Product Details

• Actors: Mick Jagger, Bill Wyman, Keith Richards, Charlie Watts, Ron Wood
• Directors: Julien Temple
• Producers: Paul Spencer
• Format: NTSC
• Rating: NR (Not Rated)
• Number of tapes: 1
• Studio: Lions Gate/Vestron
• VHS Release Date: April 27, 1988
• Run Time: 60 minutes
• Average Customer Review: 3.2 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (5 customer reviews)
• ASIN: 6302626684
• Amazon.com Sales Rank: #15,555 in Video (See Bestsellers in Video)

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5 of 7 people found the following review helpful:

2.0 out of 5 stars Coulda been a whole lot better, October 4, 2002

By	birddogger5150 (Roseville, MN USA) - See all my reviews

This overly ambitious video is centered around an ongoing storyline where Bill Wyman poses as a museum security guard to gain access to the closed-off rock n' roll memorabilia section. There he discovers Mick Jagger encased in glass and "awakens" him so they can reminisce over some video clips of their "old" band. Clever and well done, but the focus seems to be more on the storyline than the videos, most of which are mediocre at best. There are also many things about the collection that really tick you off. The sound mastering is horrendous. The clip for "Miss You" (which admittedly isn't that great to begin with - Charlie Watts does his best to look like Abe Vigoda) is constantly interrupted by meaningless footage of Wyman and Jagger in the museum. The video for "Brown Sugar" is nothing more than a hodgepodge of concert performances of the song poorly edited together, purely for the purpose of this collection it seems. The "Start Me Up" clip is NOT the so-bad-it's-good early-MTV clip of Jagger in his form-fitting purple-striped muscle shirt cockstrutting around the other band members on a poorly-lit soundstage, it's a pointless live performance from the 1981 tour which only serves to show the end credits to this collection. Some clips are god-awful boring ("Angie"), while others are shamelessly edited down to nothing ("Waiting On A Friend", "Emotional Rescue"). Only "Neighbors", "She's So Cold", and the trio of well-crafted videos from "Undercover" ("Undercover of the Night", "She Was Hot", and "Too Much Blood") save this from being a total waste of time.

2 of 3 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars Probably the best we'll get., December 30, 2004

By	Natasha Conn (Las Cruces, NM USA) - See all my reviews

Outside of bootleggers' copies of the Stones video history, this is probably the best representation of their '70s/early '80s era that we'll get from a band not particularly known for being organized. While sadly lacking the great 'Start Me Up'-'Stones craggily arise from the ashes for another decade'- video, 'She's So Cold' is goofy fun, 'Too Much Blood' is Mick in vintage mid-life crisis, and 'Waiting On A Friend,' even abbreviated, will cut deep into anyone who's ever spent a summer in that most transient of cities, NY. Plus, the between video excerpts of Keith quotes and pieces of bearded Jagger and 'Hey, Negrita' perform the perfect magician's trick of giving us a faint glimpse of the enormity of the band's history. Buy it used and have some fun.

3 of 5 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Only "Gimmie Shelter" Is Better Than This, July 7, 2005

By	Bill Board (God's Wrath, Ohio) - See all my reviews

This is absolutly, unequivocably the very best..."packaging" of the Rolling Stones in the early daze of video. The "plot?" Well,the now-retired Bassist, Bill Wyman dresses himself as a museum curator and sneaks into some generic museum's "locked-up exhibits" room. We wanders around some "exhibits," and finds an ancient computer which triggers the videos "She Was Hot" and "She's So Cold." The "She Was Hot" video alone justifes the entire "Rewind" video - watch, especially, for Keith Richards' experience with a torrid redhead. Bill views all-too-brief clips of Mick performing "Hey Negrita" and the infamous "Midnight Rambler-slap the belt on the floor" routine. He muses, "The old devil - 'ey, he must be around here somewhere!" He finds Mick trapped in a distinctly "Mick Jagger Pose," encased in a glass booth - and the scene where the discovery is made and Mick taps on the glass and begs, "Let Me Out" is absoluetly hilarious. Bill plays around on the computer some more, and after generating the "Neighbors," part of the "Emotional Rescue," and the "Waiting For A Friend" videos, he then generates a hilarious "interview" with the Stones, circa the "Some Girls" era. And once again, Keith steals the show, when he replies to an unctuous "interviewer," "I haven't had any problems with drugs, only policemen." Bill says, "HE must in in 'ere somewhere," and Mick sort of whispers, "I think he's in 'ere" - and when he and Bill pull the sheet off the "Keith" exhibit, the glass is broken (no Keith!), and Bill observes, "He must've gone out for another bottle!" - and Keef's "top-A chime on the guitar" riff triggers the beautiful "Angie" video. Further treats in "Video Rewind" include the Keef and Bobby Keys dropping a television set out of a hotel window, and then, we get our first glimpse of the infamous "airplane scene" from the still-unreleased "C********r Blues" video (are you listening, Robert Frank, and/or Allen Klien?) Whew! And that's just the tip of the iceberg (sort of)! To close, this is basically just a vehicle for "MTV-era" Stones' videos, but it's encased in a very, very funny, "laugh-out-loud" milieu starring Bill and Mick. "Video Rewind" is no "Stones' story" kind of thing, as is the most excellent "25 X 5," it's just sheer escapism entertainment. And it, along with Michael Nesmith's "Elephant Parts," are THE TWO videos for "party" (a'huh-huh-huh) purposes. Enjoy yourself! Tell 'em beatsuburban recommended these!