Unglued Reviews

Released in advance of their Good Morning Revival album, Marvin Scott Jarrett’s rockumentary Fast Future Generation follows the four boys of Good Charlotte (they were between permanent drummers again at the time of filming) on their 2005 tour of Japan during the final legs of promotion for The Chronicles Of Life And Death, and basically offers nothing new for anyone who’s ever seen ‘behind-the-scenes’ footage of a band on tour. Good Charlotte could be any other successful group as they travel between gigs, engage in inarticulate interviews, psyche themselves up before shows, and try to keep themselves amused during the time they’re not performing. The profiles on each member attempt to make them interesting (succeeding most with “Billy the artist”) but watching the Madden brothers get free clothing and jewellery and then rag on the celebrity lifestyle (as well as ranting about the media and Eddie Vedder) wears thin. To make things worse, only snippets of live performances are included – no complete songs. **

DVD: There are no extras, but the footage looks great and sounds fine, except for the intermittent muting of parts of conversations, presumably to censor profanity. **

Owen Heitmann