This bio-drama of The Monkees gives a fairly detailed story of their beginnings and rise to fame, and the seeds of their eventual fall. In spite of a maybe too happy ending, the actors depicting The Monkees do a amazing job, reproducing most of their hit music videos (original recordings) with impressive accuracy. There are some surprise characters depicted such as Jack Nicholson, Jimmy Hendrix and The Beatles. Additionally, the participation on the DVD of three of the original Monkees, Micky Dolenz, Davy Jones & Peter Tork, has added a lot of extra entertainment value to the DVD. They each do separate feature length commentaries plus separate video interviews, which (along with director Neill Fearnley's audio commentary) gives about 7 hours of additional insight into what really happened with The Monkees. It's both amusing and informative to view these extras.