Synopsis
The story of Mötley Crüe and their rise from the Sunset Strip club scene of the early 1980s to superstardom.
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Cast
- Machine Gun KellyTommy Lee
- Douglas BoothNikki Sixx
- Daniel WebberVince Neil
- Iwan RheonMick Mars
- Pete DavidsonTom Zutaut
- David CostabileDoc McGhee
- Aaron Jay RomeKayla's Boyfriend
- Alyssa Marie StilwellKayla
- Brittany FurlanBiker Chick
- Trace MastersFrank Feranna, Jr., Age 8
Recommendations
- 75
Entertainment Weekly
It’s cartoonish, fast-paced, a bit cheesy, and ridiculously dumb fun. - 63
Slant Magazine
Like most biopics, The Dirt crams so many events into its narrative as to compromise the sense that these are real characters in the here and now. - 60
New Orleans Times-Picayune
I'm not sure how much of The Dirt is good, old-fashioned hyperbole. Good lord, I hope a lot of it is, although I'm sure the band -- the members of which wrote the book on which the film is based in addition to serving as co-producers -- would swear everything in it is true. - 50
The Hollywood Reporter
None of it adds up to much beyond painting the band, despite their often repellently bad behavior, in a flattering light. - 40
Variety
It’s just a thinly written (by Rich Wilkes and Amanda Adelson), generically staged (by Jeff Tremaine, director of the “Jackass” films) VH1-style sketchbook of a movie — which is to say, it’s a Netflix film, with zero atmosphere, overly blunt lighting, and a threadbare post-psychological telegraphed quality that gives you nothing to read between the lines. - 33
IndieWire
Rock biopics often struggle with the part after the party’s over, but The Dirt becomes unusually adrift; at times, you can’t even tell what decade you’re supposed to be watching. - 33
The Playlist
The Dirt is ultimately supposed to be an unapologetic tribute to living the fast life, but in the end, it’s just painfully dated and pointless with zero depth or insights. - 25
RogerEbert.com
You could listen to Dr. Feelgood two full times during the run time of The Dirt and learn just about as much about the band as you do in this R-rated Wikipedia article of a movie. And you’d have way more fun.
