Their concert movie, "Jonas Brothers: The 3-D Concert Experience," shamelessly copied the Beatles' "A Hard Day's Night." The 2009 Razzies made the right choice in naming the bros. as "the worst actors of 2009" in this year's Golden Raspberry Award Foundation honors. They beat out Will Ferrell for "Land of the Lost" (also very deserving), Steve Martin for "Pink Panther 2", Eddie Murphy for "Imagine That" and John Travolta for "Old Dogs." (So do they split it three ways or each earn one for themselves?)
In one scene in the film, the camera pans to the boys sitting on a bench off to the side. The girls run right past them -- and somehow never notice them. Didn't we see that scene before?
Not to mention the scenes where the boys run through the streets with female fans at their heels.
The whole film is a fictional day-in-the-boy-band's-life. One felt like saying, "Help!," after watching it. The Jonases looked like cardboard cutouts in comparison to the great job the Beatles did in AHDN. The worst actors award was well deserved.
The AHDN-looking trailer for "Jonas Brothers: The 3-D Concert Experience"
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Hear hear! Well deserved Razzie!
"The whole film is a fictional day-in-the-boy-band's-life."
Actually, only about five minutes of the opening deals with the "A Hard Day's Night" homage. The rest is a concert and some behind-the-scenes stuff. Technically, the movie is a documentary so it's just the people at the Razzies trying to show their distaste for pop music.
Are young bands not allowed to show tribute to a band/movie they like?
You're kind not to even mention how dreadful their music is. I would say "how dreadful their music is in comparison to that of The Beatles in AHDN," but that is 1) hardly fair, and 2) well, I don't even like mentioning the two groups together, even when contrasting them. Just the association lifts the Bros., and God forbid someone think they have something aside from gender in common (and can we really know if that is even the case?).
Jk: Thanks for your thoughtful and non-grouchy post. Sometimes reading the posts in this column makes me think of the posters as I remember my Uncles & Grandparents on the Beatles: shaking a cane, saying "that's not music, it's just noise! Now back in my day, we had some REAL music. Glenn Miller, Sinatra, Rudy Valley..."
I not a Jo-bros fan, but my neice saw them and Demi Lovado (?) in concert and was delighted! Isn't that one of the reasons for music? My neice also likes the Beatles, so she is more open-minded than some folks here.
John W, your shot at the Bros. gender is EXACTLY what many people said about the Beatles, because of their "long" hair! I remember some guy on tv groused the Fabs "should have less hair on their heads and more on their chests!" That's insane in so many ways that I shouldn't need to go into it. John W, if you can't tell the Jonas' gender, maybe have that little "birds & bees" talk with someone! Fabs fans relax, quit shaking your canes.
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