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VH1 Behind the Music - Motley Crue Actor: Motley Crue Number of Items: 1 Format: Color Audience Rating: NR (Not Rated) Studio: Universal Music & VI Product Group: DVD Release Date: 2003-04-08 Buy from Amazon

From Amazon.com Who better than L.A.'s tattooed bad boys Motley Crue to represent the sordid but compelling brew of sex, drugs, and debauchery that personifies VH-1's Behind the Music? In a tale told (in 2000) through interviews, film clips, and, of course, really loud music, the four Cruemen (Vince Neil, Tommy Lee, Nikki Sixx, and Mick Mars, who nowadays looks like a denizen of the planet he's named after) travel the familiar road from runaway success to a drug-and-alcohol-fueled crash and burn, only to come back sober and strong, ready to tell the world just how f***ed up (the show's censored, too) it all was. Only this time it's even juicier, what with Neil's vehicular manslaughter conviction and Lee's many merry misadventures with Pamela Anderson. Throw in a music video (for "Enslaved") and some other minor extras, and you've got a guilty pleasure that virtually parodies itself. --Sam Graham

Customer Reviews: Total numer of reviews: 17 Average rating: 4.5 "Very good documentary" Very interesting and good DVD. Sadly, I could only view it on my computer. It didn't work with my DVD-player/TV. Maybe I will have to buy new equpiment... "THE MUTTS NUTS!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!" This dvd from Vh1 is killer! it tackles every angle of the crue and touches on things with them that most bands would never admit to. a very good watch! "AMAZING!" Between "The Dirt" and this episode of VH1's "Behind the Music", it's amazing that the boys from Motley Crue have survived to tell their story. Well, in the case of Nikki, he almost didn't survive, as you'll see him tell the story of dying and coming back to life. It's one thing to have read about that in "The Dirt", but to see him and hear him telling the story on this DVD is spell bounding. Nikki is defnitely a fantastic story teller and he is in rare form on this DVD, camping it up for the camera and enjoying every minute of it. Motley Crue is by far the best of the "Behind the Music" formula: band struggles, band makes it big, band has drug/alcohol problems, band overcomes. The Crue had bigger drug problems, bigger things to overcome and they looked the best doing it all. Buy this DVD, you won't regret it! "Motley Crue Tells All..." I've watched this DVD about 5x and this is one of the greatest Behind The Music episodes I have ever seen. Motley Crue takes for a ride on the wild side and tells you everything from the beginning of their lives through the early days of the band all the way up to 1999. They tell you secrets that no fan would ever think was possible. This band did it all, went through it all and lived it all. In addition to buying the DVD, the Crue's tellall book, "The Dirt" should be the next thing to buy from the Crue. The DVD and movie prove why Motley Crue was the most notorious rock and roll band to ever walk the earth. This DVD made me a Motley Crue fanatic. These guys are the greatest. Long live, MOTLEY CRUE! "Worth the price of admission..." Bassist Nikki Sixx begins by stating bluntly: "We wanted to !@#$ ALL the women and we wanted to snort ALL the drugs." And with that being said, VH1 kicks off its 65-minute raucous Behind the Music profile at the tempestuous lives of four heavy metal rebels that shook the foundation of the L.A. club scene and beyond. Love 'em or hate 'em, Motley Crue is presented here before you in all of their shameful and unsavory glory: from Vince's manslaughter case to Tommy's infamous porno video to Nikki's untimely death and subsequent rebirth. No stone is left unturned, though for true Crue fans some of the anecdotes may seem familiar, having been mentionned on previous documentary compilations such as their Greatest Hits Video release of the 90's. Adding some extra tidbits of footage, such as rare studio out-takes or additional rock star cameos, would have been cool and perhaps may have shed more light on an already dismal picture. But for an amusing albeit sardonic retrospective look back at the hey-days of 80's rock n' roll, this one's worth the price of admission...press play and take a ride on the wildside!