The Dirt Review: 5 Ups & 7 Downs

4. It's Come Out At Entirely The Wrong Time

Motley Crue are to progressive thinking what mary Whitehouse was to creative liberalism. They're story is one deeply, deeply rooted in a period that was way too invested in sexual exploitation, when bands wrote songs about their genitals and built careers and reputations on them. It was a bubble that was yet to be pricked by awareness or consequences.

Because this film is basically a love letter to that era - and will resonate with those who went through it (or still live it) - the representation of women is very much what it is in a Motely Crue video. They're one-dimensional, more-often-than-not naked and given precious little to say, think or do. There is no hint of equality in here, which is absolutely the point, but there's also no comment on that at all, which is unfortunate at best and entirely distasteful at worst.

It really, really doesn't help that some of the framing is little more than puerile too.