The Go-Go’s 2020 123movies

Watch: The Go-Go’s 2020 123movies, Full Movie Online – As the first multi-platinum-selling, all-female band to play their own instruments, write their own songs and soar to No. 1 on the album charts, the Go-Go’s are the most successful female rock band of all time. Underpinned by candid testimonies from The Go-Go’s past and present, this documentary chronicles the meteoric rise to fame of a band born of the LA punk scene that not only captured but created a zeitgeist..
Plot: As the first all-female band to play their instruments, write their songs and have a No. 1 album, The Go-Go’s made history. Underpinned by candid testimonies, this film chronicles the meteoric rise to fame of a band born in the LA punk scene who became a pop phenomenon.
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Ratings:

	7.4/10 Votes: 1,523
	98% | RottenTomatoes
	81/100 | MetaCritic
	N/A Votes: 24 Popularity: 2.85 | TMDB

Reviews:

Excellent!
I’ve been eagerly waiting to see this since news of it was announced several months ago. I’m a longtime fan of The GoGos, actually I’m one of the Saturday Night Live viewers who bought their debut album right after they did the show in 1981; I could listen to We Got the Beat over and over again and never get tired of it. This is an excellent documentary, and it was terrific to see them in their very early punk days when they were just starting out. I can’t help but wonder if they’re still friendly with original members Margot Olavarria and Elissa Bello, or Paula Jean Brown, who was a short-term member after Jane Wiedlin’s temporary departure, since all three make appearances here. Kudos to director Alison Elwood for a fantastic film!

Rollicking documentary doubles as HOF application statement
“The Go-Go’s” (2020 release; 98 min.) is a documentary about “the most successful female rock band of all time”. As the movie opens, we are reminded (for the first, but not the last, time) that the Go-Go’s are the only all-female rock band to write and perform their own songs who scored a Billboard No. 1 album. We then go to “Los Angeles, 1979” as the local punk scene is small but ferocious and a number of the eventual Go-Go girls are very much a part of it (check the footage and photos of Jane Wiedlin attending a show at the Masque). We then turn to Belinda Carlisle as she too came up through the SoCal punk scene. “The punk scene was safe and welcoming” she comments. “You don’t know what you are doing? Just do it!” At this point we are 10 min. into the documentary.

Couple of comments: this is the latest from long-time documentarian Allison Ellwood. Here she brings the story of the Go-Go’s, very much like those erstwhile VH-1 “Behind the Music” episodes. The documentary’s first 45 min. are absolutely flawless, benefiting from the amazing amount of archive footage and pcitures from the early days. The band’s first (1980) tour of the UK (opening for the Specials and Madness) gets ample attention, and rightfully so. Equally transfixing is the band’s evolution from punk to new wave to pop. Confesses Charlotte Caffey (on writing “We Got the Beat”): “I was sacred. I thought the girls would throw me out of the band for writing a pop song.” Absolute genius! The band’s meteoric rise is as dazzling as it is dizzying (reaching No. 1 on the Billboard album chart with their 1981 debut album). They would never achieve such heights again. The second half of this documentary isn’t nearly as compelling as, predictably, it focuses on the band’s in-fighting, drug addictions and ultimate demise (and return). The biggest flaw, or annoyance, of this film, though, is the repeated pleas to get the Go-Go’s in the Rock ‘n Roll Hall of Fame. Do they belong? For sure. But hitting you over the head with this in a documentary isn’t really the way to go.

“The Go-Go’s” premiered a few days ago on Showtime, and is now available on SHO On Demand, Amazon Instant Video and other streaming platforms. If you are a fan of the Go-Go’s from back in the day, or simply are a music fan, I’d readily suggest you check this out, and draw your own conclusion.

Other Information:

Original Language en
Runtime 1 hr 38 min (98 min)
Budget 0
Revenue 0
Status Released
Rated TV-MA
Genre Documentary, Music
Director Alison Ellwood
Writer N/A
Actors The Go-Go’s, Charlotte Caffey, Elissa Bello
Country United States
Awards 2 wins & 2 nominations
Production Company N/A
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Aspect Ratio 1.78 : 1
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