Can the Spice Girls act beyond their assigned personas? World doesn't stop spinning long enough to answer.

| Original Score: 1.5/4 | Jan 9, 2018

"What's the plot?" you may be asking. Well so am I.

| Jun 21, 2016

A promotional tool that establishes its superfluousness simply by existing, this clumsy, smirking movie has a bitter soul.

| Jun 21, 2016

Full of silly, swirling fantasy sequences and breezy backstage glimpses into their ``lives'' - not to mention an album's worth of new tunes - Spice World offers a fanciful view of fame and female camaraderie in the fabulous '90s.

| Original Score: 2.5/4 | Jun 21, 2016

Spice World is a smart vehicle for the Girls, a cheerful and occasionally witty self-parody that does for the Spices what Help! and A Hard Day's Night did for the Beatles.

| Original Score: 2/4 | Jun 21, 2016

A movie about four months too late to endure in the pop-culture annals and about four stars too short to be a four-star movie.

| Jun 21, 2016

As an example of pop-culture debris, Spice World is absolutely perfect. Without, of course, being any good.

| Jun 21, 2016

The result is tiresome and a blown opportunity to launch the group to an entirely new audience. And I suspect those who already are fans will learn nothing new about their "Girl Power" heroes.

| Original Score: 1/4 | Jun 21, 2016

Spice World is about as awful and shamelessly pandering as a fanzine movie could dare to be.

| Jun 21, 2016

Spice World will delight the Fab Five's pre-pubescent fans, recall fond memories of the '60s to those who actually lived through them, and be forgotten within six months.

| Jul 22, 2008

Spiers' pseudo-documentary bubble-and-squeak allows the girls to dress up, dress down, change identities, ride around in a Union Jack bus, rub shoulders with a large cameo cast, and indulge in vacuous banter. Help!

| Jun 24, 2006

The Spice Girls play themselves with no particular distinction.

| Nov 20, 2003

It's the Spice Girls' music that is the movie's reason for being. It is fast-paced and upbeat, and the movie sags noticeably between songs.

| Nov 6, 2002

Some of the gags are a riot.

| Original Score: 4/4 | Jun 18, 2002

Critic-proof, devoid of plot or acting, and quick to mock anyone who might make something of it.

Full Review | Original Score: 2.5/4 | Apr 12, 2002

If the Spice Girls don't precisely act here, they do give extroversion a good name.

| Jan 1, 2000

Is there a plot sandwiched between the numerous costume changes? Actually, there are several non sequitur subplots woven together -- and that, along with a dearth of acting talent, is Spice World's biggest flaw.

| Jan 1, 2000

Full Review | Original Score: 2/4 | Jan 1, 2000

Unfortunately, longtime BBC director Spiers can't seem to build up either any suspense or genuine hilarity along the way, making this one of the weaker semi-mockumentaries in a while.

| Original Score: 1.5/5 | Jan 1, 2000

Spice World" is obviously intended as a ripoff of A Hard Day's Night, which gave the Beatles to the movies. They should have ripped off more -- everything they could get their hands on.

| Original Score: 0.5/4 | Jan 1, 2000