History Film / JemAndTheHolograms2015

** Erica convinces Jerrica to [[ConflictBall ditch her bandmates]] and sign a contract for a solo career, but even a cursory view of the signing scene reveals a number of errors. Multiple reviews have pointed out that there is no contract that would only need to be signed just on the front page - most modern contracts require the signer to read through the document and sign[=/=]initial each page so that they understand what is being said. No lawyer is present for the signing, and Jerrica apparently waives away any sort of royalties or income until an unspecified point in time after her tour is completed. Additionally, Jerrica simply signs the document as "Jem", her stage alias. Not only is this absurd, but it wouldn't even hold up in court - Jerrica could simply claim that the signature isn't hers.

** Several reviews pointed out that Jem's fame meant she had other ways to get the money to needed to save her aunt's house beside selling out to Erica. She could have avoided signing the contract with Erica completely and sold music on her own through a music provider like [=iTunes=], monetized her Youtube videos for the next month to start raising money, booked shows herself, or raised funds by selling autographs, other memorabilia or via a crowd-funding service.

* VoodooShark: The ending montage (whether by directorial intent or not) establishes that the 80's animated series apparently exists in this universe, as multiple fans are shown playing with Jem toys or have ''Jem and the Holograms'' posters in their rooms. While this is ostensibly done to establish how popular the live-action version of the character has become, it raises a number of unfortunate problems; namely, if Jem and the Holograms are established as an in-universe property, how does Erica expect to sign an act that calls themselves the exact same thing (more of an in-universe AshcanCopy) without running into legal problems?

* ButNotTooBlack: Shana is definitely black in the cartoon but is played by the biracial Creator/AuroraPerrineau.

* AdaptationalNiceGuy: While she's still pretty awful, Erica Raymond isn't quite the CorruptCorporateExecutive who regularly endangered the heroes' lives that her animated counterpart was.
* AdaptationalWimp: Synergy isn't exactly an ArtificialIntelligence or a ParentalSubstitute that Jem depended on like in the original cartoon, but more or less a wacky RobotBuddy.

** 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. More evidence is the fact that they showed off merchandise from the franchise, ''including the TV show'' playing in some of the videos.

* NeverGoingBackToPrison: While breaking into a pier after-hours, Aja worriedly declares that she can't go back to Julie. Many critics wished they could see the story behind that instead of the film.

** 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. What makes it even more amazing is how lazy it is. Not only are the people wearing merchandise from the cartoon, not only are they cosplaying as characters from the cartoon, but you can ''clearly see the cartoon playing in the background in some of the videos''!

* AdaptationPersonalityChange: Aja mentions going to juvvy. It's never mentioned ''why'' she went there, but it's still off for the stick-to-the-rules OnlySaneMan Aja from the cartoon.

* ButNotTooBlack: Shana is definitely black in the cartoon but is played by the bi-racial Creator/AuroraPerrineau.

* {{Ephebophile}}: Chris Pratt who claims in an interview that he dated the teenage Jem.[[note]]Taken out of context from a real life interview where he claimed he used to pretend to date his sister's Jem doll as a child.[[/note]]

* InformedAttribute: Jem and the Holograms are said to be the biggest pop stars in the world. In spite of this, largely due to the movie's [[NoBudget very low budget biting it in the ass]], we only see the band play in a small club and a warehouse to a handful of people. Meanwhile, Erica Raymond was mentioned in dialogue as somebody who creates soulless music. The audience never gets to see any of this.

* IronicEcho

* NeverGoingBackToPrison: While breaking into a pier after-hours, Aja worriedly declares that she can't go back to juvvy. Many critics wished they could see the story behind that instead of the film.

** Rio was latino in the cartoon but - as he's Erica's son now - he's presumably half latino like his actor Ryan Guzman (who is half-Mexican on his father's side).

** Roxy was Italian American in the cartoon, but is here Italian Korean.

* VoodooShark: The ending montage (whether by directorial intent or not) establishes that the 80's animated series apparently exists in this universe, as multiple fans are shown playing with Jem toys or have ''Jem and the Holograms'' posters in their rooms. While this is ostensibly done to establish how popular the live-action version of the character has become, it raises a number of unfortunate problems -- namely, if Jem and the Holograms are established as an in-universe property, how does Erica expect to sign an act that calls themselves the exact same thing (more of an in-universe AshcanCopy) without running into legal problems?

** Aja is the only Hologram who fully keeps her cartoon hair colour ([[YouGottaHaveBlueHair blue]]), with purple haired Shana having black hair in the film, and redheaded Kimber being a blonde. They do have streaks of their cartoon colours during a show, though, as a sort of MythologyGag.

''Jem and the Holograms'' is a 2015 film that is [[InNameOnly truly, truly,]] ''[[InNameOnly truly]]'' loosely based on [[WesternAnimation/JemAndTheHolograms the '80s cartoon of the same name]] and the very first film by Creator/{{Hasbro}}'s "Allspark Pictures" studio. It was made with a budget of $5 million and didn't even make half of that back before being unceremoniously pulled from theatres roughly two weeks later.

** 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. What makes it even more amazing is how lazy it is. Not only are the people wearing merchandise from the cartoon, not only are they cosplaying as characters from the cartoon, you can ''clearly see the cartoon playing in the background in some of the videos''!

* RemakeCameo: Samantha Newark, the original voice of Jerrica, makes a cameo as a hairstylist complimenting Jerrica's pink wig. Jem's singing voice Britta Philips also cameos as a stage manager.

** Rio is now the son of the owner of Starlight Enterprises.

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