Haven't seen any of these except for a clip of the Josie movie.  It like made me want to jump in front of a bus it was so bad.  And wow, the actors are so ugly compared to the characters I love.  Just what they did to Alexandra made me want to cry myself to sleep.  I'll just stick with the cartoon.

I haven't seen the Sabrina movie, but I voted for Return to Riverdale. That was...awkward, I think is the best word. It's like they tried to do Archie grown up, but they were still kind of squeamish and squeaky-clean. For example, Veronica's line: "I believe married couples should make love as often as possible."

The Josie movie is brilliant. It saddens me that so many people still don't get this movie. It's a satire of popular culture (for example, the boy band DuJour, which is so laughably absurd, yet all of the girls are crazy over them just as they are in real life over the Backstreet Boys, the Jonas Brothers, etc.; its name even means "Of the moment") in general and consumerism (the subliminal messages plot; also witness all of the deliberate product placement) in particular. Awesome! And the soundtrack rocks!

They should just hire Bruce Timm and Paul Dini to make an animated direct to video Josie and the Pussycats movie.  I guarantee you they would produce something fantastic and very close to the spirit of the source material since they're obviously fans.  This would also be extremely easy since they've worked mostly for WB, WB owns the rights, and the Scooby DTV movies have been extremely successful.

And parodying the absurdity of the music industry in a movie about a girl band is kind of obvious and isn't something I really want to see for an entire Josie movie.  Still haven't seen very much of this film just because I don't want to, but that seems like a wasted opportunity if that's all  they did with it (I've heard this repeated elsewhere). 

I mean for some jokes, sure, it would work great.  However, if you want to craft an entire movie around social commentary on consumerism I think it would be better to do it a non-obvious way like Dawn of the Dead (1978).  With a Josie film, I would probably want to see some of the adventure elements borrowed from the TV series and the comic.  That way we could get into the characters outside of the context of them as a band. 

I'm not sure, but it just seems like another byproduct of the horrendous Hollywood system where a project is developed and the studio hires screenwriters and a director who couldn't give a rat's back end about the source material.  Maybe I'm wrong here, but it sort of gives me that vibe. 

But of course, one of the biggest problems with adaptions of Archie stuff is the actors are never going to come close the characters we are familiar with.  For that reason, I would probably prefer them to stay in the realm of animation.

For example, Veronica's line: "I believe married couples should make love as often as possible."

Someone should put that clip on youtube.  I don't have the patience to sit through the entire thing. xd

This is going to sound strange, but as bad as all of them could (and probably) be, I like them all and couldn't really vote against any of them.

Of course it has also been a while since I've seen any of them...

Okay, now I need to have an Archie movie marathon.