Documentary on the ’80s band 'The Go-Go's.'
Back when the Go-Go’s were all over Top 40 radio in the early 1980s — helping define the colorful fashions and the can-do attitude of the first MTV generation — few fans would’ve called them “punk rockers.” But as Alison Ellwood’s comprehensive and rousing documentary “The Go-Go’s” makes clear, the band members started out as scrappy Los Angeles club-rats when they debuted in 1978, before evolving naturally and rapidly into pop superstars. The change ultimately tore the group apart.
The parts of the movie that will be the most revelatory — even to people who had “We Got the Beat” and “Vacation” in heavy rotation in the ’80s — have to do with the band’s early days, when the Go-Go’s bashed out loud, aggressive music on the same bill as the legends of L.A. punk, turning skeptical skinheads into converts.
Ellwood avoids putting any simplistic spin on the Go-Go’s arc. Every woman in the band gets to say their piece, unfettered — even the ones who were booted out before the first album. They all explain that even at their most strained, the relationships in the band were never totally toxic. They had fun together offstage sometimes; and they were dynamite on stage.
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