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  • 2015
  • TV-14
  • Fathom Events
  • 1 h 41 m
  • 2015
  • TV-14
  • Fathom Events
  • 1 h 41 m

Summary A behind-the-scenes look at the popular boy band, Backstreet Boys, that takes us through the many highs and lows that led the band to return to the studio in 2012, write a new album and plan their 20th anniversary relaunch. The reunion renewed friendships but dynamic shifts reveal new and old tensions that need confronting and resolving....

Directed By: Stephen Kijak

  • 2015
  • TV-14
  • Fathom Events
  • 1 h 41 m
  • 2015
  • TV-14
  • Fathom Events
  • 1 h 41 m

Backstreet Boys: Show 'Em What You're Made Of

Metascore Mixed or Average Based on 6 Critic Reviews
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Summary A behind-the-scenes look at the popular boy band, Backstreet Boys, that takes us through the many highs and lows that led the band to return to the studio in 2012, write a new album and plan their 20th anniversary relaunch. The reunion renewed friendships but dynamic shifts reveal new and old tensions that need confronting and resolving....

Directed By: Stephen Kijak

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70
Jan 27, 2015
Show 'Em What You're Made Of convincingly argues that these boy-men have something to say about the fickleness of fate — something they knew more about as young men than any of the cynics who dismissed them for dancing in unison. The hardest part will be convincing people to listen.
By Amy Nicholson FULL REVIEW
60
Jan 29, 2015
Even if Show 'Em What You're Made Of doesn't answer McLean's essential question of what men do after life as a boy band, the carefully crafted film is an engaging look at how they got to here.
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40
Feb 23, 2015
This tale of the manufactured pop group – fractured by fall-outs and drug abuse and now trying to ‘find’ themselves as they reflect on their career – is nauseating even for a long-term fan.
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40
Jan 29, 2015
Director Stephen Kijak, who previously explored far more compelling musical territory with Scott Walker: 30 Century Man, has delivered a behind-the-scenes portrait that should please the band's diehard fans but offers little of substance to the uninitiated.
By Frank Scheck FULL REVIEW
40
Jan 29, 2015
True, the Boys are thoughtful and eloquent, and the whole package is engaging enough to hold even a newcomer’s attention, but the end result is an incomplete story of a forgotten band hoping to celebrate — or should I say sell-abrate — an anniversary no one else remembered.
By Elizabeth Weitzman FULL REVIEW
30
Jan 29, 2015
It is insight-free and cliché-heavy, with the five sharing obvious reminiscences about the thrill of superstardom, visiting haunts from their youth, shooting baskets and occasionally rehearsing.
By Neil Genzlinger FULL REVIEW
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Production Company Pulse Films
Release Date Jan 30, 2015
Duration 1 h 41 m
Rating TV-14
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Website http://backstreetboys.com/bsbthemovie
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