Review: Pearl Jam Twenty

Best filed under 'One for the fans' Pearl Jam Twenty won't offer you anything if you're not familiar with the work of Eddie Vedder's crew. Though all seem nice enough, the fact that none of them come across as a larger than life figure means this document of the band's 20 year career ends up just becoming a series of archived footage in montage alongside a series of talking heads that all downplay the key moments in their history - the death of their original frontman, taking on Ticketmaster's unfair prices and the terrible events that took place in Roskilde.

You'd expect that from a writer/director as proficient as Cameron Crowe he'd at least be able to put an interesting cultural perspective on it from his time at Rolling Stone Magazine, but the lack of any real substance to that makes the film far too one dimensional to be anything memorable.

By the end of 2 hours you find yourself asking the question - if it's all about the music, what's the point of making a film?