Review of Can't Buy Me Lunch: Another Look at The Rutles (2003) by Nathan S — 24 Jan 2011

This movie made me HATE Eric Idle. Why? Because when the Rutles recorded their reunion album in 1996, Eric refused to participate because he felt the joke had been done. Years later, he would swipe songs from that album, poorly match them with performance footage from the first film, and put out this turd without the involvement of other three Rutles.

While the avalanche of celebrity cameos are fun, the reused footage becomes painful to sit through, and Eric's revisions to the Rutles backstory are pointless and serve no purpose but to piss all over the original (almost as if he was getting back at co-creator Neil Innes).

Stick with the first movie, and ignore this one... it's a waste.