Monster Crap Inductee: Spice World (1997)

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In the mid-90s, before the boy band craze and attractive teenage girl craze hit us like a brick in the late 90s, there was this big British act that hit the scene screaming “Girl Power” known as the Spice Girls, comprised of Baby Spice, Ginger Spice, Posh Spice, Scary Spice, and Sporty Spice. And of course, they were a huge smash for their time with several hit songs so of course with many musical acts that hit it so big that you can’t escape them even if you wanted to, you get a movie made about you.

Okay, I’m going to be honest here. At the beginning of the Spice Girls reign of fame, I did not hate them. I mean, I didn’t love them. But I tolerated them, especially since it was an easy way to get annoy my brother as he had that phase where he wanted to hear Hanson’s “MmmBop” all the damn time. Yeah, Spice Girls were my freaking payback as he couldn’t stand them. Also, I had a bit of an attraction for Ginger Spice.

However, even they got to a point to where I could not stand them anymore and by the time this Spice World movie came out, I was long past that period. Also, every freaking trailer of this movie sent huge red flags that said to me “You really don’t want to see this film.”

And because they were a big deal in the UK (as well as the US, but UK was their home), they could basically get almost anyone around there to be in their little film if they wanted them so of course, you got names like Roger Moore, Elvis Costello, Bob Geldoff, Stephen Fry, Elton John, Richard O’Brien, Alan Cumming, George Wendt, Hugh Laurie, among many other big celebrities that were in the UK at the time.