Friday, March 1, 2019

Jem and the Holograms (2015), 5

PG | 1h 58min | Adventure, Drama, Family | 23 October 2015
As a small-town girl catapults from underground video sensation to global superstar, she and her three sisters begin a journey of discovering that some talents are too special to keep hidden.
Director: Jon M. Chu
Stars: Aubrey Peeples, Stefanie Scott, Aurora Perrineau.
Christopher Scott ... choreographer

Watched online, ok print.

15 songs in the Soundtracks.

Although dir. JC has a lot of dance movies in his background, this is nearly a dance-free zone. The full list of Genres: Adventure | Drama | Family | Fantasy | Music | Romance | Sci-Fi.

Apparently this comes from an animated TV show named Jem ('85-8) with IMDb rating 7.6 (2.1k). Perhaps that explains the low rating here: expectations were too high for the audience that watched this one.

It's MUCH too long, and too ordinary when the sci-fi is not onscreen. DULL DULL DULL and 2 full hours of DULL.

AVOID.

Rated 4.1 (6,561)

Universal & more, dir. Chu; 5