“FUNKY MONKS” Red Hot Chili Peppers <i> Warner Reprise Video ($19.98)</i> * *

This hourlong video documents the recording of the hit album “Blood Sugar Sex Magik” while the L.A.-based band was sequestered in a Hollywood mansion for two months last year. “Monks” offers an anatomy of the Chili Peps’ funk-rock music, lots of casual sexism, rambling monologues from the guitarist who would later bail out of the group during a world tour, grating sexism, tiresome high jinks, revealing comments on the breakthrough hit “Under the Bridge,” more sexism. In all, it’s a pretty accurate portrayal of the Chili Peppers’ cosmos--an odd mix of self-important posturing and intense sincerity, of deliberate obnoxiousness and genuine idealism.