Aah, I only went to see them once, but they were great

It seriously pisses me off that so many so-called punks have no idea who they are

Overall an interesting movie for Damned fans, but somewhat awkwardly put together. Production wise, audio jumps and spikes in certain footage and then gets quieter, making you want to cover your ears and then let go quickly.The editing was strangely ordered, the over all story of events was chronological, but then corresponding footage and interviews would jump backwards in time without explanation.Many of the subjects involved aren't properly introduced or lack titles below them and it takes a long time to figure out who is being interviewed and who are being referenced. A lot of the footage feels like it was used to kill time. There are large pointless sections that don't tell the story or entertain. Overall it's worth watching for fans, especially for the captain sensible scenes.

There are a lot of great stories in here, the fruit of long years of partying hard, and they ensure that the film is entertaining, but they also allow it to skim over other subjects.

People who don't even care about the music will likely find [it] compelling.

The film also captures the ups and downs of the band that sometimes felt like they were cursed.

A thorough, even-handed look back at [the] history, cultural significance and the colorful, clashing personalities within the seminal punk band.

The NY-based Orshoski does a good job outlining the UK punk scene for US audiences; along the way, perhaps inadvertently, he helps illustrate just how out of step with their contemporaries The Damned's larks were.

Blistering, hilarious, and terrifically neat, neat, neat.

Director Wes Orshoski, who previously co-directed a laudatory 2010 profile of Motorhead frontman Lemmy Kilmister, builds a solid case for the band's historic importance in this funny, fast-moving, fan-friendly documentary.

Don't You Wish That We Were Dead is a fascinating, rambling saga that emanates a rich, sometimes morose, sense of what it's really like to have a whole life defined by the oh-so-brief explosion that was punk rock.

Its cast of characters is colorful (literally, in the case of Captain Sensible, known for his pink shag-rug jackets) and its access is impressive ('Our single biggest issue is people throwing pints onstage' the band's tour manager complains).

The U.K.'s oldest extant punk band gets a suitably entertaining, fractious documentary tribute.