Is she fooling us all? Miley Cyrus: The Movement documentary reveals it's all 'strategic' Miley Cyrus takes you behind the scenes of her superstar life in MTV's new documentary 'Miley: The Movement'. Courtesy MTV. Miley Cyrus says her growth is a "strategic hot mess" in her new documentary, Miley: The Movement. The record-breaking music video for 'Wrecking Ball' by Miley Cyrus Newly single Liam Hemsworth looks happy as he enters his hotel in New York City. Miley Cyrus in a promotional pic for her new album, Bangerz. THIS may come as a shock, but it isn't until a good quarter of the way through her new MTV documentary that Miley Cyrus sticks her tongue out. And twerking? Barely a passing mention. Someone at MTV deserves a serious raise for foreseeing the distant gold in the reinvention of Miley Cyrus, the Hannah Montana tween star who shocked the pearl-clutching world last month with a foam finger, a slew of teddy bears and a heaping portion of sex in an instantly infamous performance at the Video Music Awards. For its surprisingly kinetic one-hour documentary, Miley: The Movement - premiering in the US and the UK this week - MTV followed Cyrus for four months, from the early summer debut of Miley 2.0 with her urban single We Can't Stop through her naked-but-for-the-boots music video for the chart-topping Wrecking Ball. The titular "movement" is what Miley calls her transformation from wholesome Disney entertainer to a 20-year-old doing whatever-the-hell she wants. People always want to call it a transition . . . It's not a transition," she says forcefully in the doc. It's a movement. It's a growth. It's a change. Self-aggrandizing aside, there's no debating that this is a Cyrus we haven't seen before. Beneath the casual appropriation of black culture is a hard-working young woman who, frankly, knows exactly what she's doing. "You can watch that performance and think that's a hot mess," she says of the VMAs, a few days after. But it's a strategic hot mess. In one scene, the robot commonly known as Britney Spears pops by for a (likely contractually obligated) recording session with Cyrus for a feature on Miley's new album (the two now share a manager, Larry Rudolph). After speak-singing lyrics like "Cat walk, slick talk" into the mic, Robotney offers an awkward, "Thank you for having me on your song." It's all a heavy-handed, albeit fair, set-up to position Cyrus' shock and hype as the modern-day deflowering of Ms. Spears with now comparably tame acts - such as kissing Madonna on stage or shaking her butt in a nude body suit. When the Slave 4 U video came out, my dad was like, 'My 8-year-old's going to be a stripper!' Cyrus enthusiastically tells Spears, who hilariously doesn't appear pre-programmed for any sort of human response. With that in mind, everything Cyrus does starts to seem at least a little less grating. Can we really blame her for wanting to make a name for herself? Moments like her vacuuming on a jet plane ("Gotta keep it humble!") and purposely over-dramatising ailments ("My neck, I can't move it, and I feel like now I'm losing my vision") show a level-headed girl with a refreshing sense of humor in the often too-serious world of pop music. "If I wanted to do a raunchy sex show, I wouldn't have been dressed as a damn bear!" she exclaims. Fair point. There is a glaring omission in The Movement, though - no mention of Liam Hemsworth, the Hunger Games hunk Cyrus was engaged to during most of the doc filming (they're now split up). Also nowhere to be seen - her dad, Billy Ray Cyrus, who has a history of disapproving of his daughter's antics. MTV wouldn't comment on the exclusions, but Miley was a "partner" in making the film. In other words, we're seeing exactly what she wants us to see. This is, after all, essentially a very tantalizing extended commercial for her album, Bangerz, which drops next week. In other words: we've fallen for it again.