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If The Flaming Lips have had an accidental career, then this documentary is indeed an accident as well. After combing through 400 hours of footage, The Fearless Freaks is at last fully realized.
May 17, 2005 Wide
May 17, 2005
Shout! Factory
All Critics (14) | Top Critics (7) | Fresh (12) | Rotten (0) | DVD (2)
Will please devotees without attracting many, if any, new converts.
Wildly entertaining.
So darn watchable that it could turn someone who never heard of the Flaming Lips into a devoted fan.
Bradley Beesley's intimate documentary traces the two-decade career of the Flaming Lips, a seminal art-rock band from Oklahoma City.
As artfully scrappy and likably wide-eyed as its subjects.
Cobbles together an appropriately whacked-out portrait of the band's surreal and haphazard career trajectory.
Having been involved in helping the band craft its decidedly bizarre visual imagery for so much of its history, Beesley's film is perfectly in sync with the Lips' unique vision.
What really fuels the movie, however -- aside from the constant, buoyant presence of the band's leader, Wayne Coyne -- is its warts-and-all approach.
Beesley could have made just a fan movie... but here we get much more.
Ripe with offbeat Americana, Beesley's rockumentary is also a portrait of growing up in a white-trash Okie ghetto.
I wish Wayne Cohn lived in my neighborhood.
August 12, 2007Super Reviewer
See this even if you don't know much about The Flaming Lips. We could all learn a thing or two about the art of performance.
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