Nostalgia
An observation on the perception of time. Clicking around from the
IMDB Bottom 100 list, I got to
Spice World. Those girls were big in the pop world not that long ago and some of them are still making headlines. I wouldn't expect the
spotlight comment in its IMDB entry to be titled like this:
Nostalgic...
When I was seven and this movie came out, it was the biggest thing around. Everyone wanted to be the Spice Girls. After they split up and weren't cool anymore, everyone forgot about the movie. But ho, ho, what's this? Years later, here I am cleaning out my old Disney and Barney videos and stumble across my old friend that I used to watch everyday. Even at my old age of fifteen, never failed to crack me up.
Obviously, this isn't meant to be a contender for Oscars. Anyone can see that. But I can't find much to hate about a movie that's practically the visual to go along with the song "Girls just wanna have fun." That's all it is, fun. And a lot of good fun at that. It's just a guilty pleasure, and it's so much fun to watch it with old friends singing into hair brushes and wearing feather boas. You just need to keep in mind that it was publicity for their new record and it's not meant to be one of those heavy movies you over-analyze. Recommendation: This movie is much funner when you watch it jumping up and down on a couch like a seven year old.
Come to think of it, she's reminiscing about "half a lifetime ago". That's just amazing...
Enough with the 80s flashbacks, I say. Make way for the next generation to fondly remember their 90s.
