A painful attempt to satirize the making of rock videos that runs aground with a puerile plot and bombastic, self-infatuated delivery.

It's all good fun: likeable performances, unpretentious, larky direction, and a haphazard story.

The amiable screenplay by Mr. Fishman and Peter McCarthy is often funny, and never worse than silly.

Ignored both at the cinema and on tape, this is a gem that is as happy sending up the music video world as it is poking fun at politics.