Hey! Remember Josie and the Pussycats?

[@ivanterrible7362]

This is a brilliamt satire of consumerism. I met Ms. Dawson years after this movie came out. I did the typical "I love your work" spiel and when I told her my favorite movie of hers was this one, she said no one had ever told her that before.

[@MoviesAreRad]

That’s so cool!

[@z0phi3l]

Correct, consumerism, not capitalism, he keeps confusing the point

[@faulty83logic]

Perfect parody of MTV switching from boy bands to punk pop

[@MoviesAreRad]

Exactly!

[@dwainpannell8366]

I never forget this movie. Spin around is one of my favorites. How dare you

[@MoviesAreRad]

Hahaha I’ll take that, but just because you love the movie like I do. I wish more did!

[@patrickriarchy6054]

Rachel Leigh Cook really was all that...

[@CorbCorbin]

…and a bag of chips.

[@ivanterrible7362]

She still is.

[@williamdixon-gk2sk]

@patrickriarchy6054 but she had glasses and a ponytail! Eww gross.

[@dr.christopherdiaz4473]

This is one of those "girl movies" that feels like it was made for guys...like Clueless and Bring it On.

[@MoviesAreRad]

That’s interesting, can you elaborate?

[@originalsusser]

I'll have a go! They are movies a young guy can take his crush to that gets him 3 benefits... lots of hot young girls on screen for him to enjoy, simple storylines that aid interaction with said crush afterwards and cred with crush for having consideration for her in taking her to a movie she would most def enjoy. As opposed to other 'date' movies, like scare the panties off schlockers, (these are great for subsequent dates)... lol or shoot em, blow everything up, violent guy flicks she may or may not like. Well that's my take. These 3 movies amongst others were perfect aids in getting into girls who were into me

[@denimchicken104]

@@originalsusseridk about all that. Forever alone here and I just like the movie. Funny is funny, and yes, hot babes.

[@originalsusser]

@@denimchicken104 It's all good. I liked them too, they tend to have positive themes where good works, interesting characters, they're funny and of course hot babes. Whats not to like 👍

[@CorbCorbin]

What about Sugar & Spice? 😆

[@TastyBeverage]

🤣 Backdoor Lover is actually a great song

[@MoviesAreRad]

😂

[@johnguzman7425]

Freak, Fight, Gasoline, Accident.......The words that best describe the LAST Janes Addiction show that happened the other night in Boston

[@IsiahTomas]

"Perrrrrrrryyyyyyy, nooooooooooo-"

[@originalsusser]

Thems fighten riffs 🎸🎶🤛🤣😂🤣

[@williamdixon-gk2sk]

Being a 15 year old boy when this came out, we watched it for more than just the comedy. Also: Deep impact>Armageddon

[@MoviesAreRad]

Hahahaha I hear that. What do you think makes Deep Impact better?

[@williamdixon-gk2sk]

@deaninreallife I just think it's way more believable, you know in 'Armageddon' the good guys are gonna win, but 'Deep impact' has believable stakes, and honestly, way better acting.

[@MoviesAreRad]

Definitely agree on the acting and that moment when the tidal wave comes is epic.

[@hosswik]

I also agree with Deep Impact being better. I don’t know what it is with Armageddon, but it just never set well with me…. and disaster movies are my 3rd favorite genre.

[@williamdixon-gk2sk]

@hosswik part of it was over-saturation w/ Armageddon. The Aerosmith & Burger King tie-ins were lame, and it was too much. I caught deep impact on cable in hotel room recently. I had forgotten how good it was, even edited for tv.

[@needfoolthings]

Casting Seth Green as a boyband member is a joke great enough on its own to watch a movie.

[@MoviesAreRad]

😂😂😂

[@shawnmcloughlin42]

One of my favorite films of all time. Amazing soundtrack. Everyone kills in their performance. Even Tara Reid, who normally isn't great. But the script is incredible. The music is fantastic. It has Parker Posey in it and no girl has ever personified "cute" better than Rachael Leigh Cook does in this film.

[@MoviesAreRad]

Couldn’t agree more!

[@ravenlight9579]

Kay Hanley vocals on the soundtrack were outstanding!

[@MoviesAreRad]

Sooooo true!!!! She was incredible! What is your favourite one in this?

[@christophersnyder1532]

I have this on DVD, and this is way better than the Jem And The Holograms film, 100%. Take care, and all the best.

[@MikeeHollMartz]

Forgot about it?It’s one of my favorite movies!

[@MoviesAreRad]

Glad to hear it! Got any other movies you feel like everyone forgot but you love?

[@MikeeHollMartz]

@@MoviesAreRad IDK… I’d have to say…. Either “My Science project”, or “Zapped!” But those were movies from, and for a different era.

[@MoviesAreRad]

I’m going got have to look those up! Thanks!!!

[@chrisleebowers]

I feel like this was a really sharp commentary about an age that promptly ended soon afterward. The internet destroyed the "disposable pop culture cycle" Before, everyone was madly obsessed with the shiniest NEW thing, and old stuff would *disappear* and become hard to find. Now everything is archived and the sum total of pop culture is just a couple button pushes away. Calling the boy band "DuJour" is a brilliantly on-the-nose joke - It was true that Boy Bands and other "bubblegum" pop acts would be popular for like ten minutes and then not just be gone, but *forgotten.* Well now the biggest movie in the world features a 40 yr old N-Sync song. Commodified pop culture is totally different now... nobody's really sure how it works (Everyone loves this new Netflix show but it's cancelled because "algorithms") Top 40 radio isn't a thing, actors aren't celebrities anymore, "influencers" are, and new *movies* seem to have less and less influence on the zeitgeist these days.

[@MLustrous]

N-sync didn't exist 40 years ago.

[@JakeKilka]

Okay you had me at Parker Posey, gonna stop here and watch the film first.

[@MoviesAreRad]

Hahaha understandable. Come back and tell me what you thought!

[@catalystcomet]

What'd you think?

[@goldsbyk]

I remember this flick but never watched it before so I did last night. This movie had me rollin'! Definitely going into my "re-watch" list. Thank you for the suggestion!

[@MoviesAreRad]

You are sooo welcome! Come back and let me know what you thought!

[@tallyholightguy5353]

Never thought I would watch a break down of Josie and The Pussycats 👏👏👏 well done I am going to follow this channel

[@MoviesAreRad]

Appreciate that! What’s another before movie you think deserves more respect?

[@michaelvance6125]

Saw it 1st day it came out at the earliest matinee show, probably noon, in a theater that had a 400 person capacity. There was 1 other person in the theater. People had no clue what they were missing. It was great.

[@peterlundberg5082]

Criminally underrated is right. This movie is pure dumb fun without actually being dumb.

[@MoviesAreRad]

That’s a great way to put it! What’s your favorite part?

[@Toothnut_Hamsterfolder]

I appreciate you for making this. Josie was probably my favorite movie from that year. Glad someone else liked it too!

[@MoviesAreRad]

Great minds and all that! What other movies do you find are underrated?

[@Toothnut_Hamsterfolder]

@@MoviesAreRad uhmm, Scott Pilgrim vs?

[@jonathanfairchild833]

He's right. I saw this movie during its theatrical run and liked it. The IP was something remembered by people my age who were in the ballpark of 30 years old at the time. The cartoon aired on Saturday mornings through the 1970s. I believe that the marketing geniuses missed the intended age demographic by a couple of decades.

[@MoviesAreRad]

Exactly!

[@Jamal-bl7yh]

Josie and The Pussycats Was The 2000's Version of It Came From The Desert but In that film's case It was a Video Game movie released on DVD that got no fanfare regardless of being really entertaining and Action Packed but I still love It one of my favorites ever!!!

[@MoviesAreRad]

Cool. I’ll have to look it up!

[@hosswik]

I still watch this movie every year. I have watched every Seth Green movie on release, and this was one of the real bangers.

[@hosswik]

For Zoolander I am still disappointed to this day that they did not use the song Fashion is Danger; by Flight of the Conchords.

[@MoviesAreRad]

So good!!

[@theseanwardshow]

I saw this opening night in the theatre back in the day

[@MoviesAreRad]

Nice!

[@stickynorth]

Josie & The Pussycats and Drop Dead Gorgeous are my favorite cult films from that era. I saw them on opening weekend to a virtually empty theatre but both have gone onto cult status in the DVD and streaming eras...

[@caiusKeys]

Du Jour means family. Thank you Les!

[@MoggieLou]

I took my little sister to see this back in the day and i even tho i was twenty and snobby about it back then, over the years I've developed an abiding fondness for it.

[@MoviesAreRad]

Right? It sticks with ya.

[@kalybnielsen4183]

Laugh every time at the bailout scene and when Lithping Litha says "Whiteath Wally?"

[@MoviesAreRad]

Hahaha when Cumming stops holding in that gut. 😂

[@cpdreyer]

I showed up for this movie for Rachael Leigh Cook but loved this film for being way smarter than I could have dreamed and the soundtrack. Getting Kay Hanley from Letters to Cleo to be the voice of Josie on the songs was inspired. But yeah, it was a textbook case of not targeting the right audience. Such a shame. Still though...in good times and bad we mustn't forget: Dujour means family...and seatbelts...but mostly family.

[@mikebevibevi]

Was working in movie theater and saw this pre release. Loved it then and everyone ive ever met that saw it over the years loved it. "Orange is the new blue", "Dejour means xxxx" are some of the lines to test people.

[@MoviesAreRad]

Dejour means thanks for watching!!

[@ThePorpoisepower]

Saw it in the theater. Bought the DVD. Watch it yearly

[@CipherCutie]

Funny thing is, I always preferred Josie to Zoolander. Glad it's finally getting its dues.

[@MoviesAreRad]

Me too. Do you still like Zoolander?

[@metalgrinch]

I. Freaking. LOVE. This. Movie. Recall seeing it in theaters and came away with a lifelong crush on Rachel Leigh Cook. Just brilliantly done. 👍👍👍😀😀😀

[@MoviesAreRad]

I hear that. What was your favourite part?

[@metalgrinch]

@@MoviesAreRad probably the villains. Parker Posy was hysterical and I loved all her sarcastic wit and lisp. Lol!

[@MoviesAreRad]

Great call. She’s hilarious!

[@Qualimar]

This film was playing in Irish cinemas in September 2001. I saw it on the weekend just before 9/11 and enjoyed it, loved the music and comedy and I'd had a crush on Rachael Leigh Cook since I saw 'She's All That' when I was 17. I probably wouldn't really have ever watched it again except for what happened on that Tuesday. after that I saw the film at least once a week for the rest of September and October, usually being the only person in the cinema. Now I'd often see films more than once but even with my absolute favourite films I wouldn't normally go and see them more than two times in a theatrical run so this isn't normal behavior for me now and it wasn't normal behavior for me at twenty. It wasn't until much later that I realised that watching this movie again - a fun movie sure but not a masterpiece - was how I was coping with what was going on around me. I could for a couple of hours just slip back into a world that had existed only days before where the Twin Towers were still in the New York skyline. I know it's weird getting so attached to such a lightweight movie but wat can I say, I think it helped.

[@MoviesAreRad]

Hey that’s what movies are for - escapism!

[@mattday2656]

I loved this movie, so did a local Oi! band, they wrote a crust punk song about loving Rachel Lee Cook after watching it in the theatre 17 times.

[@MoviesAreRad]

😂

[@keithmpire]

The secret best song is "Shapeshifter", but it hardly featured in the movie.

[@catalystcomet]

Oh no I did not forget that movie existed, I am nearly 35 years old and I still know the lyrics to so many of those songs

[@MoviesAreRad]

Hahaha nice!!!which one was your fave?

[@afacelessname]

I got the soundtrack and dvd the day they came out. One of my favorite films of all time. The fact they made a counter-culture film and then marketed it directly to the culture it was counter too was a hell of choice. DEBs is another movie that feels very lost.

[@MoviesAreRad]

That’s a funny way to put it and accurate too! 😂

[@blairbrown4812]

0:50 We still aren't ready for it! Jem and the Holograms, although rooted in the 80s TV cartoon of my youth, was definitely a Josie and the Pussycats for the internet generation

[@MoviesAreRad]

Never saw it🤦🏻‍♂️ so you’re saying it was good?

[@blairbrown4812]

It was to me, @@MoviesAreRad but I'm so much biased. It's better to say that it's comparable.

[@DocHayes420]

I saw it in the theater, and still have the soundtrack on CD!

[@MoviesAreRad]

Nice!

[@answerman9933]

"You are what your records says you are"

[@Shindai]

I saw this in 2002 when I was 16/17 and really enjoyed it. I don't think I've seen it since but I remember the music kicked ass. I have the novelisation as well that I found in a charity shop ^_^

[@MoviesAreRad]

Oh that’s so cool!

[@eBoard3R]

*Excellent topic again!!* 🤙🏽🤟🏽👌🏽 Surprising how many movies go "missing" when a similar movie comes out so close to it

[@MoviesAreRad]

Thanks I really appreciate that! What’s a movie you think got unfairly forgotten?

[@eBoard3R]

@@MoviesAreRad I'm guilty of forgettin many of them 😭 its not a great movie but its watchable, I think it's White House down, came out the same time as Oympus has fallen, which was far better in my opinion but if I remember right, White House Down was not bad, just not on the same level

[@MoviesAreRad]

I enjoyed it. Very different tone than Olympus. More comedy.

[@JonAdamsTech]

Great vid!

[@MoviesAreRad]

Thanks bro!

[@Jimalcoatl]

With how attractive the three stars were in the movie, marketing this movie to a teen audience, both male and female, would have been possible and it probably would have found an audience that would've appreciated it. I remember going to see it because I was a teenage boy at the time and saw Tara Reid in Maxim magazine and was basically "Hormones say must see movie with hot girl..." and ended up enjoying it a fair bit beyond just the eye candy.

[@nitrousoxide69]

Yeah I assumed it wouldn't be a movie i like, but now I think i missed out on a good time. Thanks for this vid, gonna go watch this movie!

[@MoviesAreRad]

Great!!!! What was the main thing that made you think that? Also come back and tell me what you thought of it!

[@adelaidefinch6197]

Ha ha ha. This is still a movie I love to watch and randomly quote. Also, I have had such a crush on Parker Posey and Alan Cumming. Gorgeous and hilarious. ❤

[@MoviesAreRad]

They are so funny in this one!

[@BadManWithAMadPlan]

In our family, we call it deep impact to Armageddon

[@guywithinterwebs]

Antz is WAY better than A Bugs Life. I will die on this hill

[@MoviesAreRad]

I think there’s lots of folks on that ant hill. Respect.

[@sulrich70]

I found it quite funny, and had daughters of the age that would like this so I saw it quite a few times. Parkey posey was great

[@MoviesAreRad]

Nice! Got any other movies you love but feel like everyone forgot about it?

[@jbelkinsii1968]

If I remember correctly, it’s almost the exact same movie as the Spice Girls movie… with more product placement.

[@markfennell1167]

Everyone should watch this movie It is extremely accurate Showing deep reality everyone must know Marketing it wrong. Yes. They should have focused on the real story of subliminal messages and elites controlling everything. That is what made the story excellent. A movie that must be watched. It is not a teen movie Yet the truth is told through humor. And that makes it easier to show.

[@Showgirlable]

My mistake was buying the DVD and realizing it was “FAMILY VERSION”

[@MoviesAreRad]

Was it toned way down? Didn’t know they made family versions.

[@BrianJNelson]

Zoolander was crap. I remember Josie and it was just a better movie. My family still quotes it frequently. I also remember Volcano as the better movie. Tombstone was better, but Wyatt Earp wasn't bad. Deep Impact was ok, Arrmageddon was also just ok, but The Core was better than those and it just got lost, mostly because people had soured on disaster movies by the time The Core came out.

[@MoviesAreRad]

@@BrianJNelson the Core is an awesome film! Where do you stand on Antz v A Bug’s Life?

[@BrianJNelson]

@@MoviesAreRad 50/50 Bug's Life was better animated, but the story in Antz was more memorable to me.

[@metronome8471]

Josie caused the dreamcast to fail.

[@Roda-Fowa]

Enjoyed the video! But the guy playing Wyatt is (national treasure) Alan Cumming (singular), not CummingS.

[@MoviesAreRad]

Yeah, I realized I said that during editing but it sounded weird when I took the S away. Stick around for more blunders!

[@Themuffenthusiast]

You forgot the matrix and the thirteenth floor. Also, deep impact was more drama than action.

[@MoviesAreRad]

Oh good calls! Any others?

[@equusquaggaquagga536]

Extra trivia: The Towering Inferno was made because 20th Century Fox and Warner Bros were gonna make movies based on two different novels about a burning skyscraper They co-produced the movie instead of competing against each other

[@MoviesAreRad]

Ooooh very interesting!

[@iamthebatmanxiii3574]

I remember this movie for 2 reasons. Rachel Leigh Cook and the Metallica fans beating up the boy band.

[@MoviesAreRad]

Hahaha I just wish we got a deleted scene of them arriving at the concert. 😂

[@iamthebatmanxiii3574]

@@MoviesAreRad with megadeath doing a cameo as metallica fans.

[@MoviesAreRad]

Hahahahahaha that would be EPIC!

[@RobotDowneyJr]

Still have an original movie poster (27x40) in my room

[@MoviesAreRad]

Nice!!!!

[@Brad772006]

I have never seen this movie. Although you make a good endorsement for it. So i will look it up. Thanks!

[@MoviesAreRad]

Awesome Brad! Come back and let me know what you thought!

[@nonsequitor]

6:20 correction: started Linda Hamilton with Brosnan supporting 💪🙌

[@MoviesAreRad]

I hear ya. Almost thought of adding something to that effect but at the end of the day I think Brosnan is the face folks remember from that one.

[@PastorJeremyCollins]

Love this, and I must admit.... I never watched this movie, didnt look like my type of thing. But maybe i was wrong.

[@MoviesAreRad]

Thanks man, and yeah if you like Zoolander then most likely you’ll like this one too. Similar vibes despite the terrible marketing.

[@joeriveracomedy]

The funniest flop I ever saw was Mortdecai. It was too smart for people, much like Holmes & Watson.

[@MoviesAreRad]

I never saw it. Maybe I should. 🧐

[@moonlambo5229]

I want a Big Mac.

[@MoviesAreRad]

The Big Mac is the new Whopper

[@smokymountainangoras]

PRIMO CULT GIRL MOVIE !!!!! 💐💖🌈🦄🌈💖💐

[@82jp]

PARKER POSEY IS IN THIS? Why didn’t you start with that?

[@MoviesAreRad]

My bad. 😂

[@toddboughn5168]

I always thought it was a pretty clever satire.

[@MoviesAreRad]

Right?!? Underrated.

[@Strange_Armour]

This movie was released on the 24th of August 2001. A rising music star by the name of Aaliyah was killed in a plane crash THE VERY NEXT DAY 🤔

[@MoviesAreRad]

Really?!? Crazy!

[@Sparklepony614]

I have a Dujour Means Seatbelts bumper sticker on my car ❤❤❤

[@MoviesAreRad]

That’s incredible?!? Did you make it? 😂

[@DYTangler]

I didn't forget, fun movie.

[@MoviesAreRad]

Glad to hear it!

[@MrJeffcoley1]

Tara Reid when she was still cute before she ruined herself with plastic surgery

[@Makoto03]

'Capitalism bad' (from a movie made to make money) isn't exactly the most deep commentary to begin with. I don't think the film was underrated. Its about as mid as we thought back then.

[@superman9772]

yep... think taylor swift

[@joshleyva2249]

Yeah I loved this movie, music was great & it was hilarious.

[@MoviesAreRad]

Couldn’t agree more. What’s another movie you love that others forget about?

[@joshleyva2249]

@@MoviesAreRad Get Over It is criminally underrated to me. It got lost in the mix of teen comedies of the early 2000's but it's hilarious

[@ThePorpoisepower]

A lot of reviewers seem to have completely missed obvious satire, and chocked the movie up as a cheap/low effort cashin on and old IP rather than engaging their F@#$@ brain. Roger Ebert specifically somehow missed that the product placement everywhere was a joke... He didn't like the music, a very out of touch boomer reaction. And his review has this "I can't be bothered to consider this movie seriously because it's target demographic is teenage girls" attitude to it.

[@michaelahurt]

It's a good angle on the plot similarities but I don't think Zoolander's success had anything to do with Josie's public perception As you said, it was marketed incorrectly and it was ahead if it's time. And it bombed. _Hard_ Zoolander having the same plot 6 months later is completely incidental. (Especially considering the tonal differences between the two films.) Josie had already been buried -- along with RLC's career -- by the time Zoolander came out. That said, they should re-release the movie in 2026. The target audience is now at an age where they can appreciate the humor -- and poke fun at their younger selves. Plus the humor (if not the music) will appeal to modern tweens and teens who are more jaded and sardonic than Y2K millennials were.

[@MoviesAreRad]

I didn’t intend to say that Zoolander was successful because of Josie. Just that Zoolander was successful, while Josie was pushed into pop culture obscurity.

[@TheMusicalElitist]

I watched it, and then forgot about it because it was rubbish.

[@boBsGOODdaze]

I see you poor choice in movies. ~boB

[@buckiemohawk3643]

it was an awful movie and dumb af. I remember watching it and the plot was horrible

[@MoviesAreRad]

Well you’re the first to say so.

[@michaelahurt]

Watched it when? My wife had the same opinion and I made her rewatch it for the first time in some 20 years and she liked it the second time. As Dean said, it was ahead of it's time. No one was doing satires with that amount of meta humor back then. Audiences and critics completely misinterpreted the film. And it didn't help that it was marketed to the wrong audience. It's not for everyone -- it's like if a New Yorker cartoon was a movie -- but if you haven't watched it with a modern lens you should give it another shot.