Review – Being Elmo

This documentary about Kevin Clash – the puppeteer behind Sesame Street’s immensely popular Elmo – turned out to be a lot less cloying than I expected. To be sure, a lot of it was fairly Muppety-cute. But Clash managed to take a childhood obsession and turn it into a viable career and a legitimate performing art, qualities brought out well by the filmmakers. Mildly amusing [note: this review was written before accusations emerged about Clash’s record as a child molester]