Commentary: The ‘Beastie Boys Story’ did not impress our critics
Adam Horovitz and Michael Diamond join director Spike Jonze from their separate coronavirus quarantines to talk “Beastie Boys Story,” which captures their blazing days with the late Adam Yauch .As a lifelong Beastie Boys fan, I was happy to take the nostalgia trip this movie represents — especially in the second month of quarantine, when you’re grateful to take any trip at all.
For sure, Jonze — who worked with the band for years, including on their iconic “Sabotage” music video — has a certain flair in the way he presents those images. I loved some of the moments when he’s got Mike D and Ad-Rock gazing up at younger versions of themselves, looking chagrined by their immature behavior or bobbing their heads to an old song of theirs.
Spike Jonze, left, Adam Horovitz and Mike Diamond outside the live show rehearsals for the “Beastie Boys Story.”Even though the film didn’t really promise a lot of new revelations, I’m also a Beasties fan, so was game to take a trip back to their obnoxious beginnings . Hardcore punk, hip-hop, rock, alternative — they weren’t any one thing, because they pulled from so many different scenes, styles and decades. And they always evolved.
In part, this is their way of acknowledging Yauch’s role as the band’s clear thought leader; it was his awakening — as reflected in a song like “Sure Shot,” where he famously said, “The disrespect to women has got to be through” — that led the other two guys into the light. I was moved throughout to see how much Mike D and Ad-Rock looked up to — still look up to — their late bandmate .
Which may well have been the case. But a deeper, more thorough documentary on the group might’ve sought a response from those two — not to mention from Kate Schellenbach, the Beasties’ original drummer, whose mistreatment by the band is described repeatedly, albeit not by her.
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