Living near Manhattan’s Times Square for 20 years will tend to jack one’s cynicism. However, as a counterbalance, what one often encounters in Times Square are middle-schoolers, on class trips.
One forgets tweens have things like choir practice. They often like to unabashedly break out into song. They think this is normal. Three-part harmony. Boys too. It’s very cute. It’s nice to be reminded that sometimes childhood is just childhood, and not all children are jaded.
So probably ages up to 15 will enjoy “Jem and the Holograms,” but the older tweens and teens will make a show of not liking it. My guess is, if you take a bevy of early tweens (8 and 9 year-old girls) they'll be over the moon. Popcorn and giggling and squealing. Go dad go.
Meet the Band
Based on a popular 1980’s cartoon, this is a tween chick-flick about girls-in-a-band, like “The Runaways,” “Josie and the Pussycats,” and many others.
