100% Everyday Sunshine: The Story of Fishbone

All Critics (41) | Top Critics (11) | Fresh (41) | Rotten (0)

It's a movie about what it's like to almost make it in the music business, but not really, not quite. It's about coming close and watching it slip away.

What makes this better than the usual Behind the Music-style doc is the frankness of its subjects and the fun way the filmmakers intersperse Fat Albert-style animation to tell their story.

Even as a hagiography, though, it's pretty interesting.

[It] isn't the happiest movie about a band you'll ever see, but it is one of the more entertaining, and thanks to directors Lev Anderson and Christ Metzler, one of the most original.

It seems telling just how many other musicians were willing to participate in the documentary to attest to the outfit's influence.

It all comes together for a rollicking chronicle of verve and nerve.

To hear the soaring craziness of Fishbone's "Sunless Saturday" is to wonder how such musical inspiration could possibly miss.

It's a much more interesting story than your usual Behind the Music arc.

Anderson and Metzler collect dozens of great bits of rehearsal and performance footage as well as intimate footage between Moore and his family.

"Everyday Sunshine" presents a raw lesson in how artistry and success often make incompatible partners.

Everyday Sunshine is an uplifting entry that rises to its task rather than letting the music do all the talking.

The pinnacle comes when Kendall rejoins them for an impromptu gig, stirring hope for a return to glory.

Hold on to your hats for a heartwarming look into the private lives and public outrage of Fishbone, the critical mass that refuses to melt down.

Gets the job done, and admirably, blending interviews, testimonials, concert footage and, interestingly, animation to build a full and engaging portrait of Fishbone.

Everyday Sunshine doesn't do the band the disservice of falling at their feet in worship, like too many recent films about legendary musicians

The fun and energy of those performances show the promise that was lost - and the pleasure that's still in the music.

Terrific, deeply affecting rock documentary that captures the unlikely assemblage of a bunch of L.A. black guys playing the kind of music no one had ever really heard before.

Seizes that tumultuous spirit, that sheer history of Fishbone, rolling it into a tremendous, informative documentary that avoids tracking footprints, instead exposing the raw nerve sensitivity within this legendary band.

More Critic Reviews

No quotes approved yet for Everyday Sunshine: The Story of Fishbone. Logged in users can submit quotes.

Source: http://www.rottentomatoes.com/m/everyday_sunshine_the_story_of_fishbone_2011/

martin luther king jr friday the 13th john edwards colbert super pac colbert super pac constitution day constitution day