2001 documentaryRating: 12/20
Plot: A documentary about how everybody in Ireland is ugly. Mainly, the cameras follow around one particular ugly Irishman, Shane MacGowan, former frontman for Irish folk-punkers The Pogues. He was also in an earlier band called The Nip Erectors. He drinks a lot, but a lot of other ugly people call him a genuis. But his self-destructive behavior threatens not only his musical career but also his life. Check out those teeth!
I love that the last line in this documentary is a woman saying, "Don't worry, Shane. Your teeth will grow back." Non-Pogues fans probably have no need to watch this. Lots of music, some old footage when Shane still had teeth and a voice like an angel. Or at least one of the two. There's also a lot of unintelligible interview footage which, I think we'd all agree, is the very best kind of interview footage.
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