Josie and the Pussycats: A Misunderstood Satire

Everyone expected the 2001 live-action version of Josie and the Pussycats to be an overly-commercial, corporate-product-shilling movie. And, well, it was -- but intentionally so, and as a deliberate, multilayered satirical joke. Yet, the way critics and audiences at the time seemed to willfully ignore the movie’s own obvious joke -- leading to its infamous critical and commercial failure -- reveals surprising truths about our own perceptions and how they can completely blind us from seeing what a movie is saying, no matter how obvious.

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Second Chance looks at media, concepts, and characters that have been deemed bad, disappointing, or divisive in some way by critics or the general public -- and tries to dig into the positives through academic and analytical (and entertaining!) video essays. Whether it’s a misunderstood masterpiece, a case of good intent vs. poor execution, or it poses useful insights on our culture as a whole, we'll figure out why and how it might actually be GOOD. So let’s dive in with an open mind, have fun, and give some of our old punching bags another shot!

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“Voyage” by IvPem is licensed under Creative Commons Attribution CC BY-SA 3.0: http://bit.ly/1pawxfE
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