U2 3D reviews

NY Times - More Than Rock ’n’ Roll: U2 on Tour in 3-D Images
USA Today - 'U2 3D': Lifelike rattle and hum
Seattle Post Intelligencer - Dazzling 'U2 3D' just may usher in a revolution in musical theater
LA Times - U2 3D
CNET - No 3D in 'U2 3D' without binocular vision
Arizona Republic - At thrilling 3-D IMAX concert, it's like 'U2' are there
Boston Herald -Just when you thought Bono’s head couldn’t get any bigger... along comes ‘U2 3D’
@U2.com - U2 3D Sparks True Fan-demonium
Wired -U2 3D Brings Hyperreal Arena Rock to the Multiplex
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The film I had just seen -- the world's first three-dimensional live-action concert film -- was astounding... More than a week later, the film still resonates as a stunning cinematic experience, and the best rock show I've never attended. - Wired

The experience of seeing a concert movie, no matter how technically remarkable, never will replace the experience of being at the show. But U2 3D comes awfully close. -- Arizona Republic

U2 3D (* * * * out of four) in many ways delivers an experience that's even better than the real thing. It brings U2's dazzling rock spectacle to the multiplex with VIP comforts, all-access viewpoints and telescopic close-ups. - USA Today

The musical documentary “U2 3D,” which stitches together three performances by this Irish rock band during a recent tour of South America, is not merely a technical landmark — shot entirely in digital 3D — but also an aesthetic one, in that it’s the first Imax movie that deserves to be called a work of art. -- NY Times

"U2 3D," a showcase of the Irish band in digital 3-D that is so technologically advanced and totally exhilarating in every way that it may just make all the other '08 concert films obsolete. - Seattle Post Intelligencer

Given rock's erotic pull, it's fair to compare "U2 3D," U2's foray into 3-D digital film technology, to a shot of Viagra. And guess what? The potency drug does its job: 85 beautifully paced minutes of crystal clear, artfully lit shots of Bono and his mates doing their inspirational thing for an arena crowd whose joy surges forth like a tiger in an Imax nature presentation is enough to renew the spark with longtime fans and draw in kids who otherwise might not go for older men...Physical experience drives home this message. Screen images, even ones that lunge out at you, can't replace the sweat and din of thousands of fellow fans turned toward those anointed figures channeling all that energy onstage. "U2 3D" comes very close, though -- LA Times

If there was any lingering doubt that U2 is the global rock juggernaut of our time, "U2 3D" explodes it like so much dynamite. Evidently, the Irish rockers couldn't make do with their 22 Grammys, umpteen platinum albums and Nobel Prize-nominated lead singer. They just HAD to have their very own 3-D concert movie, too. And what a brilliantly lifelike show it is. - Orange County Register