emrobs
I'm a Jem kid. I grew up with Jem(yes, I'm still irritated that Jem and Barbie clothes were not interchangeable!). I watched this movie with my 10 year old daughter and we loved it! Take it for what it is and go with it. They took the characters and made them relevant to today.
sundevilemily
When I was a kid, I watched the show Jem sometimes when it was on Boomerang, and when I saw the trailer,I felt really confused about why this adaption is one of the worst adaptions ever in cinema history.And when I learned about before the movie came out, the crew and the director asked people if they wanted to be in the movie and talk about how much the fans love Jem and talk about how she inspired them.But the fans that were in the movie and with the editing of the movie, it made the fans look like they were talking about the new movie and the movie Jem even when the cartoon is shown in the background of one of the fans videos in the movie.And the robot synergy is suppose to look like a A.I robot that is like a super computer, but in the movie, synergy looks like the son of BB-8 and Eve.
Jason Kennedy Luttgens
"Jem and Holograms" is just a bad, freakin move. I can't put it simpler than that.In case you're wondering, I grew up on the Hasbro produced cartoon int he 80's, it was great, cool songs, fun fashion and funky characters, and contrary to popular belief, they did tackle some issues, like drug abuse, post traumatic combat disorder, absentee fathers, love triangles, sexual identity, jealousy, etc. Damn good cartoon. All of this makes the movie such an incredible disappointment!Just on it's own this movie blows chunks, we start of with shaky cam, and we get this again and again. Then we are introduced to Jem, unfortunately Audrey Peeples has the charisma of a limp carrot. Sorry, but that hurts. What follows from director Chu, who apparently never met a scene he didn't like, is boring, boring and well, boring. There's no reason to care about this, the message goes against the very concept of the plot. Synergy, a rather cool holographic babe on the cartoon, is reduced to a cheesy looking 80's style robot from Kenner!! One horrendous scene has Jem and girls harmonizing for Rio, this develops into nothing,but goes on for like 20 minutes!!! Seriously this movie hurt my brain, it literally made me sick, it is the cinematic equivalent off root canal. Didn't anyone ever hear of editing!? 2hrs to tell this story !?!?!? SO much of this movie is WTF, but I did give it 3 or 10. Why u might ask? Juliette Lewis as Erica Raymond nails her character, she's spot on snarky and the only fun character in the flick. Plus there is a entertaining cameo that pops up in the middle of the credits. Alos,well they did get the names right...
discogirl77
First, I grew up watching Jem and had the doll and all. So when his came out I had to see it. I'm so glad I did and now I'm even watching it over and over on HBO. It was heart warming, fun, great music, and showed creative characters that teen girls can look up to. A clean, fun film that doesn't make me question if it's appropriate. This 39 year old loves the film. Great job with casting. Awesome tunes. So creative for today's young people. Good strong teen young ladies that are a great role-model today. Give it a chance and clear your mind if what your night think it should be. It's a good story about a family different from the "normal". Wooot!
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