why make it for adult audiences?
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Archived from the IMDb Discussion Forums — Josie and the Pussycats
KristenStewartForever — 13 years ago(January 27, 2013 06:25 AM)
Why would they take such a cute and family-friendly kid's show/comic and make it into an adult film with multiple swear words and sexual references? I mean, I loved the film to pieces. But I don't understand why they'd destroy such a kid's memories with this adult stuff.
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TMC-4 — 12 years ago(July 12, 2013 10:31 PM)
The whole movie seemed to be a victim of poor/misguided marketing:
http://officialfan.proboards.com/thread/476856/good-movies-marketed-ba dly
http://officialfan.proboards.com/post/9816389/quote/476856
Josie and the Pussycats, it was a movie ripping late 90's early 2k's to shreds, and they marketed it directly to the people they made fun of and not to the non-mainstream music fans. Every punk rocker I have known has loved that movie.
http://www.imdb.com/board/10236348/reviews-64
"Josie and the Pussycats" was a great satire of our "mass consumerism" society. Many criticized the massive product placements. I think those people missed the point of the movie. In a good satire, sometimes the humor is missed (ex. I totally missed the humor of "Scream", I still think it is just another slasher flick) because the satirization becomes the object of the satire. The movie was marketed to the 10-13 year-old crowd, but the humor was aimed toward adults. If it wasn't marketed as a "chick flick" for 10-13 year-olds, it might have done better.