Gorillaz — Bananaz

I can't even conceptualize how long it must have taken Ceri Levy and company to put Bananaz together. Imagine shooting a documentary over six years and then deciding what footage to use. It must have been a nightmare, a great joy or perhaps both.

Bananaz follows Blur's Damon Albarn and animator Jamie Hewlett — the minds behind the animated rock band known as Gorillaz — from the year prior to their self-titled debut album's 2001 release to the year after the release of their 2005 Demon Days sophomore album.

Bananaz comes across very disjointed at times, and that's understandable. It mustn't have been an easy task to assemble six years of footage into an hour-and-a-half documentary (which probably explains the additional hour of bonus footage). But though it's presented in a very stream of consciousness, almost fractured way, you don't lose track of time or what's going on in the film.

You get a good idea of the insanity that surrounds the duo, whose world seems just as surreal as that of the characters they've created. One second they're in the studio with guest Ibrahim Ferrer, the next they're performing in front of a screen on the other side of the Atlantic. Cameos from Danger Mouse, Ferrer, Dennis Hopper, De La Soul, D12 and others only add to this sense of the unreal.

Although Levy's project is at times overzealous it fits with the idea of Gorillaz as a multimedia art experience for this generation.