Objectively, this posthumous tribute to two of the most gifted and charismatic of soul singers is an amateurish mess miserably edited, padded with irrelevant talking-head celebrity interviews (like we care what Lola Falana thinks about these guys?), and hosted in a l'histoire c'est moi style by Arthel Neville. Nevertheless, there's a lot of great music in The Original Leads of the Temptation, and the archival footage of the two Temptations who were, after all, among the coolest humans ever to inhabit sharkskin suits is riveting enough. B-

