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Seeing Double
Background Information: Seeing Double | The 4th & final studio album from S Club. |
DVD Extras: Seeing Double on disc has some exceedingly good value extras, including a fun interactive interview section, which allows you to select questions to be answered individually by the six. There are comprehensive fact files on the S Clubbers, a photo gallery & a tough interactive quiz too.
S Clubs Seeing Double will be best remembered as the film that marked the end of the band. Their demise wasnt caused by this film being particularly dire but rather their big-screen outing was the contractual glue, which kept the group together a little longer than they probably wished. Incorporating the standard pop movie themes, a control-freak manager, over-zealous fans & the stresses of living on the road, the film also makes the customary tongue-in-cheek references to the fragility of manufactured pop groups. Centred around the S Clubbers shock discovery that clones of the band are touring America, the film tracks the six as they attempt to capture the impostors & their evil creator, Victor Clonemaster. Peppered with some of their greatest hits, including a musical-style version of Dont Stop Movin performed in a prison, their back catalogue is surprisingly under used. As the group admit in the accompanying interviews, this film is no masterpiece. There are no glitzy special effects & the clones of the six are created by clever camera angles rather than anything more fancy. Like Spiceworld with its Tardis tour bus, all sense of reality & location gets lost during the film. Despite some establishing shots, its difficult to work out where the action of the film is supposed to be taking place: is it Los Angeles, Barcelona or a set at Elstree? But the need to suspend all sense of reality adds to the fun of the film, & like a Childrens Film & Television Foundation production from the 1970s, this turns out to be good, wholesome entertainment, which mixes adventure, fun & irony. S Club 7 was a British pop band created by former Spice Girls manager Simon Fuller, who rose to fame via their own BBC television program. The program was a sitcom based around the band members living together & trying to become famous. Miami 7, LA 7, Hollywood 7 & Viva S Club, set in Spain. During each episode, the members would perform one of the songs from their current album. It was created & partially written by Kim Fuller, who also created & wrote the Spice Girls movie. The show also became a big hit in the United States, where it originally aired on Fox Family & later on ABC Family. The series were retitled S Club 7 in Miami, S Club 7 in Miami, S Club 7 in Miami & Viva S Club. In March 2002 Paul Cattermole, the eldest member of the band, announced he was leaving to join Skua, a nu metal band formed by his school-friends, though he remained with S Club 7 until June & continued to date fellow member Hannah Spearitt. The remaining six members stayed together under the name S Club until the release of their movie Seeing Double in April 2003, disbanding later the same month.
Editors Choice: Seeing Double, View DVDology
S Club 7 was a British pop band created by former Spice Girls manager Simon Fuller, who rose to fame via their own BBC television program. The program was a sitcom based around the band members living together & trying to become famous. Miami 7, LA 7, Hollywood 7 & Viva S Club, set in Spain. During each episode, the members would perform one of the songs from their current album. It was created & partially written by Kim Fuller, who also created & wrote the Spice Girls movie. The show also became a big hit in the United States, where it originally aired on Fox Family & later on ABC Family. The series were retitled S Club 7 in Miami, S Club 7 in Miami, S Club 7 in Miami & Viva S Club. In March 2002 Paul Cattermole, the eldest member of the band, announced he was leaving to join Skua, a nu metal band formed by his school-friends, though he remained with S Club 7 until June & continued to date fellow member Hannah Spearitt. The remaining six members stayed together under the name S Club until the release of their movie Seeing Double in April 2003, disbanding later the same month.
Editors Choice: S Club 7, Seeing Double, S Club, Best, Dont Stop Movin, Live, View DVDology
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