Josie and the Pussycats (film): Difference between revisions

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There was a ''huge'' legal brawl with [[Archie Comics]] over them getting residuals and/or royalties from the movie. The film was a box office failure, and its lack of success did lasting damage to Rachael Leigh Cook's film career (as of 2010 she has yet to play the lead role in another major film; keep in mind that this is the same Rachael Leigh Cook who voiced [[Final Fantasy 7|Tifa]]), but it has become something of a cult hit on VHS and DVD.
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=== This movie provides examples of the following tropes: ===
* [[An Aesop]]... [[Spoof Aesop|or several dozen]]: "[[Lampshade Hanging|So, what's the moral of the story here]]? [[Family-Unfriendly Aesop|Freaks should date other freaks]]?" "No, I think the moral of the story here is you should be happy with who you are. This whole time we've been spending all this money on expensive clothes trying to impress people, it never made ''me'' happy. No... no, oh my gosh, happiness is on the inside. I'm not ''this'', I'm not what I wear. ''I'm not what I wear!'' You should think about this."
* [[As Himself]]: [[MTV]] VJ Carson Daly makes a brief appearance where he tries to kill Melody and Valerie on a fake ''TRL'' set. The scene becomes funnier if you know that, at the time the film was made, [[Reality Subtext|Carson was dating Tara Reid]]. [[American Pie|Eugene Levy]] also hosts the instructional video describing why [[Subliminal Advertising]] is so important to the economy, and MTV News anchor Serena Altschul makes an appearance.