This film is the reason more music documentaries are not made. "Prince: My Name Is" is a minimal effort production that never even cares to show the actual artist performing actual music for more than 30 seconds at a time. The vast majority of the content is just a voice actor monotonously reading a script about Prince's career over photos most of us have seen before. This is the lowest form of film..

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