Criminally Overlooked

Rating: 10/10 (8 April 2019)

I don't get when people say this is vapid and has no substance when the film is a satire of those very concepts.
People don't give it enough credit for that. It also never takes itself too seriously and has tons of great jokes plus meta moments. The girls play a heightened self-parody version of themselves in the film. This is most evident when they are on the bus and talk about how people stereotype them. There is clearly a layer of irony in how oblivious they are. The film also makes fun of movie hallmarks encountering many movie cliches such as alien spaceships, manipulative press, bus chases, the rags to riches flashback etc.
The film delivers these tropes in a very tongue in cheek way, clearly satirizing them but never to a pretentious extent. The most impressive thing about it is that while the film is clearly mocking a lot of things it never forgets to be fun and highly entertaining. There are also surrealistic elements to the film such as the conversations between the heads of the press plotting to destroy the careers of the Spice Girls, the conversations between the movie executives and the bus chase scene. These give the film a very unique style of comedy which is more akin to sketch comedy and I would go as far to say that the bus chase is one of my favourite scenes in all of film period.
A very fun, adrenaline-filled film that has been criminally overlooked. Besides, you can't go wrong with the music of the Spice Girls which the movie constantly assaults you with. Also, Baby Spice is the best spice don't @ me.