The Kids Are Alright
The Kids Are Alright
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The Kids Are Alright

The Kids Are Alright

1979
Documentary, Music
1h 49m
Through concert performances and interviews, this film offers us an "inside look" at this famous rock group... (imdb)

The Kids Are Alright

1979
Documentary, Music
1h 49m
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Rated 27 May 2022
60
63rd
Anytime they're playing music, or Keith Moon is being belligerently drunk: 80. Anytime Townshend is playing up for the camera: 40.
Rated 07 Sep 2020
88
94th
Rewatched. For me, the best filmed rock performance pretty much ever is The Who playing A Quick One While He's Away at The Rolling Stones Rock and Roll Circus gig. This is as good a setting to see it as any. Early Keith Moon is a sight to behold as well - how he stays on beat doing the shit he does I'll never know.
Rated 01 Jan 2017
80
56th
A strange film because labels such as "portrait" or "inside look" at the band seem inaccurate. It's more of a look at how the Who presented themselves through this period, with Townshend as the spokesperson and Moon as comic relief. Daltrey and Entwistle seem hardly there. It's also clumsily edited together at times, but the strength of the Who as performers, with a sometimes literal destructive energy, is fascinating to watch.
Rated 12 Jun 2012
9
91st
A great portrait of a great band. It doesn't make much sense as a documentary, and John gets little face time, but there are some superb performances and entertaining archive snippets.
Rated 17 Oct 2011
100
99th
Another one of my favorite documentaries on one of my favorite bands.
Rated 08 Nov 2010
74
91st
Greatest rock 'n roll movie of all time. Favorite performances: We Won't Get Fooled Again, Young Man's Blues, and a very special version of "A Quick One While He's Away" taken from the unreleased Rolling Stones performance film The Great Rock 'N Roll Circus.
Rated 16 Oct 2010
73
88th
This doc is all over the place but I love me some Who and will take it wherever I can get it.
Rated 21 Aug 2009
100
98th
The Who kick ass, just like this movie.
Rated 19 Dec 2006
72
41st
There's not much rhyme or reason to the construction of this movie; it's all interviews, TV appearances, promotional films and live performances thrown together. Only occasionally will there be some thematic link between one piece and the next. The Who was an exciting band with a sense of humor, so most of the material is golden. But why wasn't there anything from my favorite album, Quadrophenia? 9+ minutes of "Won't Get Fooled Again" and not one second of "Love Reign O'er Me"? Bah.

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