Miami 7

This series of S Club 7 is so wonderful. The music is great, the characters are great and the plot lines are funny. This isn't your average teenie bopper band. There is something about S Club 7 that is so much different, it keeps me attached! I recommend this show to anyone, boys or girls, and of any age!

The Monkees were a good show in their day, but this show is better. Unlike The Monkees and The Partridge Family, S Club 7 don't pretend to play instruments, they just sing and dance. It would be easy to dismiss them as a musical group because they were formed for the show, but when you hear them perform on the show you find out how good their music is. They usually perform one number every episode, mainly from songs that are on their cd. They're also very energetic in their comedic performances and it makes for an entertaining half hour. It is a kids show and it doesn't require deep thinking, but I think people will be suprised at how talented the group is.

I recall watching this in the afternoons after school growing up. Haven't seen it in years but recall this being a charming show with a pop group obviously generated by music moguls. Groups like this were really popular at the time. Cute humor and I was always a fan of their music. The kind of show you shouldn't watch if you are looking for award winning entertainment. Just watch it for fun.

If you are reading this and wondering what the heck a "S Club 7" actually is, then you are probably a fan of either Rachel Stevens or Hannah Spearritt looking for things they did early in their careers. Rachel and Hannah appear to be the only members of the cast who have been visible in the industry since the BBC show ended and the group broke up.

I say "group" because the premise of the thing is that they are a seven member musical group-imagine "The A-Teens" playing the main characters on "Hangtime" and you will have a pretty good idea of the concept. Like "Hangtime" they placed a premium on diversity although they shot themselves in the foot by turning the black guy into a "step-and-fetch-it" caricature who is patronized by the other six members of the group.

The "Miami 7" tape opens with the group's first performance at a Florida resort. This becomes unintentionally hilarious when the owner makes them do "Tie a Yellow Ribbon" as their first song. Then they rebel and insist on doing their own songs-the producers try to dial up the contrast between the geriatric first number and the youthful zest of their natural style. Amusingly, other than exposing their abs there is almost no difference since the "S Club 7" style is just an updated version of "Tony Orlando and Dawn" Although the group actually had some hits, the BBC show just reveals their acting and performing inadequacies. The 1999 "Miami 7" episodes on the VHS tape have some historical interest because even a casual observer can see that Rachel and Hannah stand out from from the others talent-wise and charisma-wise.

A word of warning-although the VHS tape I watched was new it would not play smoothly and jammed frequently, the only tape that has ever done this in my player.

Oh yeah, like this world needs another group of pretty-faced

teeny boppers who sing and dance so much they can put the entire

cast of "Rent" to shame. Here, we have a band of teens from

merry old England touring Miami, constantly running around the

beaches and mingle during the day, when at night they perform

their bad love songs. Well, that's about it for the lame,

formulaic plots!

The S Club 7 consists of 4 chicks and 3 guys. The dudes of the

club are just mediocre additions to the band, since it's mostly

the girls who do the singing and real performing! I have to say

Rachael and Jo are the hottest of the girls, but just like the

rest of the band, they can't sing or act!! I guess they can

blame their incapablities to be or singers thespians on their

annoyingly thick British accents. Sometimes they're so damn

incoherent that you can't understand a word they're saying! Now,

I am not making fun of their foreign traits. Roger Moore and

Cary Elwes are both English, but at least their accents aren't

extremely thick. That's why they made such good actors. As for

the S Club 7, guys, you gotta work on your performance pieces!

And stop singing lame love s