The critic consesnsus is: So you wanna be a rock 'n' roll star? Dig! compellingly chronicles the ups and downs of the Dandy Warhols and the Brian Jonestown Massacre, two ambitious bands whose love/hate relationship embodies many of the potential pratfalls of the music business.. What reviews supported this critic consensus?
1. It invites those of us who aren't alt-rock obsessives into the hive, yet it never feels like a dilettante's tour.
2. Makes the case for both bands as among the top-rank in the indie biz, although the film could use more concert footage.
3. Beyond the lure of going intimately behind the scenes with two excellent indie outfits (one drastically underappreciated), DIG! offers fascinating insights into how some vivid personalities fare in the music industry.
4. Obsessed with two insignificant musical acts.
5. The movie, which was seven years in the making, plays like a mid-'90s "Amadeus."
6. It's a fascinating film that manages to touch on subjects as diverse as mental illness and what's wrong with the record industry, set to brilliant music by the one of the best bands you've probably never heard.
7. Dig! strikes it rich by contrasting the stories of two bands going in different directions and the animosity that builds between them.
8. Most of the movie gets its interest from musicians overestimating their own importance.
9. Ultimately undermined by the fact that the two rock bands Timoner chose to focus on -- the Brian Jonestown Massacre and the Dandy Warhols -- simply don't matter as much as she thinks they do.
10. Director/producer Ondi Timoner captures some fantastically outrageous footage.