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‘The Beach Boys’ Review: The New Documentary on Disney+ Captures Their Story Note for Dreamy Note
The new Disney+ documentary really gets the Beach Boys, capturing their saga in archival photographs and critical voices that illuminate their magic.
“The Beach Boys,” co-directed by Frank Marshall (who made the 2020 music-doc milestone “The Bee Gees: How Can You Mend a Broken Heart”) and Thom Zimny (who’s directed about a thousand Springsteen videos), accomplishes all of that nicely. I’m more than capable of enjoying a pop-music documentary that’s a little too starry-eyed for its own good, like “Billie Eilish: The World’s a Little Blurry” or “Coldplay: A Head Full of Dreams” or “ZZ Top: That Little Ol’ Band from Texas” or “Pink: All I Know So Far” or “The Greatest Night in Pop.” But I’m also on record as complaining that too many of these movies now leave out any critical perspective — and by that I don’t just mean recognizing when an artist fails. The movie goes deep into the sound and meaning of their harmony: the way they began to sing together as kids, their voices fusing with a genetic unity (it was the three Wilson brothers, their cousin Mike Love, along with their friend Al Jardine).
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