Gimme Danger

Iggy selects a victim for the evening

Jim Jarmusch's Gimme Danger is a nice valentine to those sweethearts of the 70s, Iggy and the Stooges. The Stooges reputation has grown in retrospect. At the time, they were far from a top tier group commercially, except in pockets of the Midwest, so very little live footage of them exists. Jarmusch has to make do with what he can: shaky video, talking heads, even animation. What results is a labor of love that will please fans and entrance the uninitiated.

What helps the film is that Mr. Pop is in a droll mood throughout. He may have been in bad shape as the "world's forgotten boy" in the 70s, but he is very comfortable in his leathery skin as a punk elder statesman who displays an intellectual bent that was quite hidden from view in the days of Metallic KO. Mr. Pop truly gives Gimme Danger its fizz.