Swamp Dogg Gets His Pool Painted

The movie offers full-on immersion, or perhaps submersion, in Swamp Dogg’s world.

Overall, Swamp Dogg Gets His Pool Painted is good for a few laughs, possibly some tears and a level of reflection that is at least adjacent to profundity.

Music documentaries have been almost irritatingly omnipresent in recent years, but “Swamp Dogg Gets His Pool Painted” is a refreshing change of pace that should delight even the most genre-fatigued viewer.

Swamp Dogg Gets His Pool Painted acts simultaneously as a celebration of the guy as well as a clear introduction and character sketch.

A pleasure on several levels: the discovery of a fascinating musician and his role in a remarkable variety of hit songs, a emblematically American version of a resolute original, and a near idyllic story of a life of creation.

Swamp Dogg on camera feels so blisteringly authentic that it’s near impossible to imagine he’s any different once the lights go off.

Swamp Dogg Gets His Pool Painted is as breezy and cockeyed as its title suggests... [switching] gears as playfully as Swamp changes genres.

Swamp Dogg and friends are an enjoyable group of people to spent 90 minutes with.

Swamp Dogg Gets His Pool Painted is a unique documentary reflecting underrated singer/songwriter Swamp Dogg: eccentric, rambling, creative, and unpredictable. Some viewers won't like this nonconformist storytelling style, but others will appreciate it.

An example of a documentary that benefits greatly from a charismatic subject, this affectionate if uneven portrait sufficiently captures his free-spirited essence.