Josie and the Pussycats (2001)

The bright cartoon-band packaging can conceal how insistently the film makes advertising part of its visual joke. Logos crowd the world while the music business sells individuality as another standardised product. Rachael Leigh Cook, Rosario Dawson and Tara Reid give the band enough affection to keep the satire from becoming a lecture. Its broadness is hardly subtle, but the connection between manufactured taste and friendship feels more useful now than a disposable tie-in's reputation suggests. Look around the frame as well as following the plot.