Product Details

• Actors: Bono
• Format: NTSC
• Number of discs: 1
• Average Customer Review: 4.8 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (8 customer reviews)
• ASIN: B0012Q72WK
• For more information about "U2 3D" visit the Internet Movie Database (IMDb)

Editorial Reviews

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Concert films exist to show fans what they missed (or to immortalize events they experienced). U2 3D takes the phenomenon a step further. Created by U2's visual content director Catherine Owens and filmmaker Mark Pellington (the video for "One"), this revolutionary production turns viewers into participants. Filmed in South America during the "Vertigo" tour, Owens and Pellington deployed 18 digital cameras to capture the quartet in real time. When a camera focuses on the Edge strumming his glitter guitar, the be-capped one appears within breathing distance. The effect becomes more intimate--and even a little unsettling--when Bono extends his hand. A few may flinch the first time he makes the move (fortunately, the front man keeps the gesture to a minimum). The impulse recalls the 3-D Dial M for Murder, in which Ray Milland holds out a key. Audiences of the era were tempted to take it from him. Nonetheless, the technology lives to serve the (multi-channel) music--not the other way around--and the set list features 15 career-spanning favorites. Encores include "With or Without You" (for which the audience provides the chorus) and "The Fly," while "Yahweh" plays during the closing credits. While some of their peers risk redundancy by resisting technological innovation and musical development, U2 turns adaptation into an art. After the high-tech ZooTV and PopMart tours, a 3-D concert film only makes sense. Surely more will follow, but time will tell whether they'll measure up to the high standards the band sets here. --Kathleen C. Fennessy

Customer Reviews

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2 of 2 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars U2 3D, March 13, 2008

By	Michael Zuffa (Racine, WI United States) - See all my reviews (REAL NAME)

"U2 3D" is an example of just how great a 3D movie experience can be. Mostly shot in Buenos Aires, this concert film puts you in the audience and on the stage at a concert from one of the best bands of the last 30 years. Actually shot at a number of concerts and meshed together, the illusion is seamless. At times, the band seems so close you could reach out and touch them. The set list is a good selection of old and new, hits and lesser known songs. The band members themselves are great showmen, and each get their own close-up. Fans of U2 will definitely want to check this out. If you are not a fan, see this movie and become one. The band is great, the 3D is great, the film is great. Highly recommended.

Set list:
Vertigo
Beautiful Day
New Year's Day
Sometimes You Can't Make It On Your Own
Love and Peace or Else
Sunday Bloody Sunday
Bullet the Blue Sky
Miss Sarajevo
Pride (In the Name of Love)
Where the Streets Have No Name
One
The Fly
With or Without You
Yahweh

4 of 5 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Great experience - for a Die-hard U2 fan, February 15, 2008

By	Gabino Antonio Tierras "Strategist, Entrepren... (TX USA, Spain... it all depends!) - See all my reviews

This is definitely a must-see for die-hard fans. My wife came to see this with me too. She is not a big U2 fan and somewhat tolerates them for me - but even she enjoyed this showing. One thing that was noteworthy, though, is that she was just dying to get up and start singing along with the songs she knew and clapping (as was I), but the rest of the crowd barely tapped their feet!

Maybe we were just in with a crowd who really wanted to see a documentary about U2 with some special effects, rather than experience the next-best-thing to a concert - or perhaps that's just the way it is in Dallas.

Well, if you love U2, you MUST see this. If you like U2, you MUST see this. If you aren't sure who U2 are, then enjoy the music and don't expect an education. - IMAX is best of course!

As for me, I'm waiting for the DVD release so I can put it up on the projector and invite all my U2 fan-friends over for a Guinness, Jameson's and a home-grown concert. :-D

1 of 1 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Makes you feel like you're RIGHT THERE!!!!!, February 21, 2008

By	Denzel Lockheart "Up the Irons" (Edmonton, Canada) - See all my reviews

Having just went to Toronto almost a month ago, my uncle and I went to go see this at the IMAX on a snowy day. Now I always loved U2, and so I was excited to see this movie. And the moment it Bono came out on stage and bursted out "Vertigo", the energy only increased!!!!!!!!

Now this movie does not have a release at the moment where I live, but it was worth seeing in Ontario. You start off the show with Vertigo, and end with "Yahweh". The 3D is not gimmicky, it's purpose is to mae you feel like you're at the show. ANd it's so well done!

My favorite part was "Love and Peace Or Else", that was awesome!!!

So see it if you're a diehard fan!