JEM! Jem has a theme song – OOOO-ooo-oooh Jem!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bgzZ2Ta0EpA

http://elcultodejem.iespana.es/archiv/galeria2/08.jpg

Why don't I do my eyeshadow like this? Seriously?

A good summary I found on a web site:

The story begins in los angeles USA, Jerrica, a beautiful, sweet and intelligent young woman along with her little sister Kimber, they suffer their father's death who was Starlight music owner, a discographic seal of great importance in the country. the man was also philantropus and inventor.

Jerrica would have to be prepared and try to save her father's business which is been threated by Eric Raymond, a corrupt man who was her father's asistant for many years and now he's trying to steal starlight Music and become millionaire:

to achive this, Eric will present a new band; The Misfits integrated by three young daring girls; Pizzazz the leader of the group and daughter of an unconcerned multimillionaire man. Roxy a violent and ignorant young lady and Stormer an insecure and good feelings girl.

One night, Jerrica receive a present his father kept for her before he die, a pair of star form earings that keep a magic secret, suddendly appears before her an holograms with a woman form which drives her and her friends to a close autocinema secret room where is hidden the main computer called Synergy, which is capable of generate holograms as real as material, change form of things, create artistics and unreal images.

The girl will understand that her father has left her the most powerful and dangerous artefact ever built. This room also keeps tons of clothing and dozens of musical instruments.

I used to watch this with my sister. Maybe this is how I knew I was queer.

Also: the toy dolls were like 23 ft tall.

Would rather vote Limp Lizards "Broken Glass"

^^^this. "My life is...a garbage heap/My life's full...of choking gas/Since you left, my world's like....brooookeeen glaaaaass!"

my mom called my jem doll a drag queen

she's right!

How is it I have lived my life unaware of this cartoon adventure.

australia

God, I loved Jen. I also had the doll - her hair was two toned and would switch from blonde to pink depending on if she was Jem or Jerrica. Also, I may have made people call me Jerrica for a short while.

lol @ jerrica's beret

I have about half a dozen Jem tapes floating around still. Britta Phillips of Luna and Dean and Britta was the singing voice for Jem.

I know isn't that crazy? I am a huge Luna fan and was a little skeptical when she replaced Justin but then I found out she was Jem and felt better about the whole thing.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nsWuVnFy3XM

I wanna be rich....in 1987 Beverly Hills.

omg beverly hills teens i was obsessed with that show!

i'm now watching an episode on youtube + it's terrible.

I loved it too! Should I not watch and preserve my memories?

Jem and She-Ra (princess of power) ruled my 8 year old world. Bought a She-Ra dvd when it came out a few years ago and holeeeee crap it's awful.

omg beverly hills teen i remember that shit

she ra was my favorite

Wasn't there supposed to be some sort of contest involving calling some number and singing the theme song? I remember me and friend rehearsing this ... I think we even practiced harmonies, but never entered the contest.

I had the She Ra castle! It was pink and opened up like a doll house. I loved that thing to death. Also my favorite of the she ra dolls had black hair and green eyes but I don't remember her name.

Oh man sarahel if you called some number that was my phone number and sang the song you would win the contest of making the best phone call ever. (It wld be like the day I called everyone I knew to sing them the 'David the Gnome' theme song.)

xpost Catra?

she was my favorite, and also the villain lol

Roxy yes - Catra!! You just blew my mind - I remember it so clearly now. She was so much better than She-Ra.

http://predaking.com/EbayApril09/Catra1.jpg

I never had any She-Ra stuff, only He-Man. Uh, thanks, Dad?

Ok I am seriously having weird flashbacks right now. What was the thing that lived in the tree and said something at the end of each She Ra episode?

Sorry to hijack Jem thread Abbott but this is important!

It was a rainbow colored cat maybe?

Never listened to this stuff when I was a kid, but discovered the music later in the game. Jem's songs are sorta enh, but The Misfits shit is great, particularly 'I Am a Giant' and 'Click Clash'.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=60w-ZY9KQhg
Rio eat your heart out:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6h7gE8m0jic
Very Polly Jean:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CZbm-ja_KF8

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=q18JYtHhT9Y

OK this is awesome.

I had Catra, she was the best! I also had the castle. I loved the little elevator! Or was that in He-man's? I had both. (Divorced parents..)

I live downstairs from a man named Jem! I chose ¡JEM!

OK - Jem was a really weird cartoon, huh?

FFM - You live downstairs from a man named Jem!

am i going to be the only hetero guy on this thread?

we are the misfits our songs are better ftw

^ voted the same

That's two lines!

I went with the "our songs are better" one

went with 'we are the misfits, the misfits' in the same vein

well of course

not sure how jem is 'outrageous' in any sense, misfits claim that they had better songs is more a statement of fact

The Holograms' rival band are a punk band called the Misfits: petulant rich girl Pizzazz (Phyllis Gabor) and her cohorts: no-nonsense Roxy (Roxanne Pelligrini) and kind-hearted, sensitive keytar player Stormer (Mary Phillips), who are later joined by the manipulative British saxophone player, Jetta (Sheila Burns). (This group should not be confused with the real-life band The Misfits, led by Glenn Danzig.)

oh YES THEY SHOULD

gotta watch out for those manipulative British saxophone players

kind-hearted, sensitive keytar player

That's me!

ENBB - I live downstairs from a man named Jem!

I know! That's awesome!

http://th07.deviantart.net/fs12/200H/i/2006/318/1/c/Jem_in___Encore___by_Tiger_Standingstill.jpg

Expose also fantastic btw, thanks for your recommendations I M Losted.

I like the adventures of Jiz & the Mammograms

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=e3C5SeNcVpQ

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=D2mYfwX52Bs

Nothing can top the super-glam graphics of Jem!!

Sample the evil that is the Misfits:

http://youtu.be/e6EporZe2tk

http://geektyrant.com/news/jem-and-the-holograms-first-movie-poster-and-cast-announced

produced by beiber svengali scooter braun apparently

http://www.stereogum.com/1801350/watch-a-trailer-for-the-live-action-jem-and-the-holograms-video/video/

I'm still laughing, this is going to be incredibly terrible

My FB feed is filled with people positively scandalized by this.

It looks like they swiped the script from The Apple tbh.

I never even had a strong attachment to the animated series and I'm still blowing a gasket over it.

what they've done to this is... TRULY OUTRAGEOUS

Turns out the Misfits ... were the FILMMAKERS THEMSELVES!

turns out the Misfits....THEIR SONGS WERE BETTER!

Amazing that the theme song is not in this trailer, it's the only thing I remember from that show.

Also why is the last half of the music in the trailer sung by a dude?

Not just any dude, but One Direction.

I had an uncontrollable laughing fit at that

I would imagine that the guy who acquired the rights to Jem & the Holograms in a poker game didn't do much more than look at a picture of Jem & the Holograms before signing off on the movie. I wouldn't expect a faithful adaptation, and it wouldn't be surprising to learn that Jem's voice was overdubbed by Harry Styles through the whole thing.

Some of the original voice actors, including Britta Phillips, are credited in this movie. Not sure in what capacity, though.

They play old Jem and the Holograms in the present-day sequences, trying to find the Heart of the Ocean.

this movie cost 10m to make its gonna make a gang of money

I'm not sure I'll still be mad or even care by the time it comes out in October, but big parts of the internet have a longer memory than I do. Can't wait to be reminded how mad I am.

$10M?! You couldn't even make The Blair Witch Project in 2015 for $10M.

has anybody made the "Haim and the Jello-grams" joke yet?

Not fair to Haim. Or Jello.

Or funny

A "good" Jem movie'd be such a betrayal of the shiftiness that made the orig so great, so psyched

JEM, Transformers, and GI Joe were interchangeable: same vocal parts. I kept waiting for Megatron to show up playing keytar on "You Got the Touch."

A "good" Jem movie'd be such a betrayal of the shiftiness that made the orig so great

They should've gone FULL CARTOON like Scott Pilgrim, but apparently they only scrounged up a meager budget to start with. To do it right, you'd need more money. Doesn't excuse them from stripping all the crazy elements out and branding some generic price-of-fame tale as Jem and The Holograms, though.

Are the kids all about holograms these days, eh? I remember the 80's love for those but don't think anybody gives a shit these days unless it's like tupac or something.

we still are!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JLVM7NLowAQ

Tupac as Shana pls

Watched the trailer and even by Transformers standards this looks like a dull af remake :(

Actually this makes the Transformers movies look better, at least the Decepticons were IN them

they coulda given it the josie treatment of course, but it would be too much to hope for lightning to strike twice

in fact josie had the computer even

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=r7g8v8H3EGk

So in the second trailer, they reveal that Synergy is a little robot thingy dad invented that projects hologram video. Uh...okay Jon Chu, that fixes everything.

Synergy
http://40.media.tumblr.com/b66a3296db3e7e223f5dc3e6d6b289dd/tumblr_nszqw9aQ921qjzu71o1_500.jpg

...or Synergy?
http://cdn.movieweb.com/img.news.tops/NEO6OtT4sPpTSS_1_b.jpg

this is not looking promising

Trying is hard.

$2,028,755 over two weekends in more than 2,400 theaters. lol

My old roommate wrote it 😒

Under duress?

more important: was it actually written as a Jem script, or was that later grafted onto an ordinary tweens-in-a-band story to try and trick thirtysomethings who remember the show into taking their tots to this instead of Peanuts or Hotel Transylvania 2? trailer sure looked like the latter.

basically he works with the director alot via film school connection.. hasbro worked with them in the past on gi joe 2 and theyre trying to pimp out there IP for whatever they can get.. it was a low risk low reward move for them but I also think they fucked up in using Jem to appeal to millennials when the only people who get the IP is older folks who were confused and angry about the project from day 1. I guess there was the usual studio meddling and focus grouping that went on. tbf it tested well! lol

i will never see it so i am willing to extend all benefit of the doubt to your former roommate, and to the film - for all i know it could be a perfectly decent little story about some kids in a band dealing with fame and evil business people and stuff. the brand just seems like an albatross in this case. the original show, while liked, isn't that popular that you can count on 30-40-year-olds to roll out and see it in big enough numbers, especially if it looks nothing at all like the show they remember.

it would have been much smarter to try and launch a new show, IMO. something about the premise seems well set up for an episodic series of adventures, more or less like hannah montana if i understand things correctly. i always was under the impression jem fought crime and supervillains but wiki is telling me it was mostly music industry shenanigans and a lot of lois-and-clark-but-where-does-superman-fit-in stuff - well, that could be turned up a notch... but anyway i can see why they would shy away from doing a movie actually based on the show - it's a lot of work to set up a premise that's actually meant to keep a soap opera going, not a single story.

The dolls were expensive! They came with a cassingle of music too.

yeah it didn't make sense, it wasn't Jem for the 35+ year olds, and it wasn't Hannah Montana for the younger kids.. just misguided all around. then again it only cost 5 million to make.. .

i guess the girls and gay boys of the 80s are smarter that straight boys

Kesha appears in the post credits scene as Pizzazz. That almost makes it worth them making a sequel.

"Jem and the Holograms," the movie reboot of the popular late-1980s cartoon, opened in wide release October 23 and has done so poorly that Universal appears to be yanking it from theaters after only two weeks. Though the movie is still in approximately 50 screens, it has disappeared from most theaters, and Universal isn't reporting any box-office figures for it after last week.

kesha was supposed to be in the misfits in part 2, which is not happening so I dont have to worry about spilling secrets