Product Details

• Actors: T.A.T.u
• Format: Color, DVD, NTSC, Subtitled, Import
• Language: Russian
• Subtitles: English, Portuguese, Spanish
• Region: All Regions
• Aspect Ratio: 1.33:1
• Number of discs: 1
• Rated: NR (Not Rated)
• Studio: UNIVERSAL CANAD
• DVD Release Date: May 18, 2004
• Run Time: 30 minutes
• Average Customer Review: 4.2 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (17 customer reviews)
• ASIN: B00020BQX8
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #128,116 in Movies & TV (See Top 100 in Movies & TV)
  • #42 in Music > World Music > Europe > Eastern Europe > Russia

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T.A.T.U.:SCREAMING FOR MORE - DVD Movie

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65 of 66 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars Large collection of TaTu's work, But could use a little more, November 28, 2004

By 

Michelle "Michelle" (San Diego, CA USA) - See all my reviews

This review is from: t.A.T.u. Screaming for More (DVD)

Like most people, I first got interested in T.a.T.u. after their first single, "All the things she said" came out and was highly addicted to it, then "Not gonna get us" was released and I became an even bigger fan. I never purchased their CD's, but always liked their music that I've heard.

This DVD is divided into several sections:
Music Videos, Behind the Scenes, Performances, Photo Gallery, Bonus Materials, and a Play all Music Videos option.

Music Video's is a list of all their video's

* All the things she said
* All the things she said russian version (ya shola S uma)
* All the things she said remix video
* Not gonna get us
* Not gonna get us russian version (nas ne dagoniat)
* Not gonna get us remix video
* 30 minutes
* How soon is now

Overall, that sounds like a big collection of videos, but in actuality, its not much.

As far as I can tell, the original video and the russian versions (Of All the things she said and Not gonna get us) are the exact same video, only with a different audio track, so right off the bat, that's 2 less real videos.
Then the remix videos are the same video footage, run through a series of filters (Such as slow motion, Color filters, etc..) along with a remixed audio track. I didnt care for either of the 2 remix songs nor videos, and with it using the same footage, it basically brings the DVD down to 4 different music videos (1 for each song).

I really did enjoy all 4 of the videos though. The first (All the thing she said) involves the girls outside of a school in the rain, the second (Not gonna get us) has them driivng a large tanker truck through an iceland area, the 3rd (30 minutes) has them at a carnival in a dramatic video, the 4th (how soon is now) is a series of behind the scenes and live footage cut together.
The entire Music Video collection only runs for a total of 30 minutes, and is in Stereo sound.

BEHIND THE SCENES is divided into 3 parts, each running for a total of 6:30, 4:30, and 5:30 (respectively).
These are nice short little clips of behind the scenes features for a brief time, but mostly contains new interview footage (Such as "Where did your name TATU Come from?"), also in Stereo sound.

PERFORMANCES contains just 2:
* ALL THE THINGS SHE SAID: MTV Europe awards countdown show
* NOT GONNA GET US: rehearsal

All the things she said is a live performance on what loks to be a european "Total Request Live" show outdoors with a small audiance. It's a real good performance, but is obviousely lipsynched to a tape so it sounds identical to the album version. (4 minutes)

Not gonna get us shows the 2 girls as well as the band in the studio practicing the song, This also looks to be lipsynched, though. (4 minutes)

the PHOTO GALLERY is a collection of about 30 images from photoshoots, there is no "Slideshow" option, so you must use "NEXT" and "BACK" to go between them.

The BONUS FEATURES is also the 'setup' menu where you can select the subtitles (English, Spanish, Brazilian portuguese), but also has a QUESTONS AND ANSWERS Segment.
Questions on this portion include:
"What is the name of your album?" (0:26)
"Tell us some funny stories" (0:54)
"What are some of your hobbies?" (0:24)
"WHat are some of your touring plans?" (0:29)
"What is a normal day for t.a.t.u. like?" (0:45)

You can take off about 10 seconds for each segment because that time is used to have a blank screen with the question, and another 4-5 seconds of blank-screen at the end), it's a disappointment because it turns each of the questions into a short 15 second clip. Another disappointment being no "Play All" option, so you must click each question individually, then return to the menu afterwards).

Overall, It's a nice DVD, but it could have been so much better.

The total runtime on it is under an hour, and with so many long-running music DVDs being released lately, its a little bit of a letdown.
It also doesnt feature Dolby Digital sound like most others, and the video footage seems real compressed. I would have really enjoyed a longer (30 minute) documentary instead of the short clips used. I also would've really liked more Performance footage.

For the casual fan, or even hardcore fan, its still a good DVD and I recommend it fully. I just wish there was a little more in addition to what's already there.

Also of note, however, is this DVD Contains a "green and white" Poster in addition to the DVD insert. This is a 4-page foldout poster of the 2 girls together, something that was real nice to see.

14 of 14 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars tatu dvd and news, August 10, 2005

A Kid's Review

This review is from: t.A.T.u. Screaming for More (DVD)

ok this dvd is good but it could use more music video's but i know they really couldnt make any more from the album.in this dvd it includes :

~*~all the things she said
~*~all the things she said (russian version)or ya sula s uma
~*~not gonna get us
~*~not gonna get us (russian version)or nas ne dagoniat
~*~3o minutes
~*~ how soon is now

otherwise this is a very good dvd it also has extras and even more news if you havnt heard of yulia volkova (the dark haired one )has had a baby girl natasha born on september 23 , 2004 and many are sayin that the group has split up because lena (red haired ) was wanting to go solo that is not true thier manager has a reputation of starting things up ,yet tatu will be realeaseing another album on october 11 ,2005!!!in the US. and they will start a wolrd tour.

30 of 38 people found the following review helpful:

3.0 out of 5 stars Untapped Potential: 2 "Remarkable Rockets" gone to waste..., May 23, 2004

By 

John J. Baker (New York, NY United States) - See all my reviews
(REAL NAME)   

This review is from: t.A.T.u. Screaming for More (DVD)

"I knew I should create a great sensation," exclaimed the rocket...
and he (burned) out!
From "The Remarkable Rocket" by Oscar Wilde

That quote pretty much sums up the career of tATu - Yulia Volkova and Lena Katina. They're not the first pop phenomenon to flash and burn out within the space of two years, but their full potential went untapped (more on that later.) "Screaming for More" definitely did have their most devoted fans craving something beyond the faux-lesbian shtick they perfromed on stage. Sadly, they did not deliver.

"Screaming for More's" North American package could be considered valuable since it contains - aside from "All the Things She Said" - three videos that were not seen Stateside:

First, the melodramatic "Not Gonna Get Us," a fantasy where the two lesbian protagonists scheme on escaping the disapproving authority figures in their neighborhood and flee to a remote, untamed haven as they trade reckless vows of love to one another. In the video, singers Yulia and Lena hi-jack a huge tractor trailer and barrel their way through the snowy Russian wilderness. Along the way, they run over a hapless road worker. They then step out of the cab of the truck and mount the top of its trailer. They bask in their freedom, caress each other and pose heroically as they hurtle heedlessly
into parts unknown. This little drama would have been great shameless fun except for the unsettling image of the innocent road worker being run over. He hardly qualifies as the typical snooty authority figure most teenagers dream of plowing into. He's nothing like the overbearing dad Twisted Sister playfully fling around with slapstick abandon in their "We're Not Gonna Take It" video. This video has compelling images, but it is poorly thought out.

"30 Minutes," a quiet and more tender single where the girls sing of consumating their mutual attraction sexually. The song is coupled with a video that's both erotic, morbid and somewhat unrelated to the shy theme of the duet: Yulia plays a jealous girl who constructs a time bomb and sets it inside a carousel where Lena - Yulia's crush - is fondling and teasing a boy suitor. Naturally, the video ends with a well-shot and well-edited explosion that rains flaming wreckage throughout the amusement park where Yulia prowled after Lena.

tATu do a satisfactory cover of The Smiths' "How Soon is Now?" with Lena's mellower vocals contrasting with Yulia's more piercing pipes. There's one problem: This song is about painful lonliness from the perspective of a young MALE. It begins with the lyrics: I am the SON and the HEIR. In my opinion, a more appropriate selection producer Trevor Horn could have chosen for the Girls to sing from the Smiths' catalog would have been "Sheila Take a Bow." "Sheila" is a sly, playful courtship song where the singer woos the object of his/her desire out of shy aloofness as they playfully bend gender roles. "Take my hand and don't be shy/I'm the girl and you're the guy." "Sheila's" bump-and-grind beat would have fit the duet's image more comfortably, and who knows? It may have become a favorite at high school proms and the dance club circuit (I'm crying over spilt milk, folks.) The video itself is a slapped-together montage of live performances.

The DVD contains three behind-the-scenes featurettes of tATu recording English tracks of their album in Los Angeles and in London with Trevor Horn. (The Buggles/Yes/Frankie Goes
to Hollywood.) These featurettes reveal how poorly packaged and mismanaged tATu were for their American debut: Captioned quotations of questionable origin attributed to the Girls flash on the screen. The featurettes are abruptly edited, giving the viewer the suspicion that there was a serious lack of worthwhile footage. Lena providing uninspired answers to insipid questions while Yulia barely says a word due to her poor command of English. Why not simply interview them in their Mother Tongue with English subtitles? It's embarrasing to behold, they're like female adolescent versions of Bush and Cheney bumbling through a press conference, with their producer Ivan Shapovalov playing the role of a lecherous Karl Rove.

The visual package of artfully shot music videos is clearly designed to overshadow their awkwardness with a North American audience. Their manager, Ivan Shapovalov, basically created a cartoon package of lesbian romance and could have used any two girls as figureheads. So why not dismiss tATu altogether? Mainly because the very same Featurettes that show the weaknesses of the tATu endeavor also give us fleeting moments of Yulia and Lena exhibiting genuine talent and discipline. There is a hand held camera clip of Lena Katina laying down the vocals for a "Stars," a ballad not featured among the videos. The audio source is from a camera mounted mic, so the vocals are untreated by the studio mixing board. The young girl is a masterful vocalist. Another interlude, even more brief, reveals Yulia Volkova as a pianist who runs through a classical piece with an effortless control that put me in mind of Rick Wakeman, the classically trained keyboardist of Yes. I am actually comparing Yulia's command of the instrument with a man who'd been jamming with bands two decades before she was born!

All that untapped potential is the reason why I "mourn" the failure of an act that was the product of a chickenhawk's fevered imagingation (Producer Ivan Shapovalov.) They could have performed songs of homosexual infatuation without being straightjacketed in a pervy, lipstick lesbian image by their producer, an image that predetermined the act's rapid rise and embarrasing decline.

As for the remainder of the DVD, it contains a live perfromance of "All The Things" in Barcelona, Spain and a studio rehearsal of "Not Gonna Get Us" in Los Angeles. Subtitles are in English, Spanish and Brazillian Portuguese and versions of the first two singles are also sung in their original Russian versions ("Ya Shosla S Uma and "Nas Ne Dagoniat," respectively.)