It’s 20 years since the Spice Girls headed to the big screen for their solo movie.

And we’ve taken a look back…

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I dont thinkSpice World: The Movieis as good as Inception.

For added fun, the late Roger Ebert had it as one of the films that he most hated.

I dont believe in guilty pleasures, personally,and have written about that before.

Nor do I agree with Roger.

Is it a great film?

It is particularly well made?

Well, Scorsese was hardly shitting himself.

But was it, and is it, fun?

Bluntly, I suspect someone suggested why dont we make a movie?

(Kim Fuller and the Spice Girls, according to the credits), and somebody else said yes.

But I never got a sense of that while watching the film.

Rewatching it 20 years on,Spice Worldis a bit of a curious beast.

It plays for long parts like a television special, with the production values to match.

Every now and then, to the films credit, it remembers its story, and returns to it.

And yet someone was having a lot of fun with this.

Aforementioned screenwriter Kim Fuller would be my guess.

Im going out on a limb and saying thatSpice Worldis the best of his unofficial music movie trilogy.

Because the things that are bundled in here are worthy of some praise.

Go forward a bit more, and theres a mini-Agatha Christie spoof.

Then theres a pitch for a sci-fi movie.

Then there are tips of the hat to Bond.

My favorite moment is the big action finale.

Weird how the use of the Union Jack in the 1990s seemed a lot more innocent and apolitical.

Anyway, the bus was tearing through London trying to get the band to the Albert Hall on time.

Cut to a toy bus, a toy bridge, and much guffawing in the cinema at the time.

And on my sofa over the weekend.

It comes back to this.

And to try and make people laugh.

The cast is testament to that.

It might be me, but I reckon theres a Bond spoof in there somewhere.

Theres a soupcon of pre-arrest 90s talent to be found too.

Michael Barrymore has a cameo (he was drafted in when John Cleese turned the role down!

), reprising hisStrike It Luckyshtick.

(Hello to) Jason Isaacs had a cameo in there too, but this was cut.

Hes, thankfully, still alive though.

In that sense, you get pretty much what you were expecting.

On its opening in the US, it set a record for the highest debut over Super Bowl weekend.

I do not have data as to who won).

Its an odd film.

But there remains a space on my DVD shelf forSpice World.

They dont make em like this anymore, yknow…