{"id":21142,"date":"2016-06-30T13:35:55","date_gmt":"2016-06-30T17:35:55","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/cinema-crazed.com\/blog\/?p=21142"},"modified":"2016-08-21T08:39:25","modified_gmt":"2016-08-21T12:39:25","slug":"spice-world-and-my-spice-girls-experience","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.cinema-crazed.com\/blog\/2016\/06\/30\/spice-world-and-my-spice-girls-experience\/","title":{"rendered":"\u201cSpice World\u201d and My Spice Girls Experience"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"Spice-World\"<\/a>Has it been twenty years already? Time just flies. I am not afraid to admit to you that once upon a time I was a big Spice Girls fan. What do you expect? I was just going in to my teens, my hormones were firing off at all pistols, and here were five incredibly beautiful and sexy British women singing entertaining and fun pop songs. I was the victim being led by sirens for a few years there.<\/p>\n

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Judge me all you want, but The Spice Girls appealed to me on both ends. I could ogle and salivate over them all the time, while enjoying songs like \u201cWannabe\u201d and \u201cSpice up Your Life.\u201d For a few years there, the Spice Girls were a huge deal. They were a sensation, and just about the representation of everything you\u2019ve ever heard about corporate bands. It\u2019s not a surprise that \u201cJosie and the Pussycats\u201d came out two years later as the Spice Girls were peaking. The producers of the aforementioned movie were smart in devising a fun meta-comedy about three female musicians plucked out of obscurity and turned in to corporate icons used to sell music, and assorted products to the world.<\/p>\n

Not to mention brainwashing the youth in to relinquishing any essence of individuality and rebellion that they had. The Spice Girls at their top were exactly that. They could even be seen playing in the background of \u201cFight Club\u201d shilling Pepsi in their famous \u201cGeneration Next\u201d ad commercial campaign.<\/p>\n

\"generationnext\"<\/a>Whether or not the girls in the band realized it, they were corporate shills, and any idea about \u201cGirl Power\u201d that they promoted in all of their songs and speeches were undermined by the fact that they were pigeonholed with personas that would be used to pander to certain audiences. The girls in the group just weren\u2019t themselves for a long time. If you wanted the tom boys, there was Sporty Spice. If you wanted the red heads, you had Ginger Spice. If you wanted the dainty and more beauty obsessed female audiences, you had Posh Spice.<\/p>\n

The rest pretty much just fills in itself. Like everyone else, I wondered at the time of watching \u201cSpice World\u201d if the girls in the band even knew what the tone of this movie was going to be. Sometimes the movie is a meta-comedy seemingly mocking the Spice Girls, while other times it tries to peg the film as a day in the life of the group in the vein of \u201cA Hard Day\u2019s Night.\u201d The sad fact is the girls didn\u2019t have as much charisma and comic timing as the fab four, and merely being British didn\u2019t automatically make them as funny as the Lads from Liverpool.<\/p>\n

And believe it or not, the Spice Girls can\u2019t act for shit, which makes the experience of \u201cSpice World\u201d so much more tedious. I don\u2019t know if I\u2019d brand \u201cSpice World\u201d one of the worst movies of all time, but it\u2019s certainly a misguided mess that has no idea what to do with the band members. I guess if you\u2019re very, painfully nostalgic for the late nineties, you might enjoy \u201cSpice World\u201d since it strives to be a sensory experience with the group, rather than just a movie.<\/p>\n

\"Spice-World-2\"<\/a>The girls are in every scene, they have a of dialogue, they try their hand at comedy repeatedly no matter how hard they fail at it, and the movie\u2019s entire soundtrack is Spice Girls. There is one scene where they sing along to \u201cMy Boy Lollipop,\u201d but that\u2019s a brief instance. It\u2019s all Spice Girls, all the time for ninety minutes. They\u2019re the spice girls! They\u2019re fun, and funny, and goofy, and there are a ton of montages. There are montages of them singing. There are montages of them in a photo shoot in various costumes.<\/p>\n

There are montages of them in concert. And they are the Spice Girls, which the director has to remind us every minute. One of the many baffling moments include the girls dressing up as each other and mock the others\u2019 gimmick. I\u2019m just not sure what the producers are trying to get across. Not to mention they manage to wrangle in Alan Cumming, and Bob Hoskins for pretty nothing roles.<\/p>\n

For a movie where the Spice Girls go everywhere, and do everything, the movie has literally no narrative, and the individual members of the group say absolutely nothing. Sure there are words coming out of their mouths most times, but they never really say much of anything. In one scene after staying over at a large mansion, their group conversation jumps from being scared to sleep, odd nightmares they\u2019ve had, and why men have such a hard time talking to them about their feelings. This occurs in a matter of minutes. It\u2019s just a lot of palaver and whiter noise, eventually. \u201cSpice World\u201d was about the peak of the Spice Girls popularity, as the group pretty much just faded away in to the background thanks to the surge of boy bands, ironically, and they all just split up and sought out their own projects.<\/p>\n

\"Spice-World-1\"<\/a>Here in America they never made much ripples, but a few of the members were titans even after the Spice Girls train came to a halt, back in the UK. I look back at my Spice Girls fandom with a smile and a mild eye roll. Yes, I watched them when they premiered on SNL, yes I had the cassette of their hit album, and yes I did eventually see \u201cSpice World.\u201d But much like \u201cCool as Ice,\u201d I was bored out of my skull, and it helped me realize I was outgrowing the group as a whole; yes they were all stunningly beautiful women, but underneath there wasn\u2019t much there.<\/p>\n

Unintentional or not, \u201cSpice World\u201d kind of brought that to light.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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