While boy-centric properties like Transformers, Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles, and G.I. Because you know how much I love LEGO Friends.
#JEM AND THE HOLOGRAMS JEM EYE COLOR MOVIE#
The thing is, I don’t want to harp on how shitty the movie is or isn’t and talk more about the fallout of its failure.įorbes’ Scott Mendelson has a lengthy piece about how damaging Jem’s box office tanking can be for future projects but also how the movie was set up for failure from the very beginning.I co-sign the whole thing, except for the uncalled for dig he makes against LEGO Friends. You should drag your children to see this movie only if you wish them to come away understanding your contempt, not only for their intelligence, but for their very personhood.Īnders’ review is the best one I’ve read and is probably way more entertaining than the movie itself. The “girl power” of the original has been replaced by a kind of denatured internet power, selfhood by consensus. The main characteristic of Jem and the Holograms is a terrible, soul-numbing blandness, that accurately replicates the feeling of watching a few dozen amateur YouTube videos. If you read the reviews and analysis that are out there, it seems that those fears were justified. Other NOCs - and Jem superfans - have been suspicious of the movie and its all-male production team from the jump. Jem was - and is - a superhero property.Įven though some of us have tried to keep up hopes that the Jem film wouldn’t be that bad. Instead, Jem will be used as another example of why a female-led superhero franchise will never succeed coincidentally on the same day Supergirl on CBS is poised to prove the opposite is true.
Of course, the lesson Hollywood will take from Jem’s failure isn’t to be more faithful to the source material. In fact, Jem and the Holograms’ $1.3 million box office was so low that it was actually a flop of historic proportions.