Backstreet Boys: Show 'Em What You're Made Of

Name: Backstreet Boys: Show 'Em What You're Made Of
Genre: Documentary
Released: January 30, 2015
Duration: 101 min
Rating: 42

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Backstreet Boys: Show 'Em What You're Made Of

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Gravitas Ventures | Release Date: January 30, 2015 | Not Rated

Summary: A behind-the-scenes look at the popular boy band, Backstreet Boys, that takes us through the many highs and lows that led the band to return to the studio in 2012, write a new album and plan their 20th anniversary relaunch. The reunion renewed friendships but dynamic shifts reveal new and old tensions that need confronting and resolving.A behind-the-scenes look at the popular boy band, Backstreet Boys, that takes us through the many highs and lows that led the band to return to the studio in 2012, write a new album and plan their 20th anniversary relaunch. The reunion renewed friendships but dynamic shifts reveal new and old tensions that need confronting and resolving. [Gravitas Ventures]… Expand

Director: Stephen Kijak

Genre(s): Documentary

Rating: Not Rated

Runtime: 101 min

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Amy Nicholson

Jan 27, 2015

Show 'Em What You're Made Of convincingly argues that these boy-men have something to say about the fickleness of fate — something they knew more about as young men than any of the cynics who dismissed them for dancing in unison. The hardest part will be convincing people to listen. Read full review

Gerrick D. Kennedy

Jan 29, 2015

Even if Show 'Em What You're Made Of doesn't answer McLean's essential question of what men do after life as a boy band, the carefully crafted film is an engaging look at how they got to here. Read full review

Elizabeth Weitzman

Jan 29, 2015

True, the Boys are thoughtful and eloquent, and the whole package is engaging enough to hold even a newcomer’s attention, but the end result is an incomplete story of a forgotten band hoping to celebrate — or should I say sell-abrate — an anniversary no one else remembered. Read full review

Time Out London Elizabeth Darke

Feb 23, 2015

This tale of the manufactured pop group – fractured by fall-outs and drug abuse and now trying to ‘find’ themselves as they reflect on their career – is nauseating even for a long-term fan. Read full review

Frank Scheck

Jan 29, 2015

Director Stephen Kijak, who previously explored far more compelling musical territory with Scott Walker: 30 Century Man, has delivered a behind-the-scenes portrait that should please the band's diehard fans but offers little of substance to the uninitiated. Read full review

Neil Genzlinger

Jan 29, 2015

It is insight-free and cliché-heavy, with the five sharing obvious reminiscences about the thrill of superstardom, visiting haunts from their youth, shooting baskets and occasionally rehearsing. Read full review

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emmagammon83

Sep 19, 2020

Absolutely excellent. Our boys are now grown men, the life has taken its toll emotionally on them all. Thank you for inviting us in to experience a true experience with you.

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kindam

Jan 31, 2015

Interesting, raw, vulnerable. There's definitely a lot here that even die-hard fans won't know about, and a side to the Boys we've never seen before. It's an insane roller coaster ride of emotions, and I enjoyed every minute of it. My only complaint is that it didn't last longer!

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iamfercs

Jun 30, 2015

Furor vaginal es lo que causaban estos 5 tipos llamados los Backstreet Boys a finales de la década de los noventas y a principios de los 2000.

Veinte años han pasado, por lo menos hasta el momento de la realización de este documental de la BBC, desde la creación de esta boy-band que causoFuror vaginal es lo que causaban estos 5 tipos llamados los Backstreet Boys a finales de la década de los noventas y a principios de los 2000.

Veinte años han pasado, por lo menos hasta el momento de la realización de este documental de la BBC, desde la creación de esta boy-band que causo una gran dosis de histeria en millones de chicas, y porque no, de algunos cuantos hombres, al verlos bailar y cantar sobre algún escenario.

El material que dura alrededor de 100 minutos presenta y recopila la experiencia de Brian, Nick, Howie, AJ y Kevin, de como llegaron a ser parte de un fenómeno mundial y de lo que han recorrido hasta el día de hoy que siguen formando parte de la agrupación.

Historias de su familia, de sus amigos, de sus trabajos previos a BSB, de sus inicios en la música, de los éxitos, enojos, excesos y pérdidas que han vivido a lo largo de su carrera musical.

Sin duda un material que puede llenar de alegría y tristeza a cientos de fans, ya entradas en años, al igual que ellos; pero para los que crecimos conociéndolos porque teníamos hermanas, amigas, conocidas, o en mi caso, algunas cuantas primas locas por ellos, se disfruta e incluso se recuerda con cierto cariño esa época.

No esperen cantar viendo un concierto de ellos, o sus vídeos, o algunos ensayos, podrán ver algunos extractos, pero aún sin sus grandes éxitos reproduciéndose, el documental logra explorar la vida de los Backstreet Boys, una banda con un éxito enorme.… Expand

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