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It Might Get Loud offers a thrilling personal tour of three exceptional electric guitarists' careers that's equally appealing to musicians and rock enthusiasts alike.
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100You'll never see a more tactile expression of the intimacy between artists and their instruments than in Davis Guggenheim's elating It Might Get Loud.
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100A marvelous rock doc that manages to be wistful, tasty, and jam-kicking at the same time.
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100Musically and visually sumptuous.
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It's Page, a joyful instructor and natural storyteller, who steals the spotlight (Robert who? More, please.) Only real complaint: The movie's not loud enough. They should have turned that f***er up to 11.
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In nearly every moment, an incredibly rich mix of their music, groundbreaking, defining, which alone would almost be enough. That It Might Get Loud comes with a righteous story too is a lovely bonus.
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88Does this sound like rock heaven? It is.
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88Davis Guggenheim, the St. Louis director who won an Oscar for "An Inconvenient Truth," mines less controversial material this time around.
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83Each man has his own distinctive style, and yet when they jam together it sounds like the most natural thing in the world.
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80For rock geeks of any age or taste, the lore in this documentary will be catnip.
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75The moments when the guitarists teach the others their best-known riffs are fascinating.
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75The best parts of It Might Get Loud, though, occur when Guggenheim visits with the musicians one on one.
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75With varying degrees of success, the filmmaker gets each musician to talk about the personal and musical roots that blossomed into his technique.
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75It's a pleasure to watch these men perform. These are real-life guitar heroes. But it would have been a treat to see more of them talking shop.
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75Brilliant in its simplicity, as he turns the floor over to the three masters with this simple instruction: The guitar. Discuss.
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70White and The Edge appear guarded, and perhaps a bit intimidated, by Page's Yoda-like status.
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One needn't have a Stratocaster moldering in the closet at home to get a kick out of It Might Get Loud.
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Feels like an iffy concept album with some great singles.
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The resulting jam session ought to be a music geek's wet dream, but there isn't enough common ground to produce more than a few flashes of inspiration.
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63For rock fans, hearing many Led Zeppelin and U2 classics on a theater sound system is worth the price of a ticket.
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63As documentary, it's low concept. But it's never dull.
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60Few of the parts harmonize properly, leaving us with provocative fragments rather than an electrifying whole.
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50Why isn't the film better? Guggenheim doesn't seem to have prodded his subjects in any interesting directions.
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50The trouble is, once you get past the historical information and chummy interviews, you have to put up with the inevitable risk of any ad-hoc jam session: It Might Get Boring.
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50The strain to pull all this together becomes more evident as the movie progresses, and the three-way musical finale, a rickety acoustic run-through of "The Weight," hardly lives up to the stars' reputations.
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40The film's very title is a tease, however: It never gets all that loud, and you might doze off after 30 minutes of watching this unwieldy power trio recount their formative years and visit old haunts before heading on to a soundstage for their minimum rock & roll "summit."
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25An empty exercise.
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EricA10If your a Zeppelin fan you know Pagerarely opens up like that!
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