Average Rating: 5.4/10
Reviews Counted: 176
Fresh: 85 | Rotten: 91
Featuring numerous 60s-era clichés, but little of the musical magic that highlighted the famous festival, Taking Woodstock is a breezy but underwhelming portrayal.
Average Rating: 5.1/10
Critic Reviews: 40
Fresh: 14 | Rotten: 26
Featuring numerous 60s-era clichés, but little of the musical magic that highlighted the famous festival, Taking Woodstock is a breezy but underwhelming portrayal.
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Academy Award-winning director Ang Lee tells the story of the Greenwich Village interior designer who inadvertently helped to spark a cultural revolution by offering the organizers of the Woodstock Music and Arts Festival boarding at his family's Catskills motel. The year is 1969. Change is brewing in America, and the energy in Greenwich Village is palpable. Elliot Tiber (Demetri Martin) is working as an interior designer when he discovers that a high-profile concert has recently lost its permit
Aug 28, 2009 Wide
Dec 15, 2009
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Ang Lee's companionable 'Taking Woodstock' is thick with sun and good cheer.
Too much of Taking Woodstock seems barely sketched out.
It's harmless enough as a snapshot of a young man's awakening to the grand possibilities of adult life, but not particularly effective at capturing the spirit, the thrill or even the mud of this culturally monumental event.
This is very light material, and, unusually for a Lee picture, not everybody in the ensemble appears to be acting in the same universe, let alone the same story. On the other hand: It's fun.
Taking Woodstock has the appeal of an inside story told from an especially good angle. But beyond that, the movie is a celebration of the way this event has gone into memory and of the meaning it has acquired.
It's great that Taking Woodstock doesn't trample on anything sacred, but it also never arrives anywhere interesting.
Does a great job of recreating the time, place and people that came together to make something magical in the middle of the summer of 1969.
A valentine to America.
A ham-handed attempt to indicate the oncoming tragedy of Altamont ends the film with a touch of contrivance, but it's the only sour note in an otherwise flawless film.
Amazing that Ang Lee can make such a listless movie about arguably one of the most high energy times in recent history.
An interesting idea, but it doesn't really have much to capitalize on outside of the authentic period reproduction.
This Borsht Belt turned Bacchanalian screen memoir suffers from persistent peripheral vision of a historic moment, while dulling the senses with an overload of housekeeping details. Not exactly a bad trip, but in no way a time travel contact high.
Effectively employs iconic Woodstock imagery not to regenerate a numbing sense of mass nostalgia but rather as a minimalist backdrop against which to amplify the anguished, intimate ordeal of a frustrated individual who wasn't even there.
Watch carefully as the film tries to ramrod too many themes, invoking split-screen technique, and see if you can identify how often self-indulgence is confused for enlightenment.
Não se revela particularmente interessante ou minimamente revelador no que diz respeito à natureza de Woodstock ou do próprio protagonista.
A minor work from Brokeback Mountain director Ang Lee that is enjoyable but ultimately underwhelming.
This may be a minor movie, but it displays the hallmarks of a major talent.
Achieves the highly improbable by making one of the most exciting events of the 1960s look really boring.
A rare misfire for the usually reliable Lee.
Taking Woodstock is entertaining, funny but also very slight film. Unlike the real Woodstock, it won't change lives or burn in the memory.
his is by no means a terrible film, but from a filmmaker as exceptional as Ang Lee it's a rare disappointment.
Taking Woodstock will leave the unstoned cold and won't have anyone aching for those legendary 'three days of peace and music' that wasn't there in the first place.
Some will revel in it, but (younger) viewers may find Taking Woodstock old hat.
Ang Lee's latest dissection of the American dream is one of his most complex and even most deceptively subversive films.
Taking Woodstock start interesting, but went the film begings to show the festival, Woodstock stay disagreeably sweet and presents a not so good screenplay, featuring some cliches. Don't focus really on the festival, showing just the making off. Ang Lee's Taking Woodstock is disappointing. Rotten.
May 14, 2011Super Reviewer
I'm starting to lose count on the amount of times director Ang Lee has tackled a new genre. He's done martial arts; comic-book; thriller; romance; family drama; westerns and literary adaptation. Now? Well now, he's tackles the story of how the legendary music festival "Woodstock" came to be. Elliot Teichberg (Demetri
March 28, 2011Super Reviewer
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