A film version of a TV cartoon that started out as a comic book spinoff of Archie comics (whew!) I put several posts about this film on the "Miscellaneous Nits" page, but since I have a couple of more, I wanted to start a page for the film. (Jake, if you see this, could you move those posts over here? Thanks.)
As I said previously, this pic has become one of my guilty pleasures, with a self-aware sense of humor. So goofy, and no one in the pic takes it seriously. (Parker Posey as Fiona {a role originally intended for Madonna, BTW - thank heaven for small favors} chews so much scenery, you wonder how she stays so thin). The overwhelming use of corporate logos and product placement, including a shot of Manhattan as a center of every logo imaginable, still bothers me, and takes a bit of the fun out of this pic.
Nits
In the scene where Wyatt Frame (Alan Cumming) is driving down the streets of Riverdale, and first encounters The Pussycats (almost running them down,) he discards a CD from its jewel case and props it up in front of him, imagining what the band would look like on a CD cover. The nit here is that he discards the CD, but leaves the tray that holds the disc in the jewel box. However, we never see the tray, just the empty jewel box, when he props it up between him and the band.
Spoiler Alert
I put a "Spoiler Alert" up, although I don't think I'm giving too much away here. In the big concert scene (all bands do concerts, right, so there should be a concert scene) we hear the bass being played. However, Val (Rosario Dawson), the band's bassist, is obviously not playing. Melody (Tara Reid), the drummer, is playing, though.

According to the IMDB trivia page, no money was received for all the logo/product placement in this film.
Alan Cumming also played the Russian computer geek Boris ("I Am Invincible!") in 1995's James Bond pic Goldeneye.

I couldn't sleep last night, so I watched a late night (1:45 a.m. or so) screening of Josie And The Pussycats on the Starz channel for children, WAM. I didn't see a board for the film, so I'll post some comments here.
The film is a mixed bag. It was made for teenagers, with some innuendo and language thrown in for a PG-13 rating. Acting was so-so, with Parker Posey a bit over the top. I almost expected Rachel Leigh Cook (Josie) to whip out a frying pan and smash things up, as she did in the anti-drug PSA she did a few years ago.
Best thing about this movie was Rosario Dawson. She is radiantly beautiful, and is a real find. She has since gone on to roles in Men In Black II and Spike Lee's 25th Hour.
The plot-using subliminal messages in music to motivate kids-was similar to the "Groovy Guru" episode of Get Smart
I don't know what this film cost to make, but there were TWO studios involved. (Universal and MGM, who also co-produced Hannibal together.) What alarmed me was that there were either advertising logos or product placement in almost every scene, doubtless aimed at the kids who would be seeing this film. Isn't there enough advertising aimed at kids these days; now they were expected to pay $9 for 98 minutes of ads? (I think this pic bombed, so not too many of them did.) Also, with all that ad money coming in, why was there a necessity for two studios to be involved?

The ads were kind of a funny trend in product placement. They were done as a spoof of product placement (remember Wayne's World's bit about not selling out to commericalism while eating Pizza Hut and drinking Pepsi that are all framed better than the actors?) but the companies still paid for the placement.

What I liked about Josie (besides Rosario Dawson) was its self-aware sense of humor about its roots (from comic book to TV cartoon to big screen.)
The Mega Records (probably the only made-up company name in the movie) store looked just like the Virgin Megastore in Times Square. A nit here-the popular music department in the Virgin store is on the street level floor. The Mega store had pop on the lower level; the Virgin Megastore stocks classical and jazz CD's there.

Josie and the Pussycats has become a real guilty pleasure for me. It's playing this week on "Starz Theater," a Starz Super-Pak channel where they rotate four movies for a week straight. Overacting from all corners, a garish-looking city with logos and product placement everywhere, three hot chicks in a fake rock band-how can you go wrong?