History Film / JemAndTheHolograms

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* YouDontLookLikeYou: The movie's Synergy, a RobotBuddy is a far cry from the show's, who was a hologram who served as TheObiWan.

* CreatorCameo: [[spoiler: Christy Marx, creator of the original cartoon, cameos near the end as Lind-Z]]

** Jem's secret identity is makes no sense as not only is there no reason for her to hide her identity or any reason for anyone not to know who she really is.

* JustEatGilligan: In order to fix Synergy, Jem and her friend need to get Jem's earrings back from Erica Raymond's safe. So they sneak into the building and break into the safe, despite the fact that, in addition to a number of reasons to why they wouldn't need to sneak into the building, there's no reason why they could't just ask Erica to give them back the earrings as she has no reason to want to keep them. This only happens so that [[spoiler:they can find Rio's father's will that explains that he's the real owner of Starlight Records.]]

* ParentalFavoritism: Jerrica's father final message to his daughters is a speech about much he loves Jerrica, without ever even mentioning Kimber by name.

* InstantWebHit: Jerrica became one of the world's biggest celebrities thanks to a video of her playing acoustic guitar in her bedroom. Strangely enough, said video only had 36,000 views.

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'''''Jem and the Holograms''''' is a 2015 film ''very'' loosely based on [[WesternAnimation/JemAndTheHolograms the '80s cartoon of the same name]]. It was made with a budget of [[NoBudget $5 million]],[[note]] For reference, ''Film/{{Moon}}'' had a budget of $5 million. [[/note]] and took some... [[InNameOnly creative liberties]] with its source material. The film centers on Jerrica Benton, who gets popular when her sister Kimber uploads a video of her singing to YouTube. This leads to Jerrica and her sisters getting a recording contract. Also, there's a little robot named Synergy, whose parts are scattered all over the place.

!!Provides Examples Of:
* CreatorCameo: [[spoiler: Christy Marx creator of the original cartoon cameos near the end as Lind-Z]]

* ManipulativeEditing: The film features a number of YouTube videos of people talking how much they love Jem. These are from a contest the film held asking fans to make videos about why they love the series, meaning they were talking about any other incarnation of the series but this one.

* JustEatGilligan: In order to fix Synergy, Jem and her friend need to get Jem's earrings back from Erica Raymond's safe. So they sneak into the building and break into the safe, despite the fact that, in addition to a number of reasons to why they wouldn't need to sneak into the building, there's no reason why they could't just ask Erica to give them back the earrings as she has no reason to want to keep them. This only happens so that the can find Rio's father's will that explains that he's the real owner of Starlight Records.

'''''Jem and the Holograms''''' is a 2015 film ''very'' loosely based on [[WesternAnimation/JemAndTheHolograms the '80s cartoon of the same name]]. It was made with a budget of [[NoBudget $5 million]],[[note]] For reference, ''Film/{{Moon}}'' had a budget of $5 million. [[/note]] and took some... creative liberties with its source material. The film centers on Jerrica Benton, who gets popular when her sister Kimber uploads a video of her singing to YouTube. This leads to Jerrica and her sisters getting a recording contract. Also, there's a little robot named Synergy, whose parts are scattered all over the place.

%% * YouDontLookLikeYou: The movie's [[RobotBuddy Synergy]] is a far cry from the show's [[TheObiWan Synergy]].

'''''Jem and the Holograms''''' is a 2015 film ''very'' loosely based on [[WesternAnimation/JemAndTheHolograms the '80s cartoon of the same name]]. It was made with a budget of [[NoBudget $5 million]],[[note]] For reference, ''Film/ItFollows'' had a budget of $2 million. [[/note]] and took some... creative liberties with its source material. The film centers on Jerrica Benton, who gets popular when her sister Kimber uploads a video of her singing to YouTube. This leads to Jerrica and her sisters getting a recording contract. Also, there's a little robot named Synergy, whose parts are scattered all over the place.

* DistaffCounterpart: Many note how the film is less of a ''Jem'' movie and more of a gender-swapped Music/JustinBieber movie. Also helping the comparison is director Jon M. Chu directed two documentaries about Bieber and having Bieber's manager Scooter Braun produce the movie.

* InformedAttribute: Jem and the Holograms are said to be the biggest pop stars in the world. In spite of this, largely due to the NoBudget nature of the movie biting the movie in the ass, we only see the band play in a small club and a warehouse to a handful of people.

'''''Jem and the Holograms''''' is a 2015 film ''very'' loosely based on [[WesternAnimation/JemAndTheHolograms the '80s cartoon of the same name]]. It was made with a budget of $5 million, and took some... creative liberties with its source material. The film centers on Jerrica Benton, who gets popular when her sister Kimber uploads a video of her singing to YouTube. This leads to Jerrica and her sisters getting a recording contract. Also, there's a little robot named Synergy, whose parts are scattered all over the place.

'''''Jem and the Holograms''''' is a 2015 film ''[[InNameOnly very]]'' loosely based on [[WesternAnimation/JemAndTheHolograms the '80s cartoon of the same name]]. It was made with a budget of $5 million, and took some... [[AdaptedOut creative]] liberties with its source material. The film centers on Jerrica Benton, who gets popular when her sister Kimber uploads a video of her singing to YouTube. This leads to Jerrica and her sisters getting a recording contract. Also, there's a little robot named [[YouDontLookLikeYou Synergy]], whose parts are scattered all over the place.

The movie is currently doing very poorly in the box office, getting scathing reviews from fans and reviewers alike. It had the [[BoxOfficeBomb third worst opening weekend]] of a first-run film debuting in more than 2,000 theaters[[labelnote:*]]Only ''WesternAnimation/{{Delgo}}'' and ''Film/TheOogielovesInTheBigBalloonAdventure'' performed worse...unlike Jem, they were independent releases with very little advertising.[[/labelnote]]. The drastic changes made to the source material ended up alienating longtime fans, while also being so bland that it failed to attract any new fans.

* YouDontLookLikeYou: The movie's [[RobotBuddy Synergy]] is a far cry from the show's [[TheObiWan Synergy]].

The movie is currently doing very poorly in the box office, getting scathing reviews from fans and reviewers alike. The drastic changes made to the source material ended up alienating longtime fans, while also being so bland that it failed to attract any new fans.

'''''Jem and the Holograms''''' is a 2015 film ''[[InNameOnly very]]'' loosely based on [[WesternAnimation/JemAndTheHolograms the '80s cartoon of the same name]]. It was made with a budget of $5 million, and took some... [[AdaptedOut creative]] liberties with its source material.

The film centers on Jerrica Benton, who gets popular on YouTube, and then gets a recording contract. Also, there's a little robot named [[YouDontLookLikeYou Synergy]], whose parts are scattered all over the place.

* TheyJustDidntCare: It's very easy to tell that this movie was made with a low budget. It uses archival footage for celebrity cameos, features fan-made YouTube videos (some of which have merchandise from the '80s ''Jem'' in the background), and Google Earth is used for [[TravelMontage Travel Montages]]

* AdaptedOut: The Misfits, rival band to the Holograms, are noticeably absent
* GenderFlip: Eric Raymond is now a woman named Erica
* InNameOnly: The movie has little, if anything, to do with the show

'''''Jem and the Holograms''''' is a 2015 film ''very'' loosely based on [[WesternAnimation/JemAndTheHolograms the '80s cartoon of the same name]]. It was made with a budget of $5 million, and took some... [[AdaptedOut creative]] liberties with its source material.