Review of Summer Dreams: The Story of the Beach Boys

I recognized most of the key points in the movie from biographies I have read in the past, so I assume it is fairly historically-accurate. However, the biopic is very rushed. It's never all that clear what time period you are in, skips over large chunks of time, and it treats everything as equally important. Brian Wilson literally goes from a clean cut Beach Boy to looking like modern-day Haley Joel Osment within minutes, and certain key events such as the development of Pet Sounds passes extremely quickly. So, what is there is accurate, and about 50% of it is fairly enjoyable to watch, but if I hadn't read a biography and didn't know some of their story going in, I wouldn't be quite sure what I had just watched. This would have been far better as a mini-series with a slower burn rate.