Variety
Will delight the Fab Five's pre-pubescent fans, recall fond memories of the '60s to those who actually lived through them, and be forgotten within six months.
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Spice World
The Spice Girls made a musical comedy. Emma Bunton (Baby Spice), Geri Halliwell (Ginger Spice), Melanie Brown (Scary Spice), Mel C (Sporty Spice) and Victoria Beckham (Posh Spice) - in a nod to the Beatle's A Hard Day's Night - zip around London in preparation of a major concert at London's Royal Albert Hall.
1997Rating: PG, Sexual references93 minsUK
ComedyMusical
- Director:
- Bob Spiers (TV's 'Absolutely Fabulous')
- Writer:
- Kim FullerJamie Curtis
- Cast:
- Melanie BrownEmma BuntonMelanie ChisholmGeri HornerVictoria BeckhamMichael BarrymoreElvis CostelloJason FlemyngStephen FryBob GeldofRichard E. GrantBob HoskinsElton JohnHugh LaurieMeat LoafRoger MooreJennifer SaundersDominic West
Spice World | Awards
Worst Actress winner at the 1999 Razzie Awards (shared amongst all Spice Girls)
Spice World | Reviews
36%67 reviewsRotten Tomatoes® Score
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Time Out
Spiers' pseudo-documentary bubble-and-squeak allows the girls to dress up, dress down, change identities, ride around in a Union Jack bus, rub shoulders with a large cameo cast, and indulge in vacuous banter. Help!
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Roger Ebert
Obviously intended as a ripoff of A Hard Day's Night, which gave the Beatles to the movies. They should have ripped off more -- everything they could get their hands on.
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Los Angeles Times
A movie about four months too late to endure in the pop-culture annals and about four stars too short to be a four-star movie.
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Empire Magazine
Attempting to embellish the Spice Girls with the lightly fantastical-cum-satirical Beatles-movie vibe, Bob Spiers manages only to lamely reiterate that the only phenomena hereabouts is one of packaging.
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