It's a plot change and modernization. In the original she/her father owns Starlight, in this she doesn't, which of course changes the plot. I'll see it, and I'll probably enjoy it :)
ronniemation Well.... Perhaps there are some people who have no knowledge of the cartoon from the 80's. Perhaps they have idea that this movie is suppose to be based on anything. Just a theory that might explain some of the people, not necessarily all of them.
***** of course I know about the cartoon! I used to watch it. It is actually my name and I enjoy the cartoon, but not this movie judging by the trailer. My comment wasn't serious so calm your shit.
more like Jem and the Instagrams. I bet the Misfits are just a group of girls they get into tweet flame wars with on twitter. Actually was half expecting that robot to say "lets take a yolo swag selfie" with dubstep blaring out of it's rear. Jem is truly truly basic, whoah uh ohhh.
cory you This comment is the best thing to come out of this trailer. In fact, if they were to make it blatantly topical and modern rather than pretending as if the shit they have is an actual great and original story even remotely relevant to the original in anything other than name only- they'd have something great- a parody, but still.
InfiniteRandom I'm convinced this has to be some sort of social experiment to randomly pick cult following childhood franchises and transform them into the worst possible interpretations. I half jokingly say Zach Efron's "We Are Your Friends" might as well be Thundercats
Thanks for recreating something that isn't even the real story. They totally just modernized it. I'm upset now, I was really looking forward to it and now I don't know.
The absolute worst part of the trailers so far in my opinion has been the music. Whoever composed for the cartoons was brilliant at writing short, catchy numbers that stick in your head and you can remember, even 20 years later.The music in these trailers is so bland and uninspired.
Nate Alexander They're involved in a dispute with Hasbro over royalties as I understand. There's simply none of the original talent involved and the replacements are far from up to par.
Nate Alexander Jemmm is truly outrageous truly truly truly outrageous whoaaahhh Jemmm the musics contagious outrageous Jem is my name no one else is the same Jem is my name. We are the Misfits are songs are better we are the Misfits and we're gonna get her, Jemmm. Yup still stuck in my brain.
Nate Alexander Yeah... I have pretty much the entirety of the discography from the show. I shamelessly blast it when I feel like listening to it while driving.
***** It also re-aired in the early 90's, 92-93, I believe, on the USA Network. So, it can also be close to 20 years, dependent upon where people last watched it, and when, because it did air on the Hub for a while, too.
Me ''Hey Mom new Jem Trailer this time they show synergy Mom ''Oh really cool can't wait to see her brought to life with todays effects Me (Plays Trailer) Mom NOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO!!! Me (Evil smile)
You guys shouldn't be upset about trailers like this. They're great money-savers -- why bother paying money to watch this movie that has practically nothing to do with the 80s cartoon when the trailer just showed you exactly what's going to happen? Money saved, time not wasted.
Jenna Rizzo If you read the replies, I think pretty much the only positive comments are coming from those fans; like somehow Jem is going to miraculously turn into a final One Direction movie. Fat chance they will remove the only source of likes this trailer has :D
Let's petition this!!! I Although... If one direction can get zayn to leave, surely we can get rid of the other 4 and just do away with these group all together..which would be much better! ;)
What did they ever do to you? Just because you don't like their music doesn't mean you should try and make them stop making it. They have fans. You just aren't one of them.
***** uh, exqueeze me? my childhood is never gone. just because i'm a fine wine or shall i say ripe for the picking, does NOT mean my childhood is as any less than you, child! and if you wanna diss 30 years ago, don't use a great moment in time during my years to make this crap for brain dead girls like you
younguy1979 This movie looks terrible, but it honestly, saying that it ruins the original really cheapens it. This movie may suck, but 80's Jem still happened and it was still awesome. Plus the comics are kinda kick ass.
I dont think saying it "ruined" the 80's cartoon is to be taking literally. Like i know as a fan of the 80's series n growing up with it, hearing that the movie was being made got me so excited. But then to find out they made a crap.movie that's not based on what we grew up on ruined my hopes for enjoying it and hopes of seeing what I enjoyed as a child come to life ruined. At least thats how i feel.
Florence MacKenna The past has its moments. I think it's the idea that we're in an age where properties from the past can be cinemized, but the fact that marketing strategy determines the way a property will be handled is messing things up royally. GI Joe has its way, but marketing determined another and so forth and so on.
Kiersten Lazaneo You can actually get some that look like the ones from the cartoon on Ebay for crying out loud! The people behind this didn't do any research at all and it all looks thrown together smh.
Well, we know the whole story. She gets "internet famous", she signs a solo contract, her group breaks up, she realizes she wants to get back in the group. Thanks, trailer, for showing the entire story.
Outrageous...truly, truly, truly outrageous.. No Misfits, they turned Synergy into Echo and the trailer gives away the whole movie. I'll just rent Josie and The Pussycats off of Netflix. At least the humor was intentional in that.
So the formula they're following here is: 1. Take a show with huge nostalgia factor. 2. Rip out all nostalgia-generating aspects (music, characters, etc) that people love. 3. Profit?
After watching this trailer I now realize that being famous can be hard. Sometimes you have to remember your roots and where you come from. Always trust your heart and your loved ones. ... ...and never watch this kind of bullshit movie unless you are being tortured to death by some albino asian guy while in an internment camp. Living in pig shit would be better than having this movie forced upon you. Seriously, WTF? Evil record companies that make you choose between your friends and family and the success that said record companies could afford you? How about the horrible abuse from Hollywood on old properties that nobody gives a flying fuck about being made into a movie? And then mass marketed on a zero intelligence generation that thinks KimYe is the standard to how to be successful persons. Synergy should have come to life, helped Jem become famous, and then revealed itself to be Skynet and THAT WOULD HAVE BEEN A BETTER MOVIE!!
in the cartoon, Jem was Jerrica Benton's, head of the record company Starlight Music, rock star persona. She became Jem by using micro hologram projectors in the form of earrings. These projectors were part of a larger AI system called "Synergy", a program created by her father that could create realistic holograms.
I know, right?! Jem can be EASILY updated while keeping a similar plot to the original! Here it looks like they took the script to the Josie and the Pussycats movie, took away the (somewhat funny) "subliminal messages" plot and slapped the Jem name on it. Not to mention Synergy has been downgraded form one of the most advanced computer systems in history to a glorified holographic projector. It's sad, honestly.
Elisa Stahl-Biener No. She was Hannah Montana for the 80's. And guess what this movie is? Hannah Montana for today. I think people are mad at this trailer because it's making them realize just how utterly stupid their so-called favorite show actually was.
Thank you I would like to take my son to see Jan and the Hologram, he enjoy the Jan cartoon series which I still have on VHS from my own childhoods. This is part of the joy of being a father, to share with your child! I am impress how authentic the film look to the cartoon versions! Thank you we will be first in line!
Synergy is toy robot now. I haven't seen a misrepresentation of a character since....SINCE TURNING BUMBLEBEE INTO A WALKING JUKEBOX! Jeez Hasbro, pull out! Your own repute on is on the line! 😡😡😡
Drixenol86 To be fair, Bumblebee didn't have much character in G1. The only characters that had any personality were Optimus, Megatron, and Starscream.
+Josh Sinclair He was my favorite character in G1. That's why I hated what they did to him. They could've made him a better character but they chose not to.
Josh Sinclair Bumblebee in G1 was a close friend to Spike/Sam. They replicated that in the movies, but they made it worse by giving Bee zero personality. A lot of his "radio speak" was hard to listen to
The problem with G1 was that it had too many characters to keep track of and a few of them didn't get fleshed out personalities. One of the reasons why I preferred "Beast Wars," "Animated," and "Prime" was because they went with quality over quantity.
Wait Synergy is a handicapped robot? Huh? What? The holograms are home videos of her dead father? They keep saying "Wait you have to see the 2nd trailer, and the movie" Well I see the 2nd trailer and you gave me a robot that projects holograms of dead dads. ????? You released a tribute album that was terrible.
Clearly the scenes with Synergy were added in because we, the fans, complained that the movie looked nothing like the original cartoon. Just like with Ninja Turtles and Fantastic Four.
...and yet look how many young teen girls are saying "I'm going to see it! It looks cool!" Why? Because this is that same "I'm gonna be a rock star/princess!" movie they keep shoveling out to young women every year. All the same cliches. Sudden fame and glamour, primary character becomes selfish and loses touch with what's important, she's reminded of family/friends being more important than fame, she apologizes but still ends the movie with EVERYTHING: Family, friends AND Fame! YAY! Everybody hug and then we'll play another song for you to go out and buy on iTunes!!!
And this, people, is the prime example of how Hollywood thinks you are stupid, and that's because you are. No matter what you say about their movies and ideas, you keep going to see every piece of shit movie they spawn instead of proving them wrong.
This nothing like the 80's cartoon. Where is Rio? Her freaking BF?!?! She was the owner of starlight. (The foster place) if you look it up on Netflix there are a ton of episodes. This is so not the movie. I actually thought that this movie would be like the real thing. But apparently theater does not know good movies or shows when they see it. Like if you agree.
0:44 - My God, every time I hear that _"Whoo, we're gonna be famoooooooohs!"_, I feel as if a little dwarf was dangling from my balls! 0:44 - That's Britta Phillips, right? The original singing voice of Jem?
***** That would be about right. Yet I don't think they gave a similar cameo role to the original spoken voice of Jem, and a musician in her own right, Samantha Newark.
Jem Direction: Best of both Worlds The Movie This really did not need to have Jem & The Holograms in it, could've been any other band and the "plot" would've been the same.
This is nothing like the 80's cartoon, don't even waste your time. So many fans are upset because this literally something else Hollywood bull shitted.
Where is Synergy, the misfits, the love triangle between Jem/Jessica and Rio, the evil manager that try to take over starlight ? And is it Katty Perry singing ? Its just a musical girly movie for teenagers.
Why does the new "Synergy" look like Roadkill Rodney from the TMNT arcade game? This movie will probably do moderately well, but it's sad that a new generation won't know HOW EFFING EPIC and AHEAD OF IT'S TIME the original Jem was.
+Rubén Gómez Radioboy it wasnt a masterpiece but we're not talking about the cartoon here smartass. besides, do you see any new Jem cartoon on tv this past 30 years?
+Rubén Gómez Radioboy owh gee, uh hyuck hyuck. im soo stupid. I cant read and comprehend. ruben's soo smart because he' good at trollings other peoples comment threads.
But I do like that they basically showed the entire crappy film in this trailer, it means the studio doesn't have much faith in it. Hope it flops and they learn not to fuck with 80s pop culture unless they have the balls to do it faithfully.
really?!! why?! TT_TT they changed so much of the original story, it would be like if they changed batman' s origin from being about a Billionaire who loses his parents as a kid and becomes a super hero as a adult. To a teenage kid in high school that decides to become a detective to impress a girl and gets help from a cellphone his grandpa left him. it has nothing to do with the original story anymore, they are not even that same characters. that's what they did with this movie.
Do you know fucking COOL it would've been if they just went with the stupid premise for the original show? If they played that straight, and did new things with it, that would've been awesome! But instead we're going to get commentary on how bad the music industry is... commentary we can ALL relate to, I'm sure...
I found Jem & the holograms on Netfilx, and lived it!!! And I was so excited to see there was a movie for it but not so much anymore Where are the Misfits and the kids they took care of?!!?!!?!?!
What is wrong with these people?? If they say they're going to do a movie based on a series then they should follow through. They need to do more than just the names of the characters!!! I mean seriously, this was a great show with amazing and inspiring storylines AND characters and they just chopped and mixed it all up in a blender and came out with this sorry excuse for a movie. I know this is Hollywood and we can't always expect so much but still. They couldn't follow the show word for word but they could at least make the effort and stick to the plot line to begin with.
Looks like they made some changes from the original trailer after all the bad feedback. I still have no interest in this movie, but really would have gone for a real Jem and Holograms movie. They could have updated and kept a lot of the originality. They should have consulted with the original creator instead of having a few know-nothing frat boys making a movie like this.
So this doesn't look like a good movie period, but when it flops the producers will just say "welp, it's because it's an old 80s idea that doesn't fit in modern times"
David Curry Would it be any comfort to you knowing there is a Jem and the Holograms comic series being published by IDW Publishing? Hear other fans of the old Jem and the Holograms cartoon are enjoying the comic books. Here is a link to an article from USA Today talking about the comic book series. www.usatoday.com/story/life/2015/03/24/jem-and-the-holograms-exclusive-preview/70388814/
This is so awful. This should have been a completely separate film with no attempts to tie it into Jem, because as a Jem film it looks like completely horrible. As a stand alone tween film it would probably be somewhat adequate.
Okay I'm only 13 but I've watched many episodes of JEM. So where are the misfits, where is practically everything?? I'm pretty sure Synergy wasn't a tiny little robot.
What the hell is with the robot? It's so out of place, it's like if Fault In Our Stars had a subplot about aliens, it just sticks out like a sore thumb. Did the 80's cartoon have a robot? Cause this looks less like a movie about Jem and more a movie about Robin Sparkles.
It's like a prequel/high school AU fanfic of Jem. This could turn out pretty good or really really bad. I might watch it online out of curiosity and if I like it I will support it but if it is bad I'll just forget it exists.
Dirge version of the old theme song: Is Jem excitement? Is Jem adventure? Glamour and glitter.... Fashion and fame... Jem... Are you truly ourageous? Truly, truly, truly outrageous?
Where are the earrings Jerrica uses to turn into Jem? And where is Eric Raymond and the Misfits? This movie is gonna be worse than the Fantastic Four reboot.
