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This led to the far superior 29-minute fan film, which will bring a smile to the faces of any fan who grew up with the original series. There’s also a cameo from another ’80s ‘toon, but you’ll have to watch the film to see who that one is, as we don’t want to spoil all the fun.īack in 2015, the folks at Chickbait made a video where the “real” Jem and the Holograms had to sit through the trailer to the Hollywood version, only to come out the other side with a “WTF did we just watch?” look on all their faces. The orphan Starlight Girls are here too, and there are even references to the Stingers, that other rival rock band that came in the later seasons of Jem.

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And what was maybe the most important element missing from the Hollywood version is here in full force: the Holograms’ rival band, the Misfits. You’ve got the holographic AI called Synergy, as well as Jerrica Benton struggling with keeping her dual identity as pop star Jem from her purple-haired boyfriend Rio.

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It’s a sentiment that will undoubtedly be shared by any adults forced to chaperone their kids to this desperately cynical exercise. Truly Outrageous has all the elements from the classic cartoon that were missing from the movie reboot, affectionately parodied. “Shut up, you stupid kids, I’m trying to sleep,” shouts an angry homeless woman. In one scene Jerrica - or Jem, whatever - and her sisters spontaneously break into song in the middle of the night underneath the Santa Monica Pier (don’t ask).

(Note to Fallon: Johnny Carson was cool because he didn’t gush about everything, and he didn’t take easy money to appear in bad movies.) The film features cameo appearances by Dwayne Johnson, Chris Pratt and Jimmy Fallon, all professing to adore Jem.

Director Chu clearly knows something about this, having directed a couple of the Step Up films and not one but two Justin Bieber documentary features. The several concert sequences are equally histrionic, although the generic pop music performed all too realistically reflects the manufactured quality of much of what’s on the charts these days. Geared to today’s youth who don’t believe they exist unless they express their most banal feelings in front of a camera, the film features endless snippets of tweens and teens tearfully testifying about how much Jem and the Holograms mean to them. But in just an instant - well, it seems like eons - she sees the light and with the help of Rio manages to right her wrongs and, yes, become a big music star without having to compromise. To prevent her family from being dispossessed from their home, Jerrica reluctantly signs Erica’s proffered solo artist contract, which just as well could have been delivered by the devil, and drops her sisters from the band. Read More ‘The Witch’ Star Signs With CAA Through plot machinations too tiresome to relate, it becomes an adorable robot named “Synergy” whose role in the story is mainly to make childlike noises. The Audio: In a word - OUTRAGEOUS Jem has been remastered into Dolby Digital 5.1 (the original Dolby Digital Stereo is intact as well) and it sounds incredibly.

Jerrica, now known by her stage name Jem, has brought with her a small mechanical device created by her beloved dead father. True, Jem never strived to be anything other than a vibrant bit of kid-vid entertainment, but DVD shows how completely defeatist that dogma can look onscreen. Showing up at Jerrica’s home with underling in tow, Erica tells her and her sisters to “forget all that dismal mediocrity you grew up in.” She transports them to Los Angeles, puts them up in the company’s lavish mansion, and assigns their care to her hunky son Rio (Ryan Guzman, The Boy Next Door), who assigns them a curfew that they immediately break.

Naturally, it barely takes a day for the video to go viral, attracting the attention of Erica Raymond (Juliette Lewis, enjoyably chewing the scenery), the rapacious CEO of Starlight Music, whose skintight spandex pants and haughty manner immediately establishes her as no good. When Jerrica sings a soulful self-penned ballad in front of her cell phone camera - she claims to hate being filmed, but rarely misses the opportunity - Kimber surreptitiously uploads the performance to YouTube. Aubrey Peeples (ABC’s Nashville) plays the lead role of Jerrica, a sensitive teen who lives with her widowed mother (Molly Ringwald), younger sister Kimber (Stefanie Scott) and foster sisters Aja (Hayley Kyoko) and Shana (Aurora Perrineau) in a nondescript California town.