Genres:
Comedy
Musical
Release Date: 09/13/2005
Dubbed: English
Sound: DD2/DD5.1
Run Time: 70 min
Distributor/Studio: Music Video Distributors
The
garage rock band
the Chesterfield Kings star in the film
Where is the Chesterfield King? An evil alien named
Andro has kidnapped the drummer, and the rest of the band has to travel across the globe in order to get him back. The film recalls the slapdash
Beatles movie
Help!.
~ Perry Seibert, All Movie Guide
Having a movie soundtrack to go along with the music of beloved bands is a superb concept and with a group as accessible and fun as
The Chesterfield Kings such a film should be easy to make. Just string a bunch of performances together like an episode of
The Monkees and add any type of silly storyline to connect that music together. Alas, what our heroes do with this video adventure is exactly the opposite, they put great music next to a script which rivals
Plan 9 from Outer Space, and add some strained
Three Stooges madness that falls flat. Watching it is...painful...even when
Mark Lindsay makes a guest appearance. The grainy texture to the DVD is actually quite appealing, and all the elements for an underground smash are in this bow, it is just that the arrow misses the mark. The original 2001 Motion Picture release comes with extras that are so cool you will find yourself watching them instead of the flick. Those extras include a manic and psychedelic low-fi couple of 1997 performances from
The El Sol Club in Madrid, Spain,
"Rock n' Roll Murder" from the
Bilbo Club in Spain that same year with the boys sounding like
The Gizmos on bad acid, while the 1999
"Freak Out" from Rochester New York is definitely your Saturday night fly-on-the-wall camera having convulsions. There's a great music video of
"Where Do We Go From Here" featuring Mark Lindsay, thirteen minutes of footage from the world premiere of the feature film held on September 30, 2000, and a trailer to the movie -- which is all the fun stuff
Chesterfield Kings fans are really looking for. The promo says "It's
Ed Wood meets
A Hard Days Night and, sadly, it leans more towards the
Ed Wood end of the spectrum. The songs sprinkled throughout the movie have that
Flamin' Groovies sound which is one of their key selling points, and that is where the group truly shines. If only they had more performances and shorter vignettes, but that's OK,
Where Is The Chesterfield King?!?! gets a B+ for effort and let's hope
Greg Prevost and the boys try it again...only this time with a real script.
~ Joe Viglione, All Movie Guide
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