This is a really great movie whether you like the Beach Boys or not

Rating: 9/10 (18 April 2016)

I recently watched this film on an airplane flight. What a touching story. At last there is a movie that credits Brian Wilson for something that few outside the music industry know - that he is a musical genius! The other brothers merely sang the songs which he wrote and composed. Also that, like most geniuses, he suffered from mental illness. Simply put, there is far more to the Beach Boys than the image of the clean cut all American boys. The film peels off the many complicated layers of the Beach Boys and gives us a bird's eye view of the internal strife that occurred in the band in it's latter years. At the end of the day, it is clear that the Beach Boys were not just the quintessential Californian Band but a quintessential American Band.