Enjoy, don't take seriously!

Rating: Null/10 (29 July 1999)

I enjoyed this film very much, and I must say that I didn't realise what a beautiful body Ewan MacGregor has (and you get to see quite a lot of it.)
The fake pop videos were really close to the truth,full of pretentious and meaningless detail and silly poses, costumes and expressions.
The sound track is wonderful, and that they did the singing themselves is impressive to say the least. Casting was superb throghout.
However as someone who was around in the 70's (I was 16 in 1970) I must say I didn't recognise some of the details, and there were what I think are anachronisms. For example Kurt is described in 1971 as the leader of a garage band. I don't think the word "garage" was used in reference to music until the 1980's. Also Kurt wears dark blue nail varnish, which I don't recall being available at that time. There is also an anachronistically old-fashioned computer shown in the later time scenes (but this is common in films).