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