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HAPPY
20TH
BIRTHDAY!
SPICE WORLD:
AMISUNDERSTOODMA
It’s been two decades since the fabulous fivesome gave us what we really, really wanted…
peningcredits. Toomuch…butalso, justenough. Hearthat,RottenTomatoes? someseriousspicetothemix.
O Theworld’smost sinceSpiceWorlddivideda Asfarasheat isconcerned,the
Canyoubelieveit’sbeen20years
Honestly,haveyoueverseen
Musicbegins.
Shoveyour36percentrating.
film is a cinematic masterpiece.
nation? Since we went crazy
famous girl band
Admittedly, Spice World was
watching our favourite girl group
appear, dressed
in matching
nonsensical plot – all the while
of pop-star celebrity – that had
white mesh zig-a-zig-ah their way through a not the first film to roast the cult
andcrooning for the cameras. distracted by more celeb cameos been done 33 years before by The
Thesong? Too Much. And so and send-ups than a year’s Beatles when, during the heightof
began90 of the most bonkers, subscription to heat – while critics Beatlemania, the fab four played
tongue-in-cheek minutes ever. universally panned it. There’s a themselves fleeing from schoolgirl
There are aliens, male dancers thin line between “terrible” and “so fans in A Hard Day’s Night. But
wearing bum-less chaps, Roger bad it’s amazing”, and, let’s be our platform trainer-stomping,
Moore stroking a piglet – and honest, we all know on which side bikini-bra-clad feminists took E
that’s just for starters. this movie is forever entrenched. the term “self-aware” and added V
The (Sp)ice
maiden
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