Josie and the Pussycats Movie Review 2001

This Josie and company have almost as many dimensions as the cartoon from whence they came. Simple plot has Josie's band looking for their big break when record company exec Wyatt Frame, looking for a new sound, spots our heroines and remakes them as teen sensations. Wyatt is partnered with Fiona (Posey, chewing scenery like a starving dog in an Alpo factory) in a scheme to use pop music to control the minds of teens. Basically harmless parody of the pop music biz chokes on its own product-placing hypocrisy, but gets by on the obvious charms of leads Cook, Reid, and Dawson.

Distribution

Sony Pictures Home Video, Sony Pictures Plz., 10202 W. Washington Blvd., Culver City, CA 90232, Phone: (310)244-7306, Fax: (310)280-2485, URL: http://www.spe.sony.com, Remarks: Formerly Columbia Tristar Home Entertainment

Available on VHS, DVD
Running time 99 minutes.
Originally from United States.

Cast and Crew

Genres

Adapted from a Cartoon, Rock Flicks, Adapted from Comics, Showbiz Comedies

Screenplay

Deborah Kaplan, Harry Elfont

Cast

Rachael Leigh Cook, Tara Reid, Rosario Dawson, Parker Posey, Alan Cumming, Gabriel Mann, Paulo Costanzo, Tom Butler, Missi Pyle, Carson Daly

Cinematography

Matthew Libatique

Director

Deborah Kaplan, Harry Elfont

Music

John (Gianni) Frizzell

Other

Seth Green, Breckin Meyer, Donald Adeosun Faison, Eric J. Batut, Peter Teschner, Kevin Humenny, Leesa Evans, Jasna Stefanovich

Producer

Marc Platt, Tracey E. Edmonds, Chuck Grimes, Tony DeRosa-Grund, Riverdale, Universal Pictures, Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer Pictures