Josie and the Pussycats - The Complete Series
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Actor: Cheryl LaddBrand: JOSIE & THE PUSSYCAT
DVD: Region Code 1
Audio: English (Unknown), Dolby Digital 1.0; English (Subtitled); English (Original Language), Dolby Digital 1.0
Format: Animated, Closed-captioned, Color, DVD, NTSC, Subtitled
Picture Format: Academy Ratio, 1.33:1
Running Time: 352 minutes
DVD Release Date: 2007-09-18
Audience Rating: NR (Not Rated)
Model: H3698
Studio: Turner Home Ent
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- For those who waited anxiously every Saturday morning to faithfully follow their favorite band, your wait for their return on DVD is over. Josie and the Pussycats have reunited for this exclusive engagement! These "chicks" weren't just whistling Dixie. Their claws and fangs emerged to bust the meanest dudes - without messing up their hair and makeup for their next big sold-out concert. And even if
DVD Reviews of Josie and the Pussycats - The Complete Series
DVD Review: If you love Scooby Doo, you'll like Josie & the Pussycats
Summary: 5 Stars
If you had the least inclination to view this product on Amazon, you'll probably like owning it.
Based on what's been posted by other Amazon reviewers, the chief disappointment about "Josie and the Pussycats" seems to be its reliance on the same cookie-cutter plot episode after episode: the band travels to some exotic location and--against all odds--gets mixed up with another monolithic James Bond-caliber villain (who's eventually driven to articulate the obligatory angst about "those meddling kids"), culminating in a chase scene that's accompanied by a groovy ditty from the mini-skirt era. And of course, the gang triumphs in the end; roll the credits.
It's a good criticism. In fact, it's so good that it could be applied to just about any of the animated products churned out of the prolific studios of Hanna-Barbara--including the studio's most celebrated (and lucrative) creation, "Scooby Doo," which not only relied on the repetition of a contrived formula every episode--it was the same formula that would later be warmed over in "Josie and the Pusssycats" (to name but one of Hanna-Barbera shows that would attempt to cash in on minor variations of the Scooby Doo gimmick).
If this kind of repetition disappoints you, then you're not going to want to own any kid-vid products from the '60s, '70s or '80s. You may not even want to check them out of your local library. But there's nothing particularly worse (or better for that matter) about "Josie and the Pussycats."
What makes us willing to shell out hard-earned cash (or equally hard-earned credit) on these specimens of dreadful production value is not our appraisal of their quality when viewed through 21st century eyes, be it the animation, writing or even singing. It's nostalgia pure and simple. That's why I open my review as I do: if there's enough nostalgia to persuade you to look at the product, it's very likely that this show has a special place in your past and in your heart today.
Sure, when we watch this stuff today we catch things we didn't catch before. We've all grown up. But just as surely, we catch all the things that we did catch before; it's a time machine that takes us back to a nostalgic vision of the early '70s that only era's children ever experienced. Obviously watching this stuff doesn't denude us of our modern-day identity; we just get a chance to remember that those kids in the '70s were also us; we are one. Heavy stuff, but I think that's what going on behind the tingle of emotion we experience. And the real double-whammy of this nostalgia is that we can share it with our kids, at the very least more effectively than our parents could have shared grainy, black-and-white broadcasts of "Hopalong Cassidy" flicks or "Shirley Temple" movies. The next generation, while very different from our own, shares more in common culturally with us that we did with our parents. My five-year-old daughter, for example, recognizes that these Hanna-Barbara cartoons look "different" from what she's accustomed to, but she hasn't picked up on anything different that is also a deterrent. She enjoys them. My dad tried getting me interested in old westerns from the '30s and '40s, and I just couldn't stand the stuff (to say nothing of how Shirley Temple movies struck me).
That said, the value of all of these shows, "Josie" included, will no doubt be proportional to your affection for them 30 or more years ago. Audiences had decades to fall in love with Scooby Doo. They had only one year (or two, if you count the show's "Pussyscats in Outer Space" sequel) to fall in love with Josie. Now connoisseurs may argue that Scooby's longevity proves it to be a vastly superior show, but personally I classify such stilted critiques in the same category with comparative analyses of the various vintages of Cold Duck.
That said, if the cancellation of Josie was a childhood trauma, Amazon's got the cure three decades later. But if it was Scooby Doo you really loved and you have only fond memories of Josie, you'll probably only like this new DVD collection, whereas you'll love the Scooby DVD collections. And in light of what's on the tube these days (in between the rapidly multiplying quantity of commercials), just finding something you like isn't half bad. In that context, "Josie" might actually be better the second time around.
Description of Josie and the Pussycats - The Complete Series
No Description Available.Genre: Children's Video
Rating: NR
Release Date: 18-SEP-2007
Media Type: DVD
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