METALLICA, SOME KIND OF MONSTER

Director: Joe Berlinger (Blair Witch 2) & Bruce Sinofsky
Starring: Documentary

A surprisingly interesting documentary about pointedly untalented heavy metal musicians going through therapy and rehab and stuff. These people are not great musucians, although everybody in the film tells them they are. They walk around behaving like they are. It's kind of cute seeing this. It's also kind of cute watching these 40-year-old, overindulged adolescents striving to become functioning adults. Yeah, it's even cute watching them fail. Then you realize that we're all just like these guys - grown up adolescents making an effort to really grow up. Metallica doesn't quite make it, but they're trying. Just like the rest of us.

Standouts: The concept of the film: Death-metal pyschoanalysis.
Blowouts: The band. These guys really are idiots ... but so are we all.

Grade: B-