The Express review of Jem and the Holograms

The new live-action movie is based on an animated tv series.

Review: The dumb-but-fun 'Jem and the Holograms' wisely plays it straight [in print as There's still magic in those earrings].

By Kristen Page-Kirby
Express October 23 2015
https://www.washingtonpost.com/express/wp/2015/10/23/review-the-dumb-but-fun-jem-and-the-holograms-wisely-plays-it-straight/

The Post didn't review it, but did blog on it:

‘Jem and the Holograms’ and a lesson in botched nostalgia

By Emily Yahr
Washington Post Style Blog October 23 2015
https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/style-blog/wp/2015/10/23/jem-and-the-holograms-and-a-lesson-in-botched-nostalgia/

Here's the NY Times on it:

Review: 'Jem and the Holograms' Are Shadows of Their Former Selves

By NEIL GENZLINGER

A version of this review appears in print on October 23, 2015, on page C9 of the New York edition with the headline: Mere Shadows of the Holograms They Used to Be.

http://www.nytimes.com/2015/10/23/movies/review-jem-and-the-holograms-are-shadows-of-their-former-selves.html

Jem (Aubrey Peeples) and Erica (Juliette Lewis) regret that tanning session. (Universal Pictures)