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1996
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3.7
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4.5
Hype! is a smart look at an important musical event that featured a lot of great music almost as a by product.
Av Club
4.0
Hype! leaves the viewer invigorated, filled with awe and wonder at the moronic inferno that is modern celebrity journalism, and commiserating in advan ..
4.4
The fascination of Hype! is watching a bandwagon hurtling out of control, fueled not so much by those on board as those pushing it from behind.
San Francisco Chronicle
4.4
The filmmakers also made a wise choice in not overlaying Hype! with the judgmental edge of a narrator. They merely allow the participants to tell thei ..
San Francisco Chronicle
3.1
The film makers themselves dont seem to understand the deep cultural resonances created by this hype. Worse, they endorse the selfishness of the Seatt ..
Ny Daily News
3.0
Four years ago, Seattle was where the home of the Space Needle. Now its a rock n roll mecca: You may ask yourself how did we get here And filmmaker Do ..
Tv Guide
4.5
Doug Prays 1996 documentary about the manufacturing of the Seattle sound is an informative and well made collection of sound bites, music bites, and t ..
Chicago Reader
3.0
While the seemingly endless procession of obscure bands does get a bit wearisome, it does at least mean this isnt the Kurt Cobain skewed, cash in feat ..
Radio Times
1.5
But thats necessary for the film to have a coherent narrative structure.
Deseret News (Salt Lake Ci ..
3.8
I am one of the least likely people on this planet to be recommending a documentary about the grunge movement in Seattle. Nevertheless, this review wi ..
Internet Reviews
1.5
At least thats what Hype, a cozy little documentary about the grunge phenomenon, would like you to think.
Salon
4.5
These are some of the worst dressed people youre likely to see in a film this year, or any year, yet they all deliver beautifully articulated, trencha ..
La Times
4.4
Its a story filled with manic energy, sick humor and triumph of the lame attitude.
Articles Chicago Tribune
3.5
It isnt easy to make a smug gazillionaire sympathetic, but Gibson does . . .
Seattle Times
4.4
The first time director, Doug Pray, doesnt linger long on anything, but the movie is so crisply and intelligently edited that you never feel youre bei ..
Seattle Times
3.8
Seattle is overrun with record company executives, and with journalists eager to over analyze the most banal details of grunge culture. Can any form o ..
Articles Philly
3.1
Between these lulls is a compact, interesting chronicle of an extraordinarily fertile local music community and what happens when its talent becomes a ..
Articles Philly
4.4
An energizing dive into a strange, strange slice of rock history.
Enquirer
4.5
Hype! shows the cheesy, ludicrous, dark and decadent sides of grunge as well as the intense attraction and influence it has on its fans.
Boxoffice Magazine
3.8
But Prays study isnt meant as a serious indictment, not of greed nor of the mainstream culture as a whole.
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