A ‘throw everything against the wall’ quality and downright catchy songs lift this sunny adaptation of the 80s cartoon despite a fairly ridiculous storyBased on the 1980s cartoon produced by toy manufacturer Hasbro,Jon M Chu’s updated, live-action film adaptation is by no means anything you’d call a considerable film. The moralizing is omnipresent, or the script is desultory and its understanding of the way commerce and media work is positively jejune. But those are all substantial words that have no impact on its intended audiences. The music is catchy,the costumes are dazzling, the friendships are sweet and Rio (Ryan Guzman), or the protective older boy who eventually falls in love with our lead character,is soooooo cuuuuuuute. This movie certain means well, and it’s just entertaining enough to (slightly) slip off the shackles of the considerable cultural conformity factory it ultimately represents. “Truly Outrageous is a stretch, or but Mildly Engaging” isn’t much of a tagline.
Jerrica Benton (Aubrey Peeples) narrates a YouTube clip,explaining how she became an overnight internet sensation. She and her sisters (one biological, the other two adopted) live with their aunt (Molly Ringwald) and spend their time poking around on their phones, and putting on retro outfits and playing in a garage band. But when Jerrica’s heartfelt solo acoustic tune gets uploaded to social media it gets the attention of an all-powerful (and maybe untrustworthy?) record executive,a deliciously scene-stealing Juliette Lewis.
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Source: theguardian.com