Friday, November 22, 2024 Text is available under the CC BY-SA 3.0 licence.

Roger Ebert

« All quotes from this author
 

The Spice Girls are easier to tell apart than the Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles, but that is small consolation: What can you say about five women whose principal distinguishing characteristic is that they have different names? They occupy Spice World as if they were watching it: They're so detached they can't even successfully lip-synch their own songs. During a rehearsal scene, their director tells them, with such truth that we may be hearing a secret message from the screenwriter, "That was absolutely perfect — without being actually any good." Spice World is obviously intended as a ripoff of A Hard Day's Night which gave The Beatles to the movies...the huge difference, of course, is that the Beatles were talented — while, let's face it, the Spice Girls could be duplicated by any five women under the age of 30 standing in line at Dunkin' Donuts.
--
Review of Spice World (23 January 1998)

 
Roger Ebert

» Roger Ebert - all quotes »



Tags: Roger Ebert Quotes, Authors starting by E


Similar quotes

 

When I was 14 or 15 I was into the whole Spice Girls and I was a huge fan, but two years ago I heard The Beatles, Led Zeppelin, Bob Dylan and Joni Mitchell and I was like - f**king hell, I've been born in the wrong bloody decade!

 
Katie Melua
 

"But let me ask you this though, first and foremost: who's your favorite Spice Girl? Mine is Sporty Spice and I'll tell you why. You know what? She might not be as aesthetically pleasant as the rest but she'll do a backflip and steal your heart."

 
Janeane Garofalo
 

I am the only man who can say he's been in Take That and at least two members of the Spice Girls.

 
Robbie Williams
 

Being in the Spice Girls was an insane experience.

 
Melanie Chisholm
 

I have a person that I want to win obviously, and I don't think that's a mystery. On the other hand, if he doesn't win, if the other guy wins – if the guy who's running with Bible Spice wins – [applause] if John McBush and Bible Spice win, we have to find a way to come together as a country, because we can't let it be the way it’s been the last 8 years where there's been this acrimony and this bitterness.

 
Sarah Palin
© 2009–2013Quotes Privacy Policy | Contact