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Generally favorable reviews- based on 391 Ratings
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Positive: 323 out of 391
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Mixed: 31 out of 391
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Negative: 37 out of 391
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BrandonMay 20, 2009
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CraigEOct 2, 2009
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BRaftisJul 3, 2009Boring. Anti-Climactic. It seems as thgoug Green Day didn't even try to make the songs work half as well with each other as they did on American Idiot. It gets better the more you listen to it but not much. I gave it a zero for as large a drop as possible on my vote to lower the average rating...this album should be at about a 6.
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MichaelCMay 16, 2009Green Day has lost complete focus and direction. This isn't even Green Day. They need to drop the make up, and the demographic of 12 year old rich girls who are angry at their parents. Furthermore, rolling stone gave this a 90 and Merriweather post pavilion only got a 70 from them? Total faith lost in rolling stone.
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JalexDMay 18, 2009
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JamesRMay 22, 2009Are you kidding? Who are you people who think it is "masterful" and "ambitious." It's a hollow, rehash of a great album... Nothing to say, but speaks anyway. Terrible.
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RyanSMay 24, 2009This album is exactly the same as before. Furthermore, it is tiring, repetitive and nothing new. Green Day repeated the formula of the previous album and has not brought anything new. The sound "emo" band that continues to influence will only please some fans.
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BryanMJun 11, 2009
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Jul 27, 2021Haha this makes American Idiot look good lol. If you thought green day had lost almost everything that made them good on American Idiot, THEY LOST EVERYTHING THIS TIME! A boring snooze fest really. I love green day, but 2000-2012 wasn't exactly great for them. Thank you Metacritic for letting me use a 0 as a rating.
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The performances are blandly professional, because any major-label rock band of Green Day's abilities could shit this stuff out in their sleep, and emotionally inert. This is the crafting of a modern epic as a dreary day-job routine.
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21st Century Breakdown is far from a bad album, and, like Idiot, will likely be the best release this year from such a popular band.
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It could have easily gone any of several wrong ways, but Green Day's punk has long since been tempered with pop's most attractive attributes, and 21stCentury Breakdown, like its predecessor, is unapologetically accessible and relentlessly exhilarating.