Meat Loaf: To Hell and Back

Meat Loaf is by far the greatest rock star of the 1970s 80s 90s and beyond. This movie is based on his Autobiography of the same name. Although currently available on vhs format VH1 and Paramount Pictures are bound to give in to the demand for DVD format featuring all the promotional extras that went with it. This movie is good but as I stated in my headline summary it is mixed up in some parts. Certain people places and things did or did not happen. One piece of the book I wished they had filmed was Meat Loaf driving through Arizona to California during the mid to late 1960's and picks up a hippie drifter on the highway. It turns out in the book that Meat Loaf wound up giving a ride to Charles Manson. I don't know how fans of Meat Loaf would have taken it but it would have been one of those shock moments in Meat Loafs' life where everyone would have gone WHOOOOOAAAA dude that was unreal.

If you have seen the "Behind the Music" type things on Meat Loaf, there was not much surprise here, but it was a good show. The music spanned years, and is as good now as it was then. The acting was better than I expected, and there was nothing about the story that seemed completely blown out of proportion. If you like Meat Loaf, I recommend catching it the next time it is on.

Well, what can I say... it was well acted, good story, good pace, music was amazing... it was a great bio-pic. Meat Loaf and Jim Steinman were amazing as a team and this movie portrayed Meat's and their story greatly. Good show.

where do i start? i love meat loaf, i love his music, i love his acting career. but vh1 has let me as well as SEVERAL meat loaf fans down with this flop. first off, there are more albums then bat out of hell 1 and 2, which the movie seemed to have forgotten. and when an attempt was made to mention his dead ringer album in the studio, they got the lyrics wrong for peel out. their time line was way off, why was objects in the rearview mirror playing 13 years chronologically before it was actually released? vh1 took TOO many liberties in creating this movie and any redeemable moments were few and far between. i think that the actor playing meat loaf was a good actor, but come on, let's not slap a long haired wig on a big guy and call him meat loaf. meat loaf himself and his production company had nothing to do with this there are several inaccuracies and i dont think the creators of this c**p should have even touched the mother issue let alone interpret it the way they did. if you are a fleeting fan, go ahead, watch this movie. if you are a real fan then you will weep inconsolably.

I just watched the movie on VH1, and toward the very end of the movie, I thought I saw Meatloaf himself in the audience at the Cancer benefit. Were my eyes deceiving me, or did he have a brief cameo in the movie? All in all, I thought it was a good show. Granted, I did notice the mountains in the background in "Dallas County", and wondered at certain lines in the movie (re: Rocky Horror- "Nobody will watch this, they'll only throw things at the screen"), but since I've been a meatloaf fan since "BOH" #1 came out, the minor flaws and the little extras were just that, minor, and didn't distract from the main story enough to ruin the movie.