossover between R2-D2 and Echo from Earth to Echo, which is an homage to ET... So... Synergy is 4th class rip-off... Or, if you like better, it is just bullsh*t...
Then, just as in Earth to Echo, the kids go around trying to fix the robot... They trespass and are busted by the young guy who they stole... And they run from the police by jumping from the pier... In the middle of the night... In a sea that does not look calm... THEY ARE DEAD!!! Sadly they survive... AND START TO SING UNDERNEATH THE PIER! Oh and he reveals that he is son of his b*tchy boss...
Man... Is hurting writing this...
Lets resume 'cause it doesn't get any better or interesting... They do a show in a legendary house... It is sold out... The power goes off... The money problem forces Jem to accept the offer of going solo... The girls fight over that... She has a minor break... And the girls make up... And because of the robot have to break in the label building and recover the earrings that are in the vault... Elaborate a ridiculous plan, instead of just ask for them to the b*tch, who had no reason to say no to that! Then they discover that Rio's father left the Label to him... So he takes over, fires her mother, Jem makes a speech and the girls play the gig... And the end...
IT HAD SO MUCH Potential... Visually is pretty good... You can see some kind of change in the characters along the way of becoming pop- stars... The clothing and the makeup of the band is nice... The videos as tension builders during some scenes is quite cool... As the vlogs that appear all along the movie...
The characters were simply flat... All of them... And Juliette Lewis character is just too much...
It has a surprisingly "high" metascore... I mean 42? Really? Max Joseph's We Are Your Friends is a way superior movie and has only 46... Kirsten Sheridan's August Rush has only a 38, and it is one of the most brilliant family movies about music ever made...
Jem and The Holograms could be the movie to truly capture the essence of the music scene in the era of the internet... And fails... I'm really disappointed!