"(she will)...stand through the ages as one of punk rock's founding mothers...mythical to me...breaking every and any barrier for women in...rock...If you're an ardent feminist.....Wiliams will worm her way into your heart, guaranteed...the DVD (will make) sure the jaw-dropping, risk-taking moves of this consummate performer will not be...forgotten"
ABSOLUTE UNDERGROUND
"a winner....
rare footage, vintage live performances and more...
Classic"
CARBON 14
"The highlight of the package for sure is the live footage...which wholly succeeds in showcasing why (Wendy) deserves the icon status that she achieved over the course of her career and since her untimely death."
ACCESS Magazine
"Not evcen the Sex Pistols or The Clash could create the controversy that Wendy O Williams and the Plasmatics inflicted on the States during the late 70s and early 80s....the US government stepped in and tried to cancel her shows...(with)... death-defying videos...this...rockumentary...graphcially shows what all the fuss was about. ...A fitting tribute to her...legacy"
EXCLAIM Magazine
"punk rock's most shocking experimental artists...a stunning look...a plethora of interview footage....laying out virtually everything from the band's initial stages as an experimental punk art project through Williams final more metallic days."
"an incredible DVD that charts the life of Wendy O. Williams...the rise of the Plasmatics, from the band's formation by Rod Swenson (the conceptual artist who visualized the band as an embodiment of art versus the establishment, the battering ram to smash the state), through their early punk records...into a heavy metal vehicle for Wendy to do what she did best, shock and outrage audiences the world over... led by the only performer who managed to transcend the gender roles so beloved by the music industry, Wendy O. Williams, who walked it exactly as she talked it"
THE RISE AND THE FALL:
"WOW..radical....queen of shock rock......one of the greats...pioneered the fusing of punk and metal....From her arrests in Cleveland and Mlwaukee to being banned in London...From blowing up cars to chainsawing through guitars and sledgehammering TVs, it's all here....a must have or see for fans or anyone else for that matter"
POPMATTERS
"lost treasure from the vault...When I watched Wendy O. Williams and the Plasmatics felt l like I'd stumbled across one of the greatest bands I'd ever heard, I didn't need to stretch the truth to make grandiose claims about the Plasmatics' importance.
...confrontationally political...the Plasmatics couldn't have been more aesthetically at war with...the 80s odd couple of consumer hedonism and the kingship of Reagan's feral religious right...death-defying...Plasmatics concerts ...melded leftest performance art with an energy that foams like a can of Coke shaken on a paint mixer...the live footage alone makes the DVD worth purchasing"
MAXIMUM ROCK AND ROLL
"a new documentary about the legendary band....The film covers in minute detail of the ten-year existence of the band Rod Swenson and Wendy O. Williams formed as an art statement. The film covers their humble punk beginnings, the rising popularity, the run-ins with the law, the band line-up changes, and their transformation into a metal band. It is an engrossing story."
FILM FANADDICT Magazine
"finally gives fans a commercial release from the legendary, amazing, highly influential...band/artist...
...it is great to finally see something available on one of the....greatest bands of all time."
