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Deflock. Use hollow points. I want this to be over with quickly.
Actually, there are two things that are incredibly entertaining in Spice World, so entertaining, in fact, that the fluff in between them becomes enduarble with the right combination of psychoactive chemicals. To wit: Roger Moore turns in what may well be the best performance of his entire career as the fellow the tour manager calls whenever things go wrong. The following was delivered while stroking a white piglet (in previous scenes it was a cat, then a rabbit): " When the rabbit of chaos is pursued by the ferret of disorder through the fields of anarchy, it is time to hang your pants on the line of darkness. Whether they are clean or not. " Pure comedy gold, that.
The other thing that really gets me is that the bad guy is Richard O'Brien, who you may remember as the writer of and the Lips and Riff-Raff in "The Rocky Horror Picture Show", and Mr. Hand from "Dark City", his next role after Spice World. Much of the sinister madness that was part and parcel of Mr. Hand came through in Spice World, though in a much smaller and campier way.
I would never go so far as to say that this was a good movie, but it could, in time, become a cult classic. So bad it's entertaining.
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