aoifemoni People rating this amazing movie poorly need to get a life. Spice up your life

FlashCallahan As the Spice Girls prepare for what may be their most prestigious concert, everyone in the world wants them. Their manager Clifford and his behind the scenes boss want to control the girls' lives with the sole goal of getting them to the concert in the best shape possible. A documentary crew wants access during the girls' busy schedule. A Hollywood pitch team wants them to star in a movie. The London tabloids want to print whatever they can get their hands on, even if it ruins the girls' careers. Through it all, the girls evaluate their lives and wonder if they've lost sight of what is really important in life.........The ironic thing about this film is that the things that are shown as a 'danger' to them in the film, are the exact same thing that gave these five stars the career and the money they have today.And it's the same people who thought it would be a good idea to release a Spice Girls film, to milk every last penny they could from the girls. And it's a good job they released it when they did, because they had just reached their peak.So the film is nothing more than an excuse for them to sing their hits, and inbetween have some fun little cameos for the older members of the audience. And it's just all over the place.Obviously the group can't act, but they have screen presence, and the story is paper thin, throwing everything in the mix to try and avoid people from spotting the incoherence of the plot.It is rubbish, just like the processed pap that the group released over their two years at the top of their 'game', and paved the way for the loud mouthed teenagers we have strutting the streets being totally abhorrent toward one another and their peers.That's Girl Power.An utterly vile piece of filth that should never be seen by anyone.

The_Film_Cricket 'Spice World' spends 92 minutes going no place fast. Its like a bubblegum wrapper it's colorful and utterly useless. The Spice Girls don't sing very well and in this movie they don't sing very much. But if there singing is bland, their acting . . . well they don't really act they just kind of spout bad puns and giggles a lot. I saw them on a talk show just before I saw this movie and I swear it took me almost the entire hour to figure out which one was which.Apparently an homage to 'A Hard Day's Night', 'Spice World' shows us a day in the life of The Spice Girls, a flash-in-the-pan British singing group that have no discernible talent. Their merchandise line includes albums, dolls, T-shirts, coloring books, mousepads, posters, stickers, mugs, bookbags, lunchboxes and on top of the pile 'Spice World'. It is as useless as those items and can be passed over just as quickly.They are cheerful, positive, wear each other's clothes, sleep in the same bus, urinate together and have the moniker 'Girl Power' without ever stopping (at least in this movie) to tell us what that means exactly. They don't have time because the movie is more interested in dumb skits, idiotic sight gags, wasted supporting players (Richard E. Grant, Bob Hoskins, Roger Moore) and their pregnant friend who goes into labor for reason I have yet to figure out.'A Hard Day's Night' worked because the Beatles were so much fun to watch together. George, Paul, John and Ringo had individual personalities and when we weren't watching them having fun together we got to hear some of the greatest rock and roll songs ever written. The Spice Girls are so lacking in personality that I swear after 30 minutes, the screenplay desperately tries to find something for them to do.I didn't know much about The Spice Girls before this movie, and when it was over I still had not idea why they were so popular. I just recently learned that Geri Halliwell dropped out of the group and became the U.N. Goodwill Ambassador. She apparently decided that there was only so much that one could do with platform boots and a plunging neckline. Now that's girl power.

Stompgal_87 Between the ages of 9 and 11, the Spice Girls were my favourite pop group, which was a legitimate enough reason to see this film. It was the first film I ever saw at the then-new Virgin Cinema (now a Cineworld) in Spytty Park, Newport, South Wales and I have loved it ever since. Within the following year when the video was released, I was in my now-defunct local Woolworth's with my mother and sister and when my mother asked if I wanted her to buy this movie on video, it was an offer I couldn't refuse. I have watched it several times when I was younger but not in recent years because the video is in my bed drawer with the bed drawer side to the wall (like my 'Charlie's Angels' movie DVD) so I decided to rent the DVD after not having seen the film for as long as I could remember. It's as excellent today as it's always been and upon watching this today, I spotted a few things that I hadn't noticed in previous viewings such as Mel B styling Bob Geldof's hair at a party, Jonathan Ross interviewing the girls early in the film and Barry Humphries playing the hot-headed newspaper editor Kevin McMaxford.While this film has lines that are silly and make no sense (such as Clifford's hair-in-plug holes announcement) and a cheap-looking scene of the Spice Bus jumping over the Tower Bridge as the girls rush to their concert, the dialogue is memorable and funny in parts, the cinematography is suitably varied, the editing is straightforward yet effective, the pacing is swift and the acting is just right with the Spice Girls truly allowing their personalities to shine, particularly Emma and Victoria (who smiles a bit more here than people may think). Despite some of the songs having different instrumentations than one would normally hear, the music is a essential asset to this romp and it was a good idea for the Spice Girls to use their second album Spiceworld as the main soundtrack and there were even some delights from their debut album Spice. The incidental music may be rarely used but it included a groovy piece when we first see the girls' pregnant friend Nicola and creepy, tense music when the bald photographer steps out of the toilet for example. Although the Spice Girls are the main stars here, there was fantastic support from Meat Loaf (who references one of his songs before the girls encounter some aliens) as Dennis the Spice Bus driver, Richard E Grant as Clifford, Naoko Mori as Nicola and Claire Rushbrook as Deborah plus more celebrity cameos from the likes of Elton John as himself, Michael Barrymore as Mr Step and Stephen Fry as the judge.Overall, this is an excellent musical comedy that didn't deserve the Razzie it received. 10/10.