josie and the pussycats

Filmed entirely in Vancouver, Canada, the film features Rachael Leigh Cook, Tara Reid, and Rosario Dawson as the Pussycats, with Alan Cumming, Parker Posey, Gabriel Mann, Paulo Costanzo, and Missi Pylein supporting roles. Josie and the gang quickly find themselves unwilling participants in a circus run by the frog-men of Kalex. Josie and the Pussycats (formatted as Josie and the Pussy Cats in the opening titles) is an American animated television series based upon the Archie Comics comic book series of the same name created by Dan DeCarlo. On the planet Gezzner, Melody is found to resemble the goddess that the planet's populace worships. Josie and the Pussycats featured an all-girl pop music band that toured the world with their entourage, getting mixed up in strange adventures, spy capers, and mysteries. The Pussycats encounter two aliens, who attempt to convince Josie and the gang into helping them against a dragon that is menacing them. Professor Belfour's former assistant, who stole the potion and used it on himself to embark on a life of crime, now calls himself Mr. X and is intent on stopping Professor Belfour from developing an antidote to the potion. In this movie based on the 1970`s animated television series, the Pussycats find themselves being used by a tyrannical record company mogul to brainwash America's youth in a plot to take over the world. Produced for Saturday morning television by Hanna-Barbera Productions, 16 episodes of Josie and the Pussycats aired on CBS during the 1970–71 television season and were rerun during the 1971–72 season. Enrolled in an elite gymnastics program run by the legendary Burt Vickerman (Jeff Bridges), Haley's rebellious attitude gives way to something that just might be called team spirit. Which Alan also dig's Josie. It definitely is a little bit better holding up for me than going through Space Ghost and Dino Boy was, but its still healthier in smaller, spread out samplings as opposed to one huge binge. Borrowing liberally from Scooby-Doo’s formula and using familiar vocal talent like Casey Kasem, Josie and friends get into mischief while saving the day from villains in exotic locations. Will our heroes end up collecting Social Security at age 25? Ladd sang lead on "Inside, Outside, Upside-Down", "Dream Maker", "I Wanna Make You Happy", "The Time To Love", "I Love You Too Much", "Lie! Songs: "Dreaming" (excerpt), "Inside, Outside, Upside Down". Directed and co-written by Harry Elfont and Deborah Kaplan, the film is loosely based on the Archie Comics series and the Hanna-Barbera cartoon of the same name. Finding themselves lost in space aboard a spaceship, the Pussycats land on the planetoid Zelc and encounter a creature named Bleep. However, Alexandra is jerked inside along with the rest of them and accidentally triggers the launch sequence, sending them and the ship into deep space. A Josie in Outer Space episode, "Warrior Women of Amazonia", was featured in a clip/episode collection of Hanna-Barbera on VHS, released in the UK. His opening scene with the fictional boyband Du Jour is worth the price of admission! Melody comes into possession of a strange ancient coin during the gang's trip to Hong Kong. When the Shadow discovers that the gang has the box, he and his henchmen embark on an around-the-world chase to steal it from them. As my title blurb points out, this is an amusing and potent satire on the power and manipulation of the entertainment industry.Alan Cumming is outstanding as the villainous band manager who uses, abuses and throws away at whim. Can Josie and the Pussycats stop them? When the hot boy band DuJour discovers this, their manager, Wyatt Frame, under his evil, corrupt boss, Fiona, has the plane they are flying in crashed and him looking for a new band to use for their evil schemes. On a Friday evening, Manhattan gallery owner Jack (50's) meets Claire and Victoria (both early 20's) on a Soho street and invites them up to his loft "to see his Max Ernst collages." https://hanna-barbera.fandom.com/wiki/Josie_and_the_Pussy_Cats View production, box office, & company info. Josie and the Pussycats instead lives in a world of its own, a hyper-realized pastiche of pop culture, comic book visuals, satire, throwback allusions, and darker-than-expected drama that somehow works. TriStar/Getty ImagesFor a lot of people, this may be equal to the shock of finding your first grey hair: The movie Josie and the Pussycats just turned 20 years old. And whenever the musician or band finds out the truth, the record company silences them to keep the truth from coming out. An African-American mystery-solving musician, she was a direct parody of the Josie and the Pussycats character Valerie Brown.[19]. The original soundtrack to Deborah Kaplan and Harry Elfont's live-action, big-screen adaptation of Archie Comics' Josie & the Pussycats brings together the talents of, among others, Jane Wiedlin of the Go-Go's, Letters to Cleo's Kay Hanley, and the production team of Babyface and his wife, Tracey Edmonds. 14 of 18 people found this review helpful. It had a successor series, Josie and the Pussycats in Outer Space that aired in 1972. Over all, its weird, charming little show. Like Scooby-Doo, Where Are You!, Josie and the Pussycats was originally broadcast with a laugh track. Josie and the Pussycats is a 2001 musical comedy film released by Universal Pictures and Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer. Musical numbers and chase sequences set to newly recorded songs were featured in this spin-off series as with the original. Eventually, the Pussycats would ruin the villain's plans, resulting in a final chase sequence set to a Pussycats song. Valerie Brown is a character on Josie and the Pussy Cats.In the band, she plays tambourines. The ship containing the Pussycats lands on the planet Kalex. The critical drubbing and seeming audience rejection was a tough blow for Kaplan and Elfont, who truly felt they had made something special. The gang run afoul of a modern-day descendant of Captain Nemo while on their way to a musical gig on Pago Pago Island. It's a cult classic now, but when it was released in April 2001, the movie "Josie and the Pussycats" was a big flop. When it was released in 2001, Josie and the Pussycats barely made a ripple at the box office, grossing just $14.87 million on a $39 million budget and … Josie and the Pussycats subverted those tropes off and on-screen. Alexandra Cabot is a character in the Josie and the Pussy Cats franchise. "Long Tails and Ears for Hats: The Story of Josie and The Pussy Cats". The Pussycats land on the planet Arcobia, where they try to help expose the corrupt Prime Minister Rulo as the true thief of a device that is very important to the planet. The gang gets lost in outer space mainly because of Alexandar who as crush on Alan who Josie likes also. The gang's plane, heading for Puerto Rico, makes an emergency landing in a Caribbean jungle inhabited by dinosaurs and bipedal apes, all of which are under the control of a mad scientist named Dr. Madro, who can change humans into animals. Following the film's 20th anniversary, we take a look back at how great 'Josie and the Pussycats' continues to be. When the henchmen for a power-mad nuclear engineer called the Scorpion snatch the drum, the gang rush to recover the instrument and become entangled in the Scorpion's scheme to rule the world with his weather control device. "Oh my God, I'm a trend pimp!" In celebration of the 20th Anniversary of the film, stars Rachael Leigh Cook, Rosario Dawson, and Tara Reid reunited virtually to talk about the film, which has since become a cult classic.. Josie And The Pussycats In Outer Space was a spin off from the Original Josie And the Pussycats cartoon. She was voiced by Barbara Pariot.. About Valerie. Written by Yes, Josie, Val and Mel fight, but in their defense, they were literally being brainwashed by a … [8] The Valerie character was the first black female character on a regular Saturday morning cartoon series. She is the lead vocalist and plays guitar. It is up to the gang to hitchhike to the Laser's hideout in the Grand Canyon and foil his plans. Both programs, as of March 3, 2014, are in the library of Boomerang (Turner Broadcasting's archive cartoon channel). By the time they get the ship under control, they are hopelessly lost in space. Shrewdly concocted by codirectors Harry Elfont and Deborah Kaplan, Josie and the Pussycats is a wildly comedic update of the Archie comic book (and early 1970s cartoon show). Watch it here. A pair of red-tail hawks build a nest in a fancy high-rise near New York's Central Park. Title: With the villain captured, the Pussycats would return to their gig or recording session, and the final gag was always one of Alexandra's failed attempts to interfere with the Pussycats' performance or steal Alan away from Josie. Their ruler, Throg, plans an attack on Earth; can Josie and her friends can stop him? No has discovered them, its true, but things can change. Josie and the Pussycats (formatted as Josie and the Pussy Cats in the opening titles) is an American animated television series based upon the Archie Comics comic book series of the same name created by Dan DeCarlo. For years, the record industries have inserted subliminal messages into music so that they can turn teenagers into brain dead zombies who do nothing but buy, buy, buy. The Pussycats are shanghaied by robots and forced to journey to a planet ruled by an ambitious villain called the Mighty Mitchko. Josie was the one who came up with the idea of calling themselves the Pussycats, as she showed up to practice one day with cheap cat ears from a Halloween store.They were highly ambitious and won Rockland County's Battle of the Bands during their freshman year. [20], Saturday Morning: Cartoons' Greatest Hits, an inferior version created by the studio, http://www.geocities.com/antlion7/josie.htm, "Josie and the Pussycats DVD news: Announcement for Josie and the Pussycats - The Complete Series", "Josie and the Pussycats in Outer Space - Blasting Off on Another Chase: Complete Series Date, Details, Box Art! The antagonist was always a diabolical mad scientist, spy, or criminal who wanted to take over the world using some high-tech device. Rachael Leigh Cook to Star in Netflix Movie ‘A Tourist’s Guide to Love,’ Eirene Donohue to Write (Exclusive), Link Tank: Josie and the Pussycats Fan Launched Crowdfunding Campaign for Oral History Book, Rachael Leigh Is Glad She Did Josie and the Pussycats, Even If It Put Her in 'Movie Jail', Inspirational Women's History Singer and Musician Biopics. by. A mix-up in the mail brings them plans for a top secret device that can deactivate the world's technology. Josie and the Pussycats featured a teenage all-girl pop music band that toured the world with their entourage, getting mixed up in strange adventures, spy capers, and mysteries. Stars Rachael Leigh Cook, Rosario Dawson and Tara Reid have come together with ET’s Nischelle Turner to … They held a talent search to find three girls who would match the three girls in the comic book in both looks and singing ability; early plans, which did not come to fruition, called for a live-action Pussycats segment at the end of each episode. The theme song was based on melodies from an incidental tune that had been played on various Hanna-Barbera cartoons since The Jetsons. Other characters included their cowardly manager Alexander Cabot III, his conniving sister Alexandra, her cat Sebastian, and muscular roadie Alan. But it's not all limousines and private jets. Why do you sometimes have this insane drive for a Big Mac or Coke? In September 1972, a sequel spin-off series titled Josie and the Pussycats in Outer Space debuted on CBS. Josie and The Pussycats (Music from the Motion Picture) is a time machine back to the last days of rock and roll, and boy bands from the TRL era of MTV. This is the opening and closing credits and theme song from season 1 of the hit Saturday morning cartoon "Josie and the Pussycats." Illustration by Elizabeth Brockway/The Daily BeastTwenty years have come and gone since the release of Josie and the Pussycats, a comedic film spun off the popular Archie Comics. [12][13] Warner Archive released the HD versions of Josie and the Pussycats on Blu-ray on November 3, 2020,[14] with a Josie and the Pussycats in Outer Space Blu-ray scheduled to be released on April 13, 2021. The Pussycats encounter a planet where the populace depends heavily on the power of magnets. Josie and the Pussycats, a gigantic box office bomb, turns 20 this month. at the height of their fame? Thanks to Alexandra's scheming, the gang, thinking that they are headed to Nashville for a gig, end up in the Amazon jungle, where they encounter an evil botanist named Dr. Greenthumb, his man-eating plants, and a tribe of headhunters. Valerie has a black curly bob, brown skin and black irises. Enter Josie, the ditsy Melody, and the tough Valerie, from Josie and the Pussycats, a small band who wants to make it to the big time. Animation studio Hanna-Barbera Productions wanted to duplicate the success their competitors Filmation were having with The Archie Show. [15][16], Josie and the Pussycats was named the 100th best animated series by entertainment website IGN, which referred to Josie as an amusing show for the way in which it combined elements from The Archie Show and Scooby-Doo.[18]. Braggo intends to use the ship as a vessel in his pirate fleet to loot and plunder ships and planets that he comes across. The Pussycats soon discover they're being played like pawns in an evil plot by the record label's maniacal CEO Fiona (Parker Posey) to control the youth of America. Loosely based on The Invisible Man. In this way, 2017 proved a pivotal year for Josie and the Pussycats. This version of the series launched the characters into outer space; the opening credits sequence shows the group taking a promotional photo at the launch site of a new spaceship and a jealous Alexandra elbowing the cast aside in order to steal the spotlight from Josie yet again. The show, more similar to Hanna-Barbera's successful Scooby-Doo, Where Are You! Will, I never saw the original cartoon but decided to pick up 2001's "Josey and the Pussycats" because Tara Reid's such a cutie and it looked like some fun entertainment.Yes, it's fun and the girls are attractive (also featuring Rachael Leigh Cook & Rosario Dawson) but, surprisingly, "Josey and the Pussycats" shoots for something deeper. Loosely based on Mission Impossible. The gang's hot air balloon in Miami is set loose and ends up on the island of Dr. Strangemoon, a mad scientist who plans to launch missiles that will devastate the Earth's atmosphere. While in Paris, the gang is entrusted with a mysterious black box by an agent and are told to protect it from a mysterious criminal called the Shadow. Josie and the Pussycats playfully skewers this irony by committing the same sins as Mega Records. Murray later co-starred in the Riverdale spin-off Katy Keene starting in 2020 as an adult Josie, with Lucien Laviscount as Alexander and Camille Hyde as Alexandra. Janssen presented the newly formed band to William Hanna and Joseph Barbera to finalize the production deal. While in Mexico, nuclear capsules are slipped into Melody's bass drum during a fuel stop. The ship from Josie and the Pussycats in Outer Space, along with other iconic ships, appears as space debris in the Futurama episode "Mobius Dick". Keep track of everything you watch; tell your friends. Charles, Don (March 2003). Songs: "I Wanna Make You Happy" (excerpt), "You've Come a Long Way, Baby". [3] This brought its national Saturday morning TV run on three networks to six years. They are mocked by fellow students, despite being quite talented. The Pussycats are in New York City for a recording session. A high school jock makes a bet that he can turn an unattractive girl into the school's prom queen. [2] Reruns of the original series alternated between CBS, ABC, and NBC from 1974 through 1976. Josie and the gang encounter a race of giants on a planet that has developed a fluid capable of extinguishing the Sun completely and their leader, Orco plans to use their spaceship as a means of delivering the extinguisher. Songs: "It's Alright With Me", "The Hand Clapping Song" (excerpt). Songs: "Every Beat of My Heart" (excerpt), "Clock on the Wall". Interesting developments follow at the get-together. Suddenly, Josie and the Pussycats are living life in the fast lane with sold-out concerts, a number one single and global stardom. Visit my blog to download the soundtrack.http://offramptonowhere.blogspot.com/ Her primary wardrobe is a purple sleeveless short dress with a pink long sleeve button shirt underneath with a matching collar and purple flats. Josie and the Pussycats shouldn't need it. Rachael Leigh Cook, Rosario Dawson and … A champion high school cheerleading squad discovers its previous captain stole all their best routines from an inner-city school and must scramble to compete at this year's championships. Josie and the Pussycats have reunited! [11], Both Josie and the Pussycats and Josie and the Pussycats in Outer Space are available on the Boomerang and HBO Max streaming services, with the latter featuring the series in remastered HD copies. If you watch anything from Josie and the Pussycats, the 2001 film based off … than the original Josie comic book, is remembered for its music, the girls' leopard print leotards (replete with "long tails and ears for hats," as the theme song states), and for featuring Valerie as the first regularly appearing female black character in a Saturday morning cartoon show. Can the Pussycats save the queen from the robot's clutches? Take a look at your favorite stars from the 1990s and how they've changed in the last three decades. Three small words: WE LOVE JATP! A deceptive and evil record producer needs new blood and orders an underling to find some fresh faces. Produced for Saturday morning television by Hanna-Barbera Productions, 16 episodes of Josie and the Pussycats aired on CBS during the 1970–71 television season and were rerun during the 1971–72 season.[1]. A Josie and the Pussycats: The Complete Series two-DVD box set was released in Region 1 (the United States, Canada, and Japan) on September 18, 2007. Several episodes of Speed Buggy, a later Hanna-Barbera show, had similar plots to some Josie and the Pussycats episodes, specifically the two Josie and the Pussycats episodes "A Greenthumb is Not a Goldfinger" ("Island of the Giant Plants" in Speed Buggy) and "X Marks the Spot" ("Out of Sight" in Speed Buggy), and the Josie and the Pussycats in Outer Space episode "Warrior Women of Amazonia" ("The Hidden Valley of Amazonia" in Speed Buggy). A popular high-school cheerleader becomes pregnant by the star quarterback and turns to crime to support her desired lifestyle. Josie's surname has been incon… During the 1968-69 television season, the first Archie-based Saturday morning cartoon, The Archie Show, was a huge success, not only in the ratings on CBS, but also on the Billboard charts: The Archies' song "Sugar, Sugar" hit the #1 spot on the Billboard charts in September 1969, becoming the number one song of the year. Josie and the Pussycats is an awful mess of a film. The movie, which marks the only feature film adaptation of an Archie Comics property yet to … Despite never having been in the spaceship before, Val seems to know how to pilot it. 2001’s Josie and the Pussycats had a cast reunion of Tara Reid, Rosario Dawson and Rachael Leigh Cook for the film’s 20th anniversary. A VHS videocassette of Josie and the Pussycats in Outer Space containing three episodes was issued by Worldvision Home Video in 1983. In the 1960s, a group of friends at an all girls school learn that their school is going to be combined with a nearby all boys school. Hanley provides the voice of Josie (played by Rachael Leigh Cook) on the Pussycats' … MCU fans, here are some streaming picks to watch while you wait for the next episode of "The Falcon and the Winter Solider.". In the mid-1980s, both series, along with a number of other 1970s Hanna-Barbera cartoons, were on board USA Network's Cartoon Express; they would next appear on Cartoon Network in 1992, where all 32 episodes were run in the same time slot. Josie and the Pussycats in Outer Space also added the character of Bleep, a pet-sized fluffy alien adopted by Melody, who was the only one who could understand the creature's language (he only says "Bleep" repeatedly) and numerous other alien animals encountered. The film starred Rachael Leigh Cook as Josie, Tara Reid as Melody, and Rosario Dawson as Valerie. [10] All 16 episodes, again minus the laugh tracks, were included, as well as a half-hour documentary on the life and career of Dan DeCarlo. Can the Pussycats figure out who is the true menace before it is too late? Josie and the Pussycats debuted on the CBS Saturday morning lineup on September 12, 1970, with the episode "The Nemo's a No-No Affair". Josie and the Pussycats is a 2001 American musical comedy film released by Universal Pictures, and Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer. After a failed attempt at developing a teenage-music-band show of their own called Mysteries Five (which eventually became Scooby-Doo, Where are You! Lie! Josie (Rachael Leigh Cook) is the lead singer and guitarist for the all girls rock band, as depicted in the Archie comics. During a trip to England, the gang meets Professor Isaac Belfour, who has created an invisibility potion. After a run-in with the law, Haley Graham (Missy Peregrym) is forced to return to the world from which she fled some years ago. An imaginary dream woman is the object of desire for a drifter and an escaped mental patient. In 2016, Josie and the Pussycats was rebooted as a comic book. [4] Each episode featured a Josie and the Pussycats song played over a chase scene, which, similarly to The Monkees, featured the group running after and away from a selection of haplessly villainous characters.[3]. The gang encounters an alien spaceship in Peru led by a ruthless alien named Zor, who forces the gang and the local natives to work in a diamond mine. Get a sneak peek of the new version of this page. While skiing in the Alps, the gang ends up in the clutches of a baron calling himself Dr. Midas, who plans to destroy the world's entire supply of gold unless half of it is given to him. Portrayed as a sweet, attractive, and level-headed teenage girl, Josie is usually the stable center in the middle of the chaos surrounding her band and her friends. A woolly creature named Bleep joined the cast, whom Melody could communicate with. [7] After interviewing over 500 finalists, settled upon casting Kathleen Dougherty (Cathy Dougher) as Josie, Cherie Moor (later known as Cheryl Ladd) as Melody, and Patrice Holloway as Valerie. She obsessively wants Alan for herself and always tries to make Josie look like a fool in front of everyone, but it always backfires on her and she ends up with the short end of the stick. Add the first question. How do artists with little actual talent and songwriting abilities become hugely popular while the truly talented artists languish in obscurity (like Meliah Rage)? The Pussycats' ship is seized by robot space pirates under the command of Captain Braggo. Josie's going to be the Next Big Thing, and to her manager (Alan Cumming) and Megarecords mogul Fiona (Parker Posey), the other Pussycats are expendable baggage in their scheme to dictate the cool quotient of teenagers everywhere. But will they find out that they are just pawns for the record industry or will fame take them over? The Hardy Boys drummer Pete Jones had been the first black male to appear on Saturday mornings a year earlier. The Serpent, a mad toy maker, pursues the gang in order to obtain the coin, which is the key to his plans for the conquest of Asia. Valerie has a black curly bob, brown skin and black irises. On the small-screen, the group consisted of level-headed lead singer and guitarist Josie McCoy, intelligent tambourinist Valerie Brown, and air-headed blonde drummer Melody Valentine. Use the HTML below. Forget nine lives, these pussycats are livelier than ever 20 years later. When they are discovered by Wyatt, they give in and become big rock stars. The 16 episodes of Josie and the Pussycats in Outer Space were re-run for the 1973–1974 season until January 26, 1974, when CBS cancelled it and ordered no more new Josie episodes from Hanna-Barbera. A complete graduating class, consisting of beautiful girls, geeks and promising footballers, assemble at a rich classmate's residence for a party. Song: "(Hey) Did You Have Yourself a Day?". Josie and the Pussycats made a final appearance as animated characters in a guest shot on the September 22, 1973, episode of The New Scooby-Doo Movies, "The Haunted Showboat". Josie and the Pussycats were formed prior to the start of the series. Josie and the Pussycats got back together — sans long tails and ears for hats. Was this review helpful to you? It seems that the Pussycats have actually got the big gig when the gang is invited by an eccentric Countess to play a private performance on her secluded Mediterranean island, where they discover too late that the invitation was a ruse to obtain young test subjects for her rapid aging mist. What ... See full summary ». On a water planet, the Pussycats' ship is hijacked by locals intent on conquering Earth with a water-controlling device. The film received mixed … Valerie bears an uncanny resemblance to an abducted Arabian princess and thus becomes involved in a plan to catch her kidnapper, a hypnotist known as the Evil Eye. The movie, which marks the only feature film adaptation of an Archie Comics property yet to … Two VHS volumes of Josie and the Pussycats, each containing four episodes of the original 1970 series, minus the laugh tracks, were released by Warner Home Video (Hanna-Barbera had been sold to Turner Broadcasting in 1991, with Turner merging with Time Warner six years later) on April 10, 2001 to coincide with the release of the live-action film. A second video cassette, Josie and the Pussycats in Outer Space Volume 2, was released in 1985. When they are discovered by Wyatt, they give in and become big rock stars. Alexander is turned into a chicken and then an ape, while Sebastian the cat is turned into a bulldog! 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