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Hollywood Reporter reviews Katy's new film!
http://www.hollywoodreporter.com/rev...e-movie-344394
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An amalgam of angsty singer-songwriters and celebrity starlets -- including Morissette, Liz Phair and bad-girl-phase Britney Spears, not to mention Marilyn Monroe and Rita Hayworth -- Perry’s carefully crafted persona is pitched to appeal to (mostly) female enthusiasts of nearly any age, but quite a few boys and men are onboard with her sexy, self-empowerment pop message as well. With lavishly applied makeup, outrageously colored hairstyles and eye-popping costumes emphasizing her bust- and waistlines, Perry sometimes impresses as a dress-up doll with attitude.
“Katy Kat's" followers are equally devoted to both Perry the performer and Perry the musician. The sex-kitten alternative to Lady Gaga’s perplexing chameleon persona, her charisma with concertgoers is impressive as she chats them up at carefully managed backstage meet-and-greets or pulls them out of the crowd to dance ecstatically with her entourage onstage. “I feel a bit like I live in a fairytale,” she says at one point, and seems determined to deliver the same experience at her concerts.
A mix of interviews, reality TV-style behind-the-scenes footage and 3D concert scenes, the movie is attractively, if conventionally, assembled. The live performances in particular feature an energized sheen sometimes missing from Perry’s music videos featuring the very same songs. Although arguably more of an adulatory artist profile than a bona fide concert doc, the movie is still likely to surpass even Perry’s personal aspiration -- “My goal is simple: to make people smile.”
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