A documentary that remains halfway through the Bee Gees' career. There is a lot of music and good pace, but it turns out to be a mediocre approach, which only sparsely addresses the problems of alcoholism, drugs and personal disputes. The virtue is to publicize the previous music of the Bee Gees, before disco music; the fault is to offer an incomplete, kind view that avoids talking about the negative aspects of fame.

Excellent documentary charting their background, their early/mid career and touches on their later career - but the strong tinges of sadness that permeate the documentary come to the fore at the end.

It's a quite sobering and sad tale despite the musical highs these quite astonishing brothers managed to scale.

Say what you want about their music - and then accept that they're quite simply fantastic songwriters.

I'd have liked a little more representation of their years as elder statesmen of music but with all the illnesses, deaths, etc I can understand that the meat of the story is the earlier years. I'd also have liked more music being given the spotlight - Barry' s demo of his Streisand songs for instance merely plays in the background for 10 seconds.

Overall, a highly pleasing but ultimately sombre watch.


7.5/10

I’m not a Bee Gees fan, but I love and respect great music as a music lover. This is a good retrospect of the brothers start, success, super stardom and there fallout from the “disco sucks” era. The brothers always worked so well together and maintained their work ethic throughout their careers. You just got to have respect for the talent and what they accomplished together as brothers in greedy music business.

I was lucky enough to see the Bee Gees in concert in Birmingham, UK in the early ‘90s. One of the best concert experiences of my life.

I believe this film is testament to the view that life is truly what you make of it. 3 brothers who had a vision, a belief and worked to make that happen. So inspirational.