"Aladdin", yes, what a good comparison to a film purporting to be a documentary about a music tour that actually happened in 1975.
Ignoring that, Bob is actually very funny - though obviously reading from cue cards at times; his deadpan delivery is very similar to his radio show voice-overs. I suspect though that this will be absolutely baffling to anyone not already very familiar with the tour itself.
And despite its entertaining silliness (the KISS riff is quite funny though the whole Sharon Stone joke goes on and on) it does seem a shame that we won't actually get a film about what really happened - I'm always happy to learn more about the Rolling Thunder Revue, but this film doesn't help with that in any way.
Still, some great performances, a few of them previously unseen (only a few unfortunately).
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