MMMBop ‘Til You MMMDrop

The relentlessly upbeat tone of this documentary perfectly fits the buoyant mood of Hanson’s hits, which are flogged nearly to death throughout 82 minutes of performance clips, videos, backstage interviews and sightseeing excursions shot during the Tulsa teen sensations’ world tour promoting their million-selling “Middle of Nowhere” album.

When not on stage or engaging in slightly awed, fresh-faced chats about their success, brothers Ike, Taylor and Zac do a lot of running and jumping, tearing around like three blond Monkees as they take their video camera on amusement park rides and blast away in a London arcade.

None of this is very revealing, nor are the interview segments--standard bits in which they talk about the making of their hit “MMMBop,” what it’s like to be stars and their love of harmony. Nothing seems more amazing to them, however, than the decibel levels their screaming female fans can reach (upward of 140 at one show).

Those legions are likely to care more that the Hanson brothers come off as likable and goofy here, rather than that they pull off impressive bits of effortless a cappella harmonizing. So it shouldn’t matter at all that in spite of their catchy hooks, the songs quickly begin to blend into one another, proving surprisingly homogeneous beneath their bubbly, well-scrubbed exteriors.