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Air Guitar Nation
Docurama / Shadow Distribution Inc.
MPAA RATING: R for some language and brief nudity
Starring
Dan Crane,
Gordon Hintz,
David S. Jung,
and
Zac Munro
A battle of naked ambition played out on the national and, ultimately, world stage, Air Guitar Nation chronicles the birth of the U.S. Air Guitar Championships as legions of aspiring rock stars live out their dreams on a quest to become the world champion in a strange world where musical ability plays second fiddle to virtual virtuosity. (Docurama Films)
| GENRE(S): |
Documentary
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| DIRECTED BY: |
Alexandra Lipsitz
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| RELEASE DATE: |
DVD: August 28, 2007
Theatrical: March 23, 2007
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| RUNNING TIME: |
81 minutes, Color |
| ORIGIN: |
USA |

All critic scores are converted to a 100-point scale. If a critic does not indicate a score, we assign a score based on the general impression given by the text of the review. Learn more...
83
Entertainment Weekly
Owen Gleiberman
When C-Diddy (a.k.a. David Jung), in his samurai superman suit, does his note-perfect, lip-twisting, belly-jiggling manic mime of Extreme's ''Play With Me,'' it's hard not to grin and admit that, yes, this is almost an art form.

80
Village Voice
Rob Nelson
My long strums are pretty f---ing tight," gushes one faux-ax-stroker in this slick, hilarious, and at times even suspenseful ode to competitive mock-rock and/or the further decline of Western civ.

80
Salon.com
Andrew O'Hehir
I don't know whether to call it interpretive dance for dudes or performance art or just a highly developed form of wanking. Who cares? It seriously rocks.

80
Newsweek
David Ansen
The nutty thing is, by the end of this jolly, oddly compelling and genuinely suspenseful documentary, the ridiculousness of such notions seems open to genuine debate.

78
Austin Chronicle
Toddy Burton
Flat out, Air Guitar Nation (winner of the Audience Award at South by Southwest 06) is a damn good time.

75
San Francisco Chronicle
Justin Berton
In this pitch-perfect documentary about the very real rise of air guitar competition in the United States, and two of its top performers, stony thoughts will arise as to whether one is suddenly trapped inside a satire that got wrapped in a reality. Or vice versa, man.

75
TV Guide
Maitland McDonagh
Without their efforts, ordinary moviegoers would never know that air-guitar competitors must craft a series of one-minute routines, some to songs they've only just heard, or that their efforts are judged on the 4.0 to 6.0 scale used to rank competitive figure skaters. Important to know? No. Fascinating? Absolutely.

75
The Globe and Mail (Toronto)
Liz Clayton
The film manages to make surprisingly convincing gestures toward the power of communion, and indeed pantomime, that make the world shine a bit more hopeful.

70
The New York Times
Matt Zoller Seitz
The movie's wild performances and droll humor are tough to resist.

70
Variety
Ronnie Scheib
With equal measures of showmanship, patriotism and irony, hundreds vie at NYC's Pussycat Lounge for the East Coast Division of the first-ever nationwide air guitar championship for the right to eventually represent the U.S. at the world championship.

70
Los Angeles Times
Kevin Crust
It's one of the charms of Air Guitar Nation that much of it plays like a mockumentary in which you're not quite sure who's pulling your leg. But it's real, even if the guitars are not.

67
Portland Oregonian
Shawn Levy
There are occasional moments of wisdom, drama and emotion, but we never quite forget the blunt confession of one of the founders of the world championship, who admits that the whole thing began as a joke. Psst, buddy: it still is.

67
Christian Science Monitor
Peter Rainer
Director Alexandra Lipsitz doesn't do much more than chronicle the noise, but it's intermittently fun stuff.

63
Rolling Stone
Peter Travers
Documentarian Alexandra Lipsitz believes that air-guitar competitions are worth a whole feature-length movie. She's wrong, of course. But the fun lasts longer than you might think.

63
Boston Globe
Janice Page
A semiserious documentary about a cult of performance art that until recently was never meant to be taken seriously.


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