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With its promise of focusing on Madonna’s career as a performer and providing rare footage, the blurb on the back of the cover raises our hopes. Perhaps we’d see some quality archive film, insider stories from Madonna’s tours, contributions from Gaultier, the dancers, set designers, crew and so on... Sadly this is not the case. Instead, we’re firmly back into unofficial biopic territory, opening with the tired “struggling girl from Michigan done good” story and descending into a confused and tedious patchwork of clips from the widely available official videos. The only contributory interviews are from an array of "experts" droning on about why Madonna is a gay icon, how shocking she is, blah blah blah. Mark Kamins, producer of her debut single, sounds like a worthy interviewee but how many Madonna docs has he been in already? The “rare" footage is a case of blink-and-you’ll-miss it and there's only two clips which we can call rare at a push. The “rarely seen photos” seem to have been pulled from books that are as widely available to anyone. The DVD "extras" aren't even worth getting excited about either. There's biographies of the contributors most of whom have bored us rigid already so why would we care to know about them? And "The Ultimate Madonna Quiz" which isn't much fun once you've done it. At best this may be of some interest to someone who has never heard of Madonna, though they’d be better off purchasing an official DVD of Madonna - a live one or a collection of her videos to see what a great performer she is.Read full review
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