Re-Evaluating Bad Movies

Josie and the Pussycats (2001)



One of SnoBorderZero’s spank bank favorites, Josie and the Pussycats finds the trio going up against an evil record label that’s using their music as subliminal messages to make teenagers waste money on junk. The film is a bit on the nose but it’s goofy and fun and has a pretty decent soundtrack. It’s certainly cheaper than spending $20 on Scoob.

Well...my thoughts on this movie are still exactly the same. I can see what Mike Judge is going for here in terms of the commentary he weaves into the comedy, and to that degree, he's successful in getting his point across. The problem, though, is that at the end of the day...this is still a movie with some pretty stupid comedy, which it leans into too much. And that's ironic, because by doubling down on the tone he's going for, Mike Judge makes a lot of the comedy too...well, dumb. Idiocracy definitely has something to say, but the problem is that it recycles the same jokes/humor over and over to say it, and after a certain point, it just becomes one-note and frankly tiresome. The movie isn't without its jokes that land, however, but those are pretty few and far between for me. Terry Crews gets some decent lauhs as The President, but Dax Shepherd is frankly annoying in his role.  Big surprise, right?

I don't know about that, but it was pretty much screwed over by the studio.  Given the bare minimum of screens needed in order to say they fulfilled their contract, but absolutely zero marketing.  It all mainly stemmed from the fact that companies like Starbucks and Costco, who are portrayed poorly in the movie, obviously weren't thrilled about how they looked in it, so Fox just decided to cut their losses.

All I see out there is the 84-minute theatrical cut.

Nah

Highly quotable, deserving of its spot within the comedy pantheon.

Has maybe the only good Justin Long scene in any movie.

Everyone liked it in 2007. Revisionist history?

Whaaaaaaaaaaaat?!

I thought it was an eyesore.

I saw it with friends, liked it in the moment, and had my good opinion of it shattered in the parking lot when my gay friend said it was the "most homoerotic major release in recent memory"

My recolection isn't so much that it was recut so much as it was just buried.  It was in theaters for like a weak, got the contractual minimum of advertising, and then basically went straight to video.  I think they were really concerned about the fact that it used real brands like Wal-Mart and Gatorade.

I liked it a lot at the time... from memory I probably stand by that opinion for the most part, though I may find some of its aesthetics a bit less to my liking.  I kind of had this whole theory that, because it was being narrated by that one guy before a later a battle, a lot of its over the top accesses make a little more sense in so much as its being told by an unreliable narrator and looked at that way it's a bit more interesting.

You say that like it's a bad thing.


History has more than proven me right about that.  People might still debate the merits of Death Proof, but no one gives the slightest fuck about Planet Terror anymore.