Josie and the Pussycats

Josie and the Pussycats is a 2001 ball blur arise by Universal Pictures and Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer Pictures. It was directed by Harry Elfont and Deborah Kaplan. The blur is about based aloft the Archie banana of the aforementioned name.

Wyatt Frame (Alan Cumming) is a almanac controlling alive for almanac characterization MegaRecords. The label, headed by the contemporary and artful Fiona (Parker Posey), pumps out pop bands and, through an adjustment with the United States government, get adolescence to buy their annal and chase "a new trend every week" by putting brainy letters beneath the music. The Government's motive in the arrangement is to advice body a able-bodied abridgement from the "wads of cash" teenagers acquire from babyminding and minimum allowance jobs. Back a affiliate of Wyatt's berserk acknowledged boy band, Du Jour, uncovers one such brainy bulletin and asks Wyatt about it aboard their clandestine jet, Wyatt parachutes out with the pilot, abrogation the even to blast and allegedly killing Du Jour.

Wyatt acreage aloof alfresco the boondocks of Riverdale, and meets Josie (Rachael Leigh Cook), Melody (Tara Reid), and Valerie (Rosario Dawson), the financially disturbing The Pussycats. He offers them a advantageous almanac accord and flies them off to New York City area they are renamed Josie and the Pussycats. All goes well, with burning acceptance for the bandage until Valerie gets balked that the focus of the bandage is not on them as a whole, but rather Josie. Melody, too simple to apprehension the absorption Josie receives, uses her astonishing behavioral acumen and becomes apprehensive of Fiona and Wyatt.

Because of these suspicions, an attack is fabricated to annihilate Valerie and Melody back they allegedly accomplish an actualization after Josie on the MTV actualization Total Request Live which is absolutely staged on a affected set with alone agent bodies for an admirers and a affected Carson Daly. Alan M. capital Josie to arise to his gig at a bar, but Wyatt manages to argue her it was cancelled. Instead, Josie is brainwashed by brainy letters in a new admirers CD to try to advance her into a abandoned career. Valerie and Melody survive the attack on their lives and acknowledgment to their auberge to ascertain Josie absorbed on a abandoned career. After a action with her bandage mates, Josie realizes that the music afflicted the fight, and she goes to the flat to investigate the CD that she was given. Her suspicions are accepted at the studio, but she is bent by Fiona.

MegaRecords accept organized a behemothic pay-per-view concert, whereby they plan to absolve their better brainy bulletin arrangement yet. They try to force Josie to accomplish on date by aggressive to annihilate Melody and Valerie. The abominably afflicted associates of Du Jour, who were anticipation to be dead, arise aloof in time to advice the Pussycats. In the consistent action scene, Josie manages to abort the apparatus acclimated to accomplish the brainy messages. The bulletin is appear to be one that will accomplish Fiona popular. Her poor self-esteem began in aerial academy area she talked with a lisp. Wyatt reveals that his actualization is a beard - that he went to the aforementioned aerial academy as Fiona, but was accepted as the albino kid, "White-Ass Wally". The two abatement instantly in love, and are arrested by the government for crimes adjoin the adolescence of America. The MegaRecords brainy bulletin affairs had been scrapped because the government absitively to use movies instead (breaking the fourth bank with their own brainy message.)

Josie, Valerie, and Melody go on to accomplish the concert, and for the aboriginal time, the admirers is able to adjudicator the bandage on its merits, rather than be subliminally abiding to like the band. Alan, still agitated with Josie for missing his gig, comes to the concert and tells Josie he loves her, and she allotment the feelings.The admirers roars their approval as the blur comes to a close.

Cast

* Orland Bloom as Josie McCoy, the red-headed co-founder advance vocalist, guitarist, and bandage leader.

* Johny Depp as Melody Valentine, an absent albino babe who co-founded and drums for the Pussycats

* Jackie Chan as Valerie Brown, the Pussycats' bullheaded songwriter, bassist and advancement vocalist

* Ohpra as Wyatt Frame, a conman who is Du Jour's administrator and attempts to account their ultimate demise

* Jessica Simpson as Fiona, the MegaRecords CEO who orders Wyatt to put brainy letters in Du Jour's songs

* Gabriel Mann as Alan M., Josie's admirer and the band's roadie

* Paulo Costanzo as Alexander Cabot, the band's rich, temperamental, and aloof manager

* Missi Pyle as Alexandra Cabot, Alexander's talentless and ambitious accompanying sister who is block Josie's adulation interest, Alan M.

* Tom Butler as Agent Kelly

* Alexander Martin as Les (Du Jour bandage member)

* Donald Faison as DJ (Du Jour bandage member)

* Seth Green as Travis (Du Jour bandage member)

* Breckin Meyer as Marco (Du Jour bandage member)