Five Guys, Nine Arms
When the VH1 video tape of "Hysteria: The Def Leppard Story" landed on my desk last week, I got very nervous. Oh, dear God no! Why me?
I feared being trapped watching another one of those awful "true-life" band movies, which are the modern day equivalent of the baseball biopics they used to make in the '50s - big, cleaned up versions of famous people's lives.
So, my mood was not good as I approached "Hysteria: The Def Leppard Story." But I was wrong. The music is great, the acting's good, the storyline works, and aside from a script that cleans up the heavy metal band's act a little too much, the whole thing works.