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I'm not surprised about Al's frustration with the documentary.
Frank Marshall also directed the Bee Gees documentary (The Bee Gees : How Can You Men a Broken Heart), released in 2020, and it was the exact same deal : way too short. It stopped after the disco era and plenty of great material was not in the film. Very frustrating for the fans.

I guess we'd have to see more of this Paradise Cove footage to know for sure, but unless the singing and everything was like the most awful trainwreck of all time, I can't imagine why they wouldn't put even a bit of it in there.

Yeah, I don't get it.  If they sang beautifully, great!  Even if they were completely off key, wouldn't that be poignant too, i.e., that they're alive and singing just for the hell of it??  

In regards to the cutting room floor footage Al mentioned, I'm hoping we will get a Blu-ray/DVD release with a bunch of bonus features.  🤞🤞🤞

Well, even if the documentary doesn't cut it for some of us, we can be entertained by a moderately surly Al Jardine during the Q&A:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=l7SZc7BApKI&t=2s

Honestly, by Beach Boys standards Al is pretty chill here. 

I actually like this interview. Nothing groundbreaking, sure, but it's nice to see Mike and Al together here talking about the early days.

Al makes his case again at about the 55 sec mark on what’s been left out.

https://youtu.be/dEeSkxz_7cI?si=mvd2Hxq3kf6H5-Yy

Always like it when Dave gets a spot in front of a camera. So eloquent and humble. I haven’t seen Carrie for some time and such a shame if they have parted. We never did hear the outcome of Dave’s arrest a few years back but I hope they are both doing ok.

https://youtu.be/H4dSzNrh_pA?si=Cpq76Z9HPuGavax7

Just want to take a moment to appreciate what amazing people these two are, and what an amazing moment that was captured at the premiere^. After all they have both been through, through the decades, they are still able to love and appreciate one another.

The photo(s) above make me sad in a way - just as it clearly shows all that time that has gone by. It still floors me how Brian has been able to beat all the odds and fight through the demons all these years later. I hear that Brian has a heart of gold, I think it's truly apparent in the way that most of his friends, band, and family interact with him and love him.

Al's still out there, promoting his ass off for this film. He's got some brand/band loyalty I guess.

Poor Al, always ending up marginalized, confused as to how things ended up the way they did.

I guess we'd have to see more of this Paradise Cove footage to know for sure, but unless the singing and everything was like the most awful trainwreck of all time, I can't imagine why they wouldn't put even a bit of it in there.

Well, even if the documentary doesn't cut it for some of us, we can be entertained by a moderately surly Al Jardine during the Q&A:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=l7SZc7BApKI&t=2s

Al did seem a little passive aggressive in that first question, did I hear it right that he got in a dig about them playing instruments related to the topic mentioned here earlier?

Just a nit-pick, Mike tells the story about the car sounds on 409 as Dennis revving up his 409 and driving down their street while Brian recorded it on his reel to reel...I thought that was Gary Usher revving up and driving his Chevy with a 348 engine, because the 409 had just come onto the market and they wanted one but couldn't afford it yet. Just a nit-pick there, but I don't think it was Dennis or his car, and it wasn't a 409 Chevy on that tape.

If you read that interview Al gave a few weeks ago where he didn't seem too hot on the documentary, and then see his surliness here, I think a potential idea of Al's opinion of this documentary project may become a bit clearer.

It was a rhetorical question, Al's opinion is pretty clear! Yes I was referring specifically to the interview in that Maui news article where Al also said the line about the project being the narrative according to Mike, so yes he doesn't seem as keen about this film as the producers and backers probably hoped he would be. I will say there is a difference between saying something in a print interview and saying something when the guy who made the editing decisions is right there in front of you, so kudos to Al for speaking up "live" as he did.

Al also a bit surly on the press junket, complaining in this interview right to Marshall's face that they cut the Paradise Cove singing out:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WsnRgc_Dvk8

Well, even if the documentary doesn't cut it for some of us, we can be entertained by a moderately surly Al Jardine during the Q&A:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=l7SZc7BApKI&t=2s

Al did seem a little passive aggressive in that first question, did I hear it right that he got in a dig about them playing instruments related to the topic mentioned here earlier?

Just a nit-pick, Mike tells the story about the car sounds on 409 as Dennis revving up his 409 and driving down their street while Brian recorded it on his reel to reel...I thought that was Gary Usher revving up and driving his Chevy with a 348 engine, because the 409 had just come onto the market and they wanted one but couldn't afford it yet. Just a nit-pick there, but I don't think it was Dennis or his car, and it wasn't a 409 Chevy on that tape.

If you read that interview Al gave a few weeks ago where he didn't seem too hot on the documentary, and then see his surliness here, I think a potential idea of Al's opinion of this documentary project may become a bit clearer.