Vince Neil, Nikki Sixx, Mick Mars, and Tommy Lee look tired. Not tired like they just stayed up for 48 hours-while-simultaneously-rocking-your-face-off-tired, more like why-did-we-bother-reuniting-and-rehashing-old-hits tired. Don't get me wrong, they are selling out arenas. Lots of them. But in the process, they come off with a freak-show of a tour that looks like it was better suited for when they were young and in shape. Instead of helping their fans relive the glory of when it was cool to be metal, they look like a bunch of old guys trying to remember how to rock, and pulling the same cliché hair band moves and crowd interaction as they did back in their heyday.

The DVD starts out with a clay-mation short that shows half the band looking NOTHING like they actually do in real life. I can't even recall the conversation that ensued, but I'm sure it was something relating to them still being relevant enough to rock the faces off young girls who would swoon at their every hip-flexing motion. I honestly fast-forwarded through most of it to get to the real meat….the music. The show opens with a long drawn out intro, complete with a pretty dumb looking clown, and two skanks crawling out of a box to make out, just before the guys hit the stage. Hey, if it's your thing, great. I thought it was pretty stupid.

The music itself isn't bad. If you're a Crue fan, you'd love it. Even if you were a radio-hits Crue fan, you will still enjoy this. The band sounds tight, and Vince's vocals admittedly, sound great. His voice has really held up over the years. Part of me has to wonder if there were parts of the audio that were overdubbed, but I'll give them the benefit of the doubt. I think, at least musically, they are pretty dead on. What really ruins the dvd for me is the band's stage antics. Maybe this reviewer's just becoming an old geezer, but much of what they did on stage seemed so overdone and formulaic (ie-"This is a love song, and it goes a little somethin' like this….."), that it's really pretty disappointing. If you took out all the pointless chatter, Tommy Lee's never-ending TERRIBLE drum solo, muted Tommy's mic, and made this a cd-only release, it might have been much better. As for the set, you can rest assured that if you saw the tour, they played the same set, and if there's a song you're looking for, you'll find that they played it.

The 2nd disc of the DVD, touted as the big reason to buy this DVD, contains a few videos ("Sick Love Song," "If I Die Tomorrow," and "On with the Show"), an extensive behind-the-scenes look at just what it took to put the tour together, and a segment showcasing "Tommy's Titty Cam", the part of the show where Tommy videotapes women in the crowd willing to flash him and the entire audience. Again, if he's a strapping 20 year old, great. But with Tommy Lee as a nearly-40 year old, it just comes off as creepy.