'Still Crazy', the story of the comeback of fictional seventies rockers Strange Fruit, has a televisual feel to it, and a formulaic construction: there's little in the tale that you wouldn't expect. But it's also genuinely funny in quite a number of places, and offers a believably shambolic representation of its heroes. It has to be said that the group are more convincing when they're meant to be bad then in their eventual triumph, when they're dependent on the limited talents of Jimmy Naill to pass themselves off as a much-loved institution. But the piece lacks the pretensions of Todd Haynes' 'Velvet Goldmine' and can be enjoyed as simple fun, rather more enjoyable then perhaps it should be.
Review of Still Crazy
