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Why did they think this would work?

posted 18 years ago by midnight_wanderer
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The only good part in the story was when they played Halo of Flies over Alice & the guys escaping in that elephant becuase the music sounded good but who in the hell thought the rest of that plot crap was a good idea? You can't get the audience to expect rock & then get a boring scene after every other song. I mean couldn't they have at least made it colorful scenes or scenes that went along with music. It was the dumbest idea I've ever seen. The whole scene with the elephant was actually funny but every other scene dragged on & on.

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[–] TelevisionJunkie 18 years ago

I liked the beginning with "Lady and the Tramp" and the band walking out, as well as the scene with the elephant -- and the corny Lone Stranger scene. The whole problem was that the band wasn't involved in much of the "plot." Well, that was ONE of the problems. The other problems are that the Fred Smoot guy has to be one of the unfunniest people ever to try his hand at improv comedy, and the scenes seemed to drag on endlessly. If they'd gotten the band to do some more wacky skits (ala The Beatles and The Monkees) and injected that between songs as filler, it might've been good.

I'd sort of like to see the alternate print, though I'm sure there was something regarding the rights to the movie clips that were used as filler that prevented it from being released on disc.

[–] TheAtticMan 18 years ago

Just go to Special Features or whatever and watch the concert only. It will be all better... I promise. Yeah the filler scenes were pretty pointless, but the music was good.

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[–] metalion_sos 17 years ago

It seems like it was inspired by Born To Boogie, but at least BtB was funny.

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[–] Fingaroo 17 years ago

I thought the non-concert footage was pretty lame as well. But then I watched it with the commentary by Alice "on", and it was friggin' hilarious! The guy is flat out funny, and has some interesting things to say about the times, the concert, and the filming. Well worth at least one viewing.