There is a lot of backstage footage here, maybe too much, but it portrays Whitney Houston as a lot more sassy and intelligent and complex than her public image. She was publicly marketed as a perfect pop princess, so it is not surprising that she rebelled against that. One theory is that drugs were a way of dealing with the pressure and also the film talks about how she wanted to stay with husband Bobby Brown under any circumstances. The doco is much kinder than the McDonald doco on Brown. The passages about her best friend Robin Crawford try hard to grasp the nature of their relationship, but fail. I lost interest in the film about two-thirds of the way through. So it is not that great.
Review of Whitney: Can I Be Me
