YMMV / Spice World

• Awesome Moments: When Victoria and the two girls fall off the out of control boat, Mel C immediately jumps off to save them.
• Awesome Music: Given it's the Spice Girls, it's not surprising:
  • "Too Much": The opening intro with the song really pulls the fans in. It's not complete without it.
  • "Saturday Night Divas": The song itself is already one of the more overlooked song in their catalogue and the photoshoot and outfit swapping to it helps it to be used to great effect.
  • "Never Give Up on the Good Times": Plays during the beginning of the boot camp scene with the Girls getting into the music slowly is effectively done too.
• Big-Lipped Alligator Moment:
  • The girls stop the bus to pee in the bushes and run into a crew of aliens who want tickets to their show but it's sold out. The girls are completely unfazed by this and even sign autographs for the aliens.
  • A lot of the Imagine Spots can count too. Some manage to be plot relevant with Foreshadowing - the Agatha Christie style one building up Emma being Easily Forgiven for everything - but most are quite random.
• Cult Classic: Mainly for Spice Girls fans - especially those who were there for the mania of their peak - and 90s pop culture aficionados.
• Ham and Cheese:
  • Richard E. Grant can say he only did this film for the money and for his daughter, but he was clearly having a good time doing it.
  • Michael Barrymore as dance instructor Mr. Step, gorging himself on the scenery just for kicks.
  • The girls themselves are obviously having the time of their lives, not taking the material too seriously.
• Harsher in Hindsight:
  • The girls are annoyed at their manager for not giving them time off, to the point where they (temporarily) walk out of their tour. The group would later sack their manager, partially for this reason.
  • The Actor Allusion references to Ginger's topless model days aren't quite as funny after her surgery to remove a benign tumour. Geri Halliwell avidly supports breast cancer charities.
• Hilarious in Hindsight:
  • The scene where the girls imagine what they'd be like as mothers, now that all of the girls have their own children (a total of nine, in fact). Especially the case with Victoria Beckham, who says "Thank God for boarding school" in this scene, but by all accounts is a very hands-on mother to her four kids.
  • Tomorrow Never Dies, the James Bond film that came out that same year, also deals with an evil media mogul. Spice World's titles also kind of look like a parody of the typical James Bond opening titles. (And Geri would unsuccessfully audition for The World Is Not Enough not long after.)
  • The Imagine Spot with Stephen Fry as a judge sentencing the girls to obscurity ends with him summoning Gary Barlow to the stand. At the time the movie was made Barlow was seen as completely washed up after Take That broke up. Since then the band has reformed and Barlow's career completely rebounded. So much for obscurity.
• It's Not Supposed to Win Oscars: In the Giving You Everything documentary, Victoria said that nobody was expecting to win Oscars for the film, they were just having a good time.
• Moe: Emma of course. As 'Baby Spice', she actually exploits her huggable cuteness with the power of her smile.
• Narm Charm: No one disputes it's a terrible movie but for nostalgic reasons, any young'un now cannibalizing their youth in search of amusement can still reasonably enjoy the trip back through the 90s with the girls.
• Nightmare Fuel: That scene with the aliens qualifies. They looked creepy and their voices sounded almost like the deadites from the Evil Dead trilogy. Whose idea was that? Turns into a bit of Nightmare Retardant once they start fanning out over the girls.
• One-Scene Wonder: Stephen Fry as the judge sentencing the girls for releasing a single much less good than their previous ones.
  Judge: Melvin B, Emma, Melvin C, Victoria, Geri (pronounced with hard G), you have been found guilty of releasing a single which is by no means as kicking as your previous records, nor does it have such a wicked, fat, dirty, bassline. You are sentenced to having your next record enter the charts at number 179, before dropping straight out the following week. Furthermore, you are sentenced to twenty years of having to appear on cheesy chat shows in Taiwan, talking about how you used to be famous. And may God have mercy on your lip gloss. (Bangs gavel) Call Gary Barlow.
• Questionable Casting: Any viewer outside the demographic will laugh or weep at the sight of so many great British actors in this film.
• Quirky Work: The lead mentions A Hard Day's Night, but the execution is more Head, a Random Events Plot filled with surreal sequences (not all of them being fantasies!).
• Retroactive Recognition:
  • Dominic West is the photographer.
  • Toshiko Sato is the girls' pregnant friend.
  • Fans of English football may recognize an unusually lanky young man who appears in a concert audience early in the film as Peter Crouch, who would go on to play for the English national team a decade later.
• She Really Can Act: Victoria was actually trained in musical theatre before she auditioned for the band (in fact auditioning with "Mein Herr" from Cabaret rather than a pop song), so she had more acting experience than the others. Her comic timing provides many of the film's funniest moments.
• Signature Scene: The aliens attempting to get tickets for the girls' concert and then having them sign autographs is remembered most for its sheer randomness.
• So Bad, It's Good: Perhaps not as notorious as The Room or Plan 9 from Outer Space (to the point that it can almost feel like a Forced Meme), but it's not uncommon for people to jokingly refer to this movie as a "cinematic masterpiece", usually accompanied by a purposefully unflattering clip.
• Special Effect Failure: When the film producers are discussing the idea of the Spice Bus flying over the half-open Tower Bridge, a clearly fake model of the bridge and bus is used, with the comment that it's not necessarily expensive.
• Took the Bad Film Seriously: Roger Moore for the most part plays his brief role very straight.
• Unintentional Period Piece: The Spice Girls — at least, their most famous line-up, since they carried on for a few more years after Geri Halliwell quit — were only around for about two years in the late 90s, so this movie automatically dates itself to that point in time when they were worldwide sensations.

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