GIRLS ROCK! (2007) ¢ ¢ 1/2
D: Arne Johnson, Shane King
Girls aged 8 to 18 come together at a rock-&-roll camp in Oregon, where they form bands, jam, bicker, create, learn how to play their instruments (sort of), and at the end of five days, perform what they've come up with for an audience of several hundred people. A documentary with attitude, most of it supplied by its precocious subjects. Not surprisingly, it's the older girls who have the more complex issues and the more interesting stories to tell. Spending more than a few seconds in a small room filled with screaming 8-year-olds can be excruciating, especially when somebody hasn't taken her anti-diva medication. Rock on, grrrrls.
