Kimber, Aja, and Shana like to goof around in their rag-tag "band" and make music videos. A camera-shy Jerrica, aka Jem, played by Audrey Peeples, lives with her sister Kimber, played by Stefanie Scott, her aunt Bailey, played by ancient 80's relic Molly Ringwald, and Bailey's two foster/adopted daughters Shana, played by Aurora Perrineau, and Aja, played by Hayley Kiyoko. This movie is exactly what you'd expect provided you don't live under a rock and have seen any promotion for the film (which, by the way, was a ridiculously hard campaign and subsequent failed viral marketing attempt): it's a cliché-filled, contrived, stereotypical and standard music movie with a quick rise to stardom and the ~*dramatic~* crash to reality. All of our fears and preconceived notions of what this film could have been were fully realized upon watching the final product. Our expectations for this movie were lower than low based on the aforementioned trailers, which portrayed Jem and the Holograms as teeny-bopper Miley Cyrus wannabes with a horrible karaoke soundtrack behind them and a "trying too hard to be like the cartoon" makeup and dress style. So, hesitantly and questioning our own sanity, we pulled ourselves up from our whiny britches and sat through this suck-fest all so you wouldn't have to. And by the way, we say "film" in quotation marks above because it's really not a "film" at all, it's a third-rate YouTube video spliced together to make.whatever the hell it was we just watched. BigJ and I seriously considered breaking our "see every major movie released this year" streak and were this close to not seeing "Jem and the Holograms." The internet had a collective meltdown when the first trailer for this "film" got released because, while it might borrow the same general makeup / band concept /namesake from the beloved 80's cartoon, almost everything else isn't even close to being truly outrageous.
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