S Club: Seeing Double review

Why you can trust GamesRadar+ Our experts review games, movies and tech over countless hours, so you can choose the best for you. Find out more about our reviews policy.

The Spice Girls can't get a reunion together, the manufactured pop tarts of various reality TV behemoths are haemorrhaging contracts and Britney's snogging/swilling/smoking her way round every party in town. So you've got to wonder who the hell S Club's synthetic, distinctly whiffy fromage is aimed at.

The plot hardly matters, but it goes something like this: complaining about working too hard, S Club are left contemplating a new set of woes when a mad scientist clones them. What to do? Why, go after their doppelgängers and retrieve their careers, of course...

Bouncing between embarrassingly atrocious acting and energetic-but-shoehorned-in sing-songs, Seeing Double makes Spice World look like a masterpiece. That it's lazy, insulting and painfully inept is pretty much a given - - it's the unintentional irony that sticks in the gullet.

After all, how can audiences swallow a tale that bewails the cloning of pop stars when it's produced by cynical music factory 19 Management and features a cameo from cash cow du jour Gareth Gates? Shameful.

The Total Film team are made up of the finest minds in all of film journalism. They are: Editor Jane Crowther, Deputy Editor Matt Maytum, Reviews Ed Matthew Leyland, News Editor Jordan Farley, and Online Editor Emily Murray. Expect exclusive news, reviews, features, and more from the team behind the smarter movie magazine.