Kimber decides to upload the video on YouTube instead billing it as simply a song by "Jem", and it becomes an instant sensation- the uncertainty of exactly who this Jem is just makes it even more sensational as people speculate just who she could be.
Jerrica plays around with a camera in her bedroom and records a mellow song on the guitar, but doesn't think much of it and hands the camera off to her sister to delete the song and try something else herself. All four of the girls have a bit of musical talent and they occasionally shoot music videos of themselves, but they haven't been seeking fame and fortune yet.Īunt Bailey soon has money problems and might lose her house, which drives the girls to do something to help out. (In the original story, the aunt ran a foster home with several girls.) While Jem is rather low-key, Kimber loves attention and puts herself all over social media including Instagram and YouTube. After his death she and her sister Kimber (Stefanie Scott) went to live with their aunt Bailey (80s icon and Sacramento native Molly Ringwald) and her two foster daughters Aja (Hayley Kiyoko) and Shana (Aurora Perrineau). She was given the nickname Jem by her late father, an inventor, who said that she was his "diamond in the rough". While the cartoon Jerrica was sort of a singing Barbie doll, here she's a much more everyday person.
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The approach here is similar to that of another animated girl-group, Josie and the Pussycats, who got their live-action incarnation back in 2001- the filmmakers don't try to literally put the cartoons into a live-action world, but instead treat them more like real people, taking a few creative liberties and of course update a few things to the present day.Īs in the original cartoon, Jem is the stage name of Jerrica Benton, played here by Aubrey Peeples.
Nevertheless, there's been a bit of nostalgia for it 30 years later and the next logical step was to adapt it into a live-action movie.
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Grossing even less money at the box office than record-setting bomb We Are Your Friends, Jem and the Holograms was an attempt to find cinematic success in another Hasbro Toys property after Transformers and its sequels sold many tickets (despite not being very good movies.) Similar to Transformers, Jem started out as a series of dolls followed by a syndicated TV show with jerky animation said by many to exist just to sell the toys.