Fresh
Prepare yourself for nights wandering around the house singing unshakable tunes.
Liam Lacey, Globe and Mail
Gigantic (A Tale of Two Johns)
2003 · 1h 42m · N/A
Documentary, Music
Directed by
AJ Schnack
Overview
John Flansburgh & John Linnell met in the 1970s as junior high students in Lincoln, Massachusetts. A decade later, their band—They Might Be Giants—would stand at the forefront of a burgeoning East Village NYC performance art scene as well as the college music revolution of the late 1980s. Filmed in 2001, ‘Gigantic (A Tale of Two Johns)’ is the acclaimed true story, tracing their independent and sometimes hilarious path through two decades in the pop music wilderness. From their legendary Dial-a-Song answering machine, to their Grammy Award-winning theme song for ‘Malcolm in the Middle’, fans and friends gather to tell the oral history of Brooklyn's finest alternative rock band.
Director and cast
Critics on Rotten Tomatoes
Top critics, in their words
82%
Tomatometer
Rotten
The flabby, fawning film Gigantic comes across as 102 minutes of rib-nudging by one of the duo's annoyingly self-satisfied connoisseurs.
Michael Booth, Denver Post
Fresh
Predictably, Flansburgh and Linnell are the saving grace of the movie, both in their interview segments (refreshingly witty, although the editing could have been tighter) and particularly in the live footage.
Mark Brown, Denver Rocky Mountain News
Fresh
Tries to be as irreverent and bouncy as a song by its subject, and succeeds for the most part.
Erik Lundegaard, Seattle Times
Fresh
A modest amusement.
James Sullivan, San Francisco Chronicle
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