U2 3D (2007)
Average Rating: 7.5/10
Reviews Counted: 88
Fresh: 81 | Rotten: 7
3D transports the viewer to an intimate seat at a U2 performance, for an exhilarating musical experience at the price of a movie ticket.
Average Rating: 7.4/10
Critic Reviews: 29
Fresh: 26 | Rotten: 3
3D transports the viewer to an intimate seat at a U2 performance, for an exhilarating musical experience at the price of a movie ticket.
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Hollywood A-list director Mark Pellington (The Mothman Prophecies, Arlington Road) and newcomer Catherine Owens team up to break new cinematic ground by co-helming U2 3D -- the first three-dimensional concert film in movie history. The effort intercuts footage culled from several U2 shows on their 2005-2006 Vertigo tour in Mexico City and Buenos Aires, Argentina, with Bono, The Edge, Adam Clayton, and Larry Mullen Jr. performing before rapt audiences. The picture opens with several thematically
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Bono should refrain from ramming his preachy political meanderings down our throats and let the music do the talking. Even if some of that music becomes a little stultifying.
Top CriticThe 3-D visuals envelop you, majestically, and that effect fuses with the band's surround-sound rapture to create a full-scale sensory high. U2 3D makes you feel stoned on movies.
The 3-D element is unobtrusively handled, except when it perfectly re-creates the woman who's always perched on her boyfriend's shoulders in front of you at a concert...
The concert itself is spectacularly produced, with Jumbotrons providing backdrop and long, curving runways that allow Bono and other band members to move far out into the crowd.
Having these enormous, almost disembodied figures endlessly cascading through space is more distracting than illuminating.
While U2's performance here is tops, you don't feel the press of solidarity, the shared experience that lingers dully in the ears for hours. And you miss it.
U2 3D is an isle of style and sense in a sea of mediocrity.
On the IMAX screen, these Irish rockers really rattle and hum.
If you are a die hard U2 fan, you will LOVE LOVE LOVE this! A very cool experience!
By the time Bono turns to the camera, reaching out to his audience in a typically theatrical plea for peace, love and understanding, one half expects his outstretched hand to surge through the screen and seize one of your own.
When Bono reaches into the camera and out of the screen, there are few cinematic moments more intimate.
It is a band apart, both in terms of music and message.
Not better than the real thing, but close.
U23D captures the band and the excitement of their live shows in a way that no other medium could. The combination of art and science, technology and emotion, separates U23D from being just a nifty 3D experiment and elevates it to a pop mast
U2 3D is the perfect synergy of music, technology and magic.
Represents what is far and away the most impressive use of 3-D I've ever seen.
You, too, can be there.
The rock mega-band U2 has made so many concert films that it's hard to get excited about this one.... But the film is a revelation, redefining 3D live-action moviemaking.
U2 is a great band, but 3-D doesn't make them greater.
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