it's a love letter, far more polished and smoothed-out than the genre-defying trio might have deserved in their anarchic heyday, but as warm and reflective as you might expect from the middle-aged men they are now
if the movie itself is an imperfect document of the Beasties as a band, it's moments like those that deliver something sweeter, at least for the faithful: a pleasingly shambolic Story of three Boys, and the better men they came to be
engaging, oddly moving film from Spike Jonze; This film is a time capsule of the 1980s: an era that was crass and excessive in so many ways, but now seems weirdly exotic
"Beastie Boys Story" is less seamless, but more personal, than a classic documentary; the film does a meticulous job of presenting the evolution of Adam Yauch, who was always on the edge of technology, as well as postmodern pranksterism
