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Spice World (1997)

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Reviews Counted:32

Fresh:9

Rotten:23

Average Rating:4.5/10

Runtime: 1 hr 33 mins

Genre: Musical & Performing Arts

Synopsis: Big-screen shenanigans from the Spice Girls, who cavort harmlessly in backstage vignettes whilst changing costumes, mugging in the kitschy environs of their Union Jack tour bus (piloted by no less... Big-screen shenanigans from the Spice Girls, who cavort harmlessly in backstage vignettes whilst changing costumes, mugging in the kitschy environs of their Union Jack tour bus (piloted by no less significant a personage than Meat Loaf), and evading a bothersome paparazzo. Trashy, guilty fun, littered with celebrity cameos. [More]

Starring: Spice Girls, Richard E. Grant, Claire Rushbrook, Alan Cumming

Starring: Spice Girls, Richard E. Grant, Claire Rushbrook, Alan Cumming, George Wendt, Naoko Mori, Richard O'Brien, Barry Humphries, Mark McKinney, Steve O'Donnell, Devon Anderson, Michael Barrymore, Richard Briers, Simon Chandler, Jools Holland, Elton John, Hugh Laurie, Jennifer Saunders

Director: Bob Spiers

Director: Bob Spiers
Producer: Uri Fruchtmann, Barnaby Thompson
Screenwriter: Kim Fuller

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03/18/04
Dragan Antulov
Dragan Antulov
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the Girls have a winning sense of humor about themselves... To borrow a line from a pop princess of the past, these Girls just want to have fun, and sometimes the good humor they generate is contagious.

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01/01/00
James Sanford
James Sanford
Kalamazoo Gazette

Spice World works because it has the foresight to play with the manufactured-ness of the group, and of the movie itself.

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05/26/06
Jeffrey M. Anderson
Jeffrey M. Anderson
Combustible Celluloid

GENIUS! Of some sort, anyway.

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02/02/03
Luke Y. Thompson
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06/18/02
Peter Stack
Peter Stack
San Francisco Chronicle

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03/06/03
Rob Blackwelder
Rob Blackwelder
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You can almost hear the production meetings

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Shane Burridge
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Ted Prigge
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04/12/02
Globe and Mail
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This movie wasn't so much written as dripped. It's a fine waste of time for nine-year-olds.

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05/19/09
Cole Smithey
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01/01/00
David Keyes
David Keyes
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Kim Fuller's screenplay is a rather desperate, free-for-all affair, fitfully amusing as well as groan-inducing.

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01/01/00
David Noh
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08/30/05
Emanuel Levy
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Anything this cheerfully dumb could not be the product of a healthy mind.

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01/31/05
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