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From: Dog
Category: Films
Date: 08 March 2001
Remember Dougie Howser MD, a tv show from the 80s about a likeably annoying teenage prodigy doctor. Now Cameron Crowe brings us the movie version except this time the prodigy is a charmingly geeky teenage rock journalist. Based on the director's own true life story, set in the sentimentalised 70s milked for maximum nostalgia value, we are presented with a wincingly cute and meandering tale of our boy's tour with madeup band, Stillwater, as he writes a story for Rolling Stone magazine. The band are good hearted characters who want to be famous , the groupies are nice girls who give the band blowjobs, the kid is really prodigiously kind and personable , his mother is overprotective but has a heart of gold, even the band's manager is a quite nice. Where is the dark side of life? Even when one of the groupies takes an overdose, it is presented as a comic-erotic moment from the viewpoint of the kid, who ogles her as her stomach is pumped. This flimsy piece of dull nostalgia has barely enough material or insight to fill a 22 minute sitcom episode. It would be rejected as too boring and unfunny by the makers of That 70s Show. Did I mention how much I hate slickly packaged American movie whimsicality?
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