Watch Alice Cooper: Good to See You Again For Free

SERIOUSLY. This is what the crap Hollywood still puts out?

Instead, you get a movie that's enjoyable enough, but leaves you feeling like it could have been much, much more.

Very good movie overall, highly recommended. Most of the negative reviews don't have any merit and are all pollitically based. Give this movie a chance at least, and it might give you a different perspective.

This is a coming of age storyline that you've seen in one form or another for decades. It takes a truly unique voice to make yet another one worth watching.

Firstly, a note that the 2005 Australia/New Zealand version of the DVD is the original 'Cooper Gang' one and not the 'old movies' re-edit. That said, the 'Cooper Gang' story itself is astonishingly bad. No wonder audiences rejected this boring, overplayed, seemingly improvised and consistently dreadful 'comedy'. Probably great fun to make, but more than a chore to watch. If you want to actually enjoy these segments however, select Alice's commentary and prepare to laugh heartily (this DVD would have been graded seven out of ten were this feature absent). Of course, the meat of the matter is the 1973 concert footage, and it is uniformly excellent. He may have gone all Muppet Show and become a Hammy Horror solo star, but here's what got up Straight America's collective nose about Alice Cooper in the first place. Alice, his music and the taboo-pushing stage show were nasty, funny, sick and sometimes genuinely creepy (the mannequins! The spittle!), but seldom boring. Again, Alice provides a seriously witty commentary to the proceedings, and one can select the 'play concert only' option to excise entirely the 'Cooper Gang' saga.

I don't intend on "spoiling it," but in case I do so inadvertently, there is the forewarning: I don't want to be banned.Alice Cooper was the ultimate post-1960's reaction to mid-1950's phenomenon. The urban legend of the name "Alice Cooper" deriving its origins from a "17th Century Witch," coupled with outrageous stage-antics ala Grand Guignol, only served to heighten the furor of that more tranquil, but yet still "boiling time." One must remember that, when "Love It To Death" (one of their best albums, it certainly beat "Killer" and "School's Out.") came out, the sixties hug-fest was over. "The Ballad of Dwight Frye" and "Caught In A Dream," captured perfectly the absolute futility of all established "norms." Truth be told, Shep Gordon and Bob Ezrin were as much responsible for "The Alice Cooper Group," perhaps even more-so, at the beginning, tban Alice himself.That being said, I feel the charges levelled at Alice by former band member Michael Bruce to be largely unfounded. Of course, he was there and I wasn't--however, the power, strength and above all *depth* of the original ACG was Alice himself--this is *so* evident during "Welcome To My Nightmare" (Alice Cooper's greatest work!) that it bears repeating.That being said, there *were* some great contributions by the other bandmembers--however, none of them could sustain the image and sick-glamor of Alice himself...

Excellent documentary on the original Alice Cooper BAND. Works in some amusing sidepieces, and features most of the big hits, excellently played and presented. But this was the '70's, so, in the tradition of "Myra Breckinridge" and the like, much of it has been re-edited to provide commentary by contrasting the band with old film clips. Other than the Shirley Temple footage, most of this is pretty weak, and quite distracting from the concert footage. I have heard that a version is out there that does not have all this ancillary footage, but I have never seen one. I've never seen a proper release of this, but it is found at many record shows, and all over the grey market.--Judex.1--

This film does a bang-up job at capturing the live feel of the original Alice Cooper group's 1973 "Billion Dollar Babies" tour. In this viewer's opinion, this was Alice Cooper at his prime. Too bad this has never been produced and distributed on video or dvd....it's a great time capsule of the earliest origins of shock rock.