jellopuke Great look at the early days, but pretty much skips from the mid 70's to now with barely a mention other than to say that they became an institution. Okay, but surely they did something of note? Hardly a definitive look at the band, but a solid one to watch anyway.

mac-hawk The film's very good in representing the bands early and mid term journey with all it's successes, failures, drugs, drink etc with candid interviews and good musical snippets. The footage is great but my biggest disappointment with the film is that basically very little is mentioned of the bands musical output post Let It Bleed. Sticky Fingers get a brief snippet, Exile on Main Street has a little more but post that almost nothing. A brief interlude of 'Angie' and how great Ronnie Wood has fit into the band - and he sure has if only they'd give him a bit more freedom to work with. But, and it's a big but, nothing - a great big zilch of their musical output through the late 70's and beyond, much of which was/has been critically underwhelming.It would also have been nice to see the involvement with the band of Ian 'Stu' Stewart and Bobby Keys recognised.In short, the film's an unpolished diamond, well worth a look to the Stones fan

SnoopyStyle This is an abbreviated history of The Rolling Stones in 2 hours. Certainly that's not enough to go into much depth. They go from the start of their success to modern day with very little after the Canadian arrest and release.They go through using old TV and film clips. It's fun to see some of the old footage. Although they didn't use the footage, they did use snippets of present day interview as narration for the documentary. Again the reminiscence is fairly superficial. They're not digging real deep in these interviews and nothing shocking is shown here. Just good music and good memories.

paul2001sw-1 Over the years, the Rolling Stones have transformed from counter-cultural icons, and revolutionary music makers, into institutionalised pensioners, the "strolling bones" as the wags call them, always on tour but with nothing new to say. This documentary charts their first 20 years (though the band are still performing after 50); but it's fairly soft and uninformative material, a collage of old pictures and film, a little bit of concert footage, and a few throwaway comments from the band. There's a fair old Stones industry these days, but another recent documentary, about the making of their legendary album 'Exile on Main Street', was more insightful than this, which is more celebratory in tone. If you're a Stones fanatic, you'll learn little new; but even if you don't, and want to learn more about them, there are probably better places to start.