Customer Reviews

ABBA: In Performance

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My father bought this DVD and said that it is 75% commentary and critical review and only 25% music.
While the person was talking, the music was playing in the background but you can hardly hear it.
He really wanted to hear music and see a performance but got too much talking. He's not a new fan of Abba. He owns four other DVDs and some CDs and he enjoys all of them.
For a DVD at this price, it isn't worth it.

Well I am certainly a huge fan of ABBA and even more so I was in Australia in the 70s and I was right in the middle of abbamania downunder and there was so much television footage shot on the band both in 1976 and in 1977 for the tour and movie of course, there is no footage used here from the Australian visits at all and there is much footage that should have been included. This piece of tripe seems to me to just be a complete waste of time and even the hard core fan (me being one of them ) would be bored, I kept thinking, what is the point of this film, its just ranting for ranting sake. My advice dont bother.

If there was a zero star review rating, this DVD would deserve it. I bought this because I wanted to see the "Dick Cavett Meets ABBA" videos. First, none of the videos are shown in their entirity. But worst of all is the quality: it appears to be about a 3 off copy. It is so bad that it can't be shown in full screen, but rather in inset box that is supposed to be a television screen. What a waste of time and money!