Movies - Josie and the Pussycats

Home > Listing Index > Movies > Josie and the Pussycats (film)

	Movies - Josie and the Pussycats

Josie and the Pussycats is a comedy movie released in 2001 by Universal Pictures and Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer. It was directed by Harry Elfont and Deborah Kaplan, and starred Rachael Leigh Cook, Tara Reid, Rosario Dawson, Parker Posey, and Alan Cumming. It is based upon the Archie comic of the same name, which had been adapted into a Saturday morning cartoon by Hanna-Barbera in 1970.

Plot

Wyatt Frame (Cumming) is a record excutive, working for record label MegaRecords. The label pumps out pop bands and, through an arrangement with the United States government, gets teens to buy their records and follow "a new trend every week" by putting subliminal messages under the music. A fill-in-the-blank phrase of the film is "Orange is the new pink" and The U.S. federal government's motive is building a robust economy from "wads" of free cash teens earn from babysitting and minimum wage jobs. When Wyatt's wildly successful band, Du Jour, uncover the subliminal message and, with innocent concern, ask him about it while in their private jet, he parachutes out with the pilot to leave the plane to crash. He lands just outside the town of Riverdale, in which he meets Josie (Leigh Cook), Melody (Reid), and Valerie (Dawson), members of the band 'The Pussycats'. He offers them a record deal, and they are flown off to Hollywood where they are renamed Josie and the Pussycats. All is going well, until Valerie gets angry that the focus of the band is not on them as a whole, but only Josie who somehow does not notice this shift. Melody, too simple or uncaring to notice the attention Josie receives, uses her uncanny behavioral perception and becomes suspicious of Fiona and Wyatt. After an attempt to kill off Valerie and Melody, and to brainwash Josie, the head of MegaRecords, Fiona (Posey) intervenes. In the end Wyatt and Fiona are arrested by the government (their program was to be scrapped soon) for crimes against the youth of America. The subliminal music program is scrapped and the government begins to use movies instead.

Trivia

In line with its theme of subliminal advertising, the inordinate degree of product placement in the movie constitutes a running joke. Almost every scene features a mention or appearance of one or more famous brands, including the likes of Motorola, Starbucks, Pizza Hut, Cartoon Network, and more. None of the advertisement was paid promotion by the represented brands, it was inserted voluntarily by the filmmakers.
Josie and the Pussycats are based in Midvale in the comics, not Riverdale (home town of Archie and the gang) as portrayed in the movie.
Alan M. is actually a big and muscular guy in the comics, yet he appears slimmer in the movie.
The singing voice of Josie was recorded by Kay Hanley.
The film grossed $14,300,000 at the US box office, resulting in a loss.
The MPAA gave Josie and the Pussycats a PG-13 rating, "for language and mild sensuality". Archie Comics was not happy at the rating, and went so far as to post two disclaimers on its website: and (written from the perspective of Josie character Alan M.) . When Universal released the film on video, it, at Archie Comics' request, had a PG-rated "family friendly" edit of the film released alongside the theatrical version. The differences between the two are minor, consisting of dialogue changes (to remove harsher PG-13 level language) and a few double entendres (both in the dialogue and on screen) revolving around the word "pussy".

[ Visit the complete Wikipedia entry for Josie and the Pussycats (film) ]

This page is based on the copyrighted Wikipedia article Josie and the Pussycats (film); it is used under the GNU Free Documentation License. You may redistribute it, verbatim or modified, providing that you comply with the terms of the GFDL.

Movies - Josie and the Pussycats

Plot

Trivia

Searches on eBay

Related searches on eBay