Product Details

• Actors: Chris Chaney, Taylor Hawkins, Nick Lashley, Alanis Morissette, Jesse Tobias
• Directors: Alanis Morissette
• Format: Color, NTSC
• Language: English
• Rated: NR (Not Rated)
• Number of tapes: 1
• Studio: Maverick
• VHS Release Date: July 1, 1997
• Run Time: 90 minutes
• Average Customer Review: 3.3 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (49 customer reviews)
• ASIN: 6304492332
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #247,179 in Movies & TV (See Top 100 in Movies & TV)

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42 of 44 people found the following review helpful:

2.0 out of 5 stars All that glitters is not gold., September 12, 1999

By A Customer

This review is from: Alanis Morissette: Jagged Little Pill, Live (DVD)

I bought this DVD thinking it would be an Alanis Morissette concert in its entrity. Alanis is my favorite singer, and I couldn't get home fast enough to watch this DVD. A great deal of the video is just a bunch of silly shots of the band traveling around acting like teenagers. There are a lot of songs, but the presentation is horrible. During the same song, it skips around to as much as five different venues. A song will start out in a big, glitzy arena, and just about the time you are getting into the music, it will skip to an outdoor concert with lousy sound, then it may jump to the MTV awards show, or a video, or an acoustic set. This is so annoying, and just makes it impossible to enjoy the music. I would not mind seeing Alanis in different venues, but please leave each song in only one venue. Considering the potential of DVD, it would be really neat if you could pick the song, and which venue you would like to see it in. I wish Alanis would come out with a concert on DVD that was just one show from beginning to end.

16 of 19 people found the following review helpful:

1.0 out of 5 stars Absolutely Horrible, July 20, 2003

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PSM/Bokor (United States) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Alanis Morissette: Jagged Little Pill, Live (DVD)

I must admit that my wife and I only watched the first fifteen minutes of this DVD, before turning it off. We're both fans of Alanis, but we were amazed that she allowed this DVD to be released. It's a waste of money. The sound quality is horrible. We have a relatively large collection of live performance DVD's, and this one is soon heading to a music store that buys used DVD's. I doubt we'll get much for it.

I hope that Alanis releases a high quality DVD of one of her performance with no gimmics, no artsy/fartsy [stuff] that detracts from her amazing voice and lyrics.

15 of 18 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars More about the phenomenon than the music - but so what?, August 26, 2003

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Eric Krupin (Salt Lake City, UT) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Alanis Morissette: Jagged Little Pill - Live [VHS] (VHS Tape)

Whatever you thought of Alanis in 1995 and whatever you think of her now (if you're like me, that's two pretty different things), there's no denying that JLP was much more than a megahit record. (Mentally compare it to, say, Def Leppard's "Hysteria" and you'll see what I mean.) It was perfectly in tune with its moment and it hit millions of people where they live. (And not just grouchy middle-class white girls either, contrary to legend. The look of rapture of the face of an Indonesian male fan as he sings along with the lyrics can tell you that.) She says she thought of retiring after it came out and frankly, she might as well have. There really was nowhere for her to go but down.

Other people here have complained about the way most songs on this video are assembled from snippets of many different performances given months and countries apart (with widely varying levels of audio quality), and I see their point. This does compromise the integrity of the music, strictly speaking. But it does assemble a fascinating portrait of the JLP phenomenon which, viewed as a whole, is a lot more interesting than any single concert taped in Dallas (or Sydney, or Buenos Aires) ever could be.

Watching it unfurl again at this distance in time - even knowing that there wouldn't be, strictly speaking, a happy ending - is still a remarkable experience. Just seeing this horse-faced young Canadian woman with a few more artistic pretentions than she can support and 8 or 9 terrific songs in her backpack speaking to legions of people in literally every corner of the globe is enough to make you to believe in music all over again.