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U2 3D (2008)

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Reviews Counted: 85 Fresh: 78  Rotten:7 Average Rating: 7.5/10
 
Consensus: 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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Rated: G

Runtime: 85 mins

Theatrical Release: Jan 23, 2008 Wide

Box Office: $9,235,719

Synopsis: The larger-than-life rock band is given perhaps the only treatment that can properly capture its outsized popularity with a 3D concert film extravaganza. Produced by the 3D masters at 3ality Digital Entertainment, the film comprises footage from seven different South American concerts... The larger-than-life rock band is given perhaps the only treatment that can properly capture its outsized popularity with a 3D concert film extravaganza. Produced by the 3D masters at 3ality Digital Entertainment, the film comprises footage from seven different South American concerts during the group's 2007 Vertigo Tour. A massive undertaking, the project called for nine different cameras, making it the first-ever 3-D multi-camera live shoot. Directors Catherine Owens and Mark Pellington had previously worked with the band--Owens as the designer of screen visuals for their tours, and Pellington as the director for the "One" video--and they may have succeeded in doing what few concert films can, by truly capturing the ecstatic joy of a massive rock show. While still offering plenty of footage of the rapturous crowd, the film puts you exactly where you want to be at a concert: as close as possible to the performers. You get so close, in fact, that the first time the camera swoops in on Bono, it creates a strange sense of, well, vertigo, to have the mega-star's nose nearly grazing your own. The cameras draw in close enough to show beads of sweat flying from The Edge, and even reveal the middle-aged paunch Bono has hidden inside his motorcycle jacket. The sound quality is impeccable, and the moment it kicks into the drumbeat for "Bloody Sunday," it is nearly impossible to keep at least one body part from involuntarily bouncing in time. For U2 fans, the film can only be exhilarating, though it may hold less sway for those who don't own the band's complete, decades-spanning catalog. [More]

Genre: Musical & Performing Arts

Starring: U2

Director: Mark Pellington, Catherine Owens
Producer: Jon Shapiro, Peter Shapiro, John Modell, Catherine Owens

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3/4

If you are a die hard U2 fan, you will LOVE LOVE LOVE this! A very cool experience!

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07/22/08
Austin Kennedy
Sin Magazine
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3.5/4

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.

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04/09/08
Rossiter Drake
San Francisco Examiner
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04/03/08
Boxoffice Magazine
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B

It is a band apart, both in terms of music and message.

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03/06/08
Robert Roten
Laramie Movie Scope
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3.5/4

Not better than the real thing, but close.

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02/29/08
John Wirt
Advocate (Baton Rouge, LA)
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4/5

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

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02/28/08
Diva Velez
MightyGanesha.com
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8/10

U2 3D is the perfect synergy of music, technology and magic.

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02/28/08
Brandon Fibbs
BrandonFibbs.com
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4/5

Represents what is far and away the most impressive use of 3-D I've ever seen.

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02/27/08
Ken Hanke
Mountain Xpress (Asheville, NC)
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4/4

You, too, can be there.

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02/24/08
Linda Cook
Quad City Times (Davenport, IA)
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4/5

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.

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02/23/08
Rich Cline
Shadows on the Wall
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3/4

U2 is a great band, but 3-D doesn't make them greater.

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02/22/08
Duane Dudek
Milwaukee Journal Sentinel
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Inadvertently, U2 3D mimics perfectly the empty, intimacy-free spectacle that is stadium rock.

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02/22/08
David Gritten
Guardian [UK]
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1/5

U2 just look like four conceited billionaires who are further up themselves than ever.

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02/22/08
Peter Bradshaw
Guardian [UK]
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4/5

It makes you want to climb on screen and give the big, eco-friendly lug a hug.

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02/22/08
Neil Smith
Total Film
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4/5

Ultimately, U2 3D will infuriate as many as it dazzles – attendance depends on how much Bono-me you can stomach or how grabbed you are by 3D cinema.

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02/22/08
Rob Daniel
Sky Movies
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2.5/5

If you already love U2 your conviction will be strengthened. If you hate them, it will confirm your worst fears. Either way, the 3D technology is fantastic.

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02/22/08
Jon Fortgang
Channel 4 Film
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2/6

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.

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02/22/08
Derek Adams
Time Out
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4/5

It's not for nothing that these guys are the world's finest live act.

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02/22/08
Ian Nathan
Empire Magazine
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3/5

The playlist alone with thrill fans, but while spectacular, the 3D element still can't replicate the feeling of a live gig.

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02/19/08
Anna Smith
BBC
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4/5

...a heady, dizzying experience...

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02/18/08
Jim Lane
Sacramento News & Review
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