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Dir: Sacha Gervasi.
Description: Back in the '80s, Canadian heavy metallers Anvil was the one outfit expected to rock to superstardom in the wake of the hugely influential album, Metal On Metal. Yet while other acts such as Anthrax, Metallica and Slayer achieved their dreams, Anvil faded into obscurity. This documentary meets school friends Steve "Lips" Kudlow and Robb Reiner some 20 years after their glory days as they continue to chase the impossible dream during a catastrophic European tour. Now in their fifties, Steve and Robb reminisce about the past as they prepare to record a new album and return to Japan, the scene of one of their greatest triumphs.
Country: US. 2008. 80mins
Anvil are a Canadian heavy-metal outfit who try to keep rockin’ into their fifties, and generally don’t succeed. Wives and even their children abjure them to stop but they just keep going, between lousy, ill-paid jobs and gigs in small towns no one else would want. Are they fools or heroes? Sacha Gervasi, the director of this documentary, makes them out to be the latter. But he doesn’t baulk at describing them as heroic fools as well.
Anvil would say, of course, that they missed their moment in the Eighties when they appeared on the same bills as Bon Jovi and Whitesnake and that those artists now regard them as precursors of the genre. No wonder they want to go on. You can’t help admiring their guts, even though you know they are not very good. You also can’t help hoping they will somehow or other get noticed again. A large number of no-good bands are now millionaires, so why shouldn’t Anvil stave off poverty?
After the screening of the film I was at, the band suddenly sprang on stage and went through their favourite numbers, to a standing ovation from the audience, some of whom were blubbing.
That’s as much a tribute to the film as to Anvil, nice as they seem. It paints them without patronising or posturing, rocking on regardless.
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Even if you don’t like metal, this is a movie to enjoy almost as much as Cut Loose and Mad Dog, their most faithful fans, undoubtedly will.
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