I liked it, but it's really not Jem. What's the point of making a Jem movie and taking away 90% of what made Jem, Jem. Did they just completely omit Shana in this?

She's in it, but not in the trailer for whatever reasons. I'm thinking maybe she joins the group later into the film or something? She's also played by a rather fair-skinned girl with which I also take issue...

She's in it, but not in the trailer for whatever reasons. I'm thinking maybe she joins the group later into the film or something? She's also played by a rather fair-skinned girl with which I also take issue...

She was in there but probably too light for you to notice. I had no clue that was even Shana. I assumed it was the latina girl that they replaced her with in the final season

I liked the trailer.

UGH just NO to this. This is NOT Jem. Where are the Misfits?? Synergy is a robot??? WTF??

 

Why make a Jem movie for non Jem fans?  Also badly timed to since the show isn't airing reruns anymore. 

Why make a Jem movie for non Jem fans?  Also badly timed to since the show isn't airing reruns anymore. 

thats not true. It airs on Discovery Family

Why make a Jem movie for non Jem fans?  Also badly timed to since the show isn't airing reruns anymore. 

thats not true. It airs on Discovery Family

Not in my area

Why make a Jem movie for non Jem fans?  Also badly timed to since the show isn't airing reruns anymore. 

thats not true. It airs on Discovery Family

Not in my area

The show is on Netflix, which in today's world is much more relevant than reruns.

So I'm assuming (from what I've seen) that this will not be "Truly, truly truly outrageous". I used to watch Jem on Sunday mornings after I delivered newspapers when I was in high school.

Edited September 8, 201510 yr by slick jones

When I'm up early, I watch it on Discovery Family, get my '80s fix (G.I. Joe at 5am, Transformers at 6am, Jem at 7am).  The show holds up extremely well.  And in an age where you have pop star like Minaj, Gaga, Cyrus, Perry, et cetera, sporting truly (truly, truly) outrageous fashion and whatnot, the show's aesthetic (though patently '80s) seems hardly dated.  I would reboot the cartoon series kind of like how The Jetsons got a reboot in the '80s... no fancy computer animation, the same voice actors, just new episodes.

ouch!

 

Director Jon M. Chu (G.I. Joe: Retaliation, Step Up 2: The Streets) and producer Jason Blum (Paranormal Activity, Insidious) chose to re-imagine Jem for the 2010s, moving away from the outrageous sci-fi fantasy of the ’80s cartoon into a (relatively) more grounded, tween-friendly movie about fame in the viral age — including a social media campaign to get fans to share their enthusiasm for Jem.

That creative decision appears to have backfired in the most spectacular fashion imaginable — tweens unfamiliar with the Jem brand were clearly not interested, and neither were millennials and Gen Xers with a fond memory of the ’80s TV series. The movie, it seems, was for no one. It may even struggle to recoup its reported $5 million budget.

Guessing he didnt think of that. Too bad. I was hoping the movie would be good despite the changes 

It's a shame. Not much of a surprise I guess. I wish they'd treated the show with respect.

The movie was doomed from the start when they chose to cast those bland actresses.