Every year the Air Guitar World Championship takes place in Oulo, Finland. Attracting entries from Australia, New Zealand, the United Kingdom and various Nordic countries, it was a competition that until 2003 had remained USA-free.

Then two American dudes who couldn't believe there wasn't representation from America set out about organising their own competition to find someone to represent the US of A. What follows is a documentary on the quest for America to be the best Air Guitar country in the world. In truly American style, many of the entrants take their stuff seriously, and the documentary is a look at the process by which America finally enters, and wins, the world championship.

To say it is a feature film based on nothing would be an accurate way to describe the absence of talent and instrument required for this tongue in cheek competition. But the Americans take it seriously. "It's a competition and we can win it, damnit" seems to be the underlying message. Is there nothing that Americans don't want to win?

Perhaps I have a different view from others as growing up in Australia, Air Guitar competitions had existed for awhile and was a commonplace piece of non-cultural entertainment. It was something to be laughed at, as grown men pulled silly faces whilst pretending to do guitar solos, sans guitar, to Queen. So the movie is amusing for the moments of Air Guitar nonsense, but tedious in that the documentary could follow the same daft lines and not take itself so seriously.

There are moments of comic genius, quotes that have obviously been rehearsed and polished to shine. My favourite, from Bjorn Turoque (i.e. Born to rock) is "to err is human, to air guitar, divine". Apologies if I just gave away one of the highlights of the movie, but there's enough mild giggles to keep the viewer entertained for an hour and eighteen minutes. Just don't expect the meaning of life from this one...