Full Review | Original Score: 3.5/4 | Aug 14, 2007

Prepare yourself for nights wandering around the house singing unshakable tunes.

Full Review | Original Score: 3/4 | Oct 3, 2003

The flabby, fawning film Gigantic comes across as 102 minutes of rib-nudging by one of the duo's annoyingly self-satisfied connoisseurs.

| Original Score: 1.5/4 | Sep 12, 2003

Tries to be as irreverent and bouncy as a song by its subject, and succeeds for the most part.

Full Review | Original Score: 3/4 | Aug 15, 2003

A modest amusement.

| Original Score: 2/4 | Aug 8, 2003

As tooting-your -own-horn documentaries about innovative alt-rockers who've been around for 20 years go, Gigantic: A Tale of Two Johns goes very well indeed.

| Original Score: 3/4 | Aug 7, 2003

| Original Score: 2/5 | Aug 3, 2003

Clever in a good way, this spirited documentary delves gently into the story of indie band They Might Be Giants, building a case for a couple of good-natured visionaries and pioneers who blazed trails for non-hair bands in the early days.

Full Review | Jul 10, 2003

Their sheer existence affirms that all things corporate and bland don't always win out -- that music can be intimate, political and alienating, sometimes all on the same album.

| Original Score: 3.5/4 | Jun 19, 2003

A gift for those already in the fold, for those who get the joke and just want to savor it with other like-minded fans.

| May 30, 2003

Does ample justice to the complexity, even profundity, of a creative collaboration that has brought deep joy and meaning to generations of fans throughout a career that just entered its third decade.

Full Review | May 30, 2003

The movie offers a generous helping of rock 'n' roll but no sex or drugs on the side, unless you count buckets of coffee, the group's stimulant of choice.

Full Review | Original Score: 3.5/5 | May 23, 2003

Musician Syd Straw unintentionally strikes truth when she sardonically asks about the film, 'Is this more like a fluff piece?'

Full Review | Original Score: 2.5/4 | May 23, 2003

It's hard to go wrong with documentary subjects as articulate and intriguing as childhood friends John Flansburgh and John Linnell.

Full Review | Original Score: 3/4 | May 23, 2003

As incessantly clever and coyly ironic as its subject's music.

Full Review | Original Score: 3/4 | May 22, 2003

If you thought that the party-down metalheads in The Decline of Western Civilization II were full of themselves, just wait until you enter the echo chamber of whimsical egomania that is alt-rock attitude.

| Original Score: C+ | May 21, 2003

They easily impress with their brainy charms and the documentary surrounding them continually reminds us that it's in on the joke as well.

| May 21, 2003

John and John, it cannot be denied, are charming, witty, adorable, and quite capable of rocking.

| May 20, 2003

Generous helpings of performance footage and band interviews will gratify the group's die-hard cult of fans. But there's stuff of interest here for general audiences, too.

Full Review | Original Score: 3/4 | Aug 2, 2002