Product Details

• Actors: Green Day
• Format: Closed-captioned, Color, DTS Surround Sound, DVD, Subtitled, NTSC
• Language: English (Dolby Digital 5.1), English (DTS 5.1)
• Subtitles: French, German, Italian, Spanish
• Region: Region 1 (U.S. and Canada only. Read more about DVD formats.)
  
• Aspect Ratio: 1.33:1
• Number of discs: 1
• Rating: NR (Not Rated)
• Studio: Classic Rock Legends
• DVD Release Date: October 25, 2005
• Run Time: 159 minutes
• Average Customer Review: 2.2 out of 5 stars See all reviews (12 customer reviews)
• ASIN: B000B5KED2
• Amazon.com Sales Rank: #96,775 in Movies & TV (See Bestsellers in Movies & TV)

Editorial Reviews

Product Description
American Idiot is the Grammy award-winning album which cemented the superstar status of Green Day and transformed the group into global superstars capable of filling the biggest stadiums on earth. Featuring rare concert footage and the reflections of the band along side the views of a leading team of music critics and studio insiders, this is the independent critical review of the album that rocked the world the how and why of American Idiot and how it works its magic.

Customer Reviews

Most Helpful Customer Reviews

16 of 18 people found the following review helpful:

3.0 out of 5 stars Not What I Expected, December 6, 2005

By	David C. Sloan (Denver, CO USA) - See all my reviews (REAL NAME)

It's my fault, I'm sure, but I thought I was ordering a DVD with real concert footage and then people talking about what they saw. What I got was 5-15 seconds of concert footage of Greenday, footage of other bands playing old stuff, and a bunch of Brits talking about why they did or didn't like that part of the CD for minutes on end. It was very hard to even pay attention to the concert footage because of the way the DVD is edited (multi-screens showing at the same time). For me, I felt this was a waste of my money, but that's me.

Some of the good parts were seeing some rare footage of The Ramones and then guitar lessons, but other then that felt like I got ripped off on this one.

16 of 19 people found the following review helpful:

1.0 out of 5 stars Avoid this like the plague, January 5, 2006

By	Sara K - See all my reviews

I thought a "critical review" of American Idiot would involve music critics and historians discussing the rock opera genre and where AI fits into it, the history of political protest in punk, the development of AI from Green Day's earlier work and how their musical influences are reflected or departed from in this album, etc. I got none of that from this DVD. It's five or six random people saying banal or idiotic things about the album. None of them seems more than vaguely aware that AI even tells a story, much less has anything to say about the characters or the narrative structure. They helpfully inform us that AI is "political". They identify Green Day's influences as the Ramones and the Buzzcocks (and that's it, apparently). Perhaps more to the point, half the performance footage of the band is from MTV's Storytellers and the rest is from random German and Italian MTV performances. There's nothing special about the footage and no original interviews. In sum: NO ONE should bother with this. Buy Bullet in a Bible. Or just set $15 on fire.

13 of 15 people found the following review helpful:

1.0 out of 5 stars You are really looking for "Bullet In A Bible" not this waste, December 26, 2005

By	L. Cardenas - See all my reviews (REAL NAME)

Misleading DVD. Should not even be sold by Amazon. If you want the Green Day concert DVD, buy "Bullet In A Bible".

This DVD is basically a DVD of Critics talking about the band with minimal concert footage. A waste of time and money. Bad gift for a Green Day fan.