Jem and the Holograms
Cut down in his prime, inventor and musician Emmett Benton (Barnaby Carpenter) had two daughters, Jerrica and Kimber (Aubrey Peeples, Stefanie Scott) that would grow to be a yin yang pair of creative musicians. So, when a video of Jerrica performing under the name Jem goes viral, it’s a race to hold on as the fame train leaves the station. Backed by Kimber and her adopted sisters Shana and Aja (Aurora Perrineau and Hayley Kiyoko) Jem is rocketed to astral heights; meanwhile, the dark edge of greedy talent manager Erica Raymond (Juliette Lewis) is busy working to squander the girl’s talents. Yet Jem, guided by a robot invention gift from her father will follow her own path to find herself and success, the question is, will she be too late? 
Truly Outrageous and based incredibly loosely on the animated show from the 80’s and 90’s Director Jon Chu does his best to make this sappy/emotional dreck work in an interesting fashion combining social media footage with cinematic footage to tell an overall story. Mixed with moments of High School musical and actually halfway decent pop songs, for the young aspiring musicians in your life a basic positive message lives inside, you could do worse, for the rest of us, pass. Jem and the Holograms is rated PG.