• Network: HBO
  • Series Premiere Date: May 7, 2011
  • Season #: 1
Lady Gaga Presents The Monster Ball Tour: At Madison Square Garden Image
Metascore

Universal acclaim - based on 4 Critics What's this?

User Score

Generally favorable reviews- based on 36 Ratings

  • Summary: HBO broadcasts Lady Gaga's concert recorded in February at New York's Madison Square Garden.
  • Genre(s): Reality
Score distribution:
  1. Positive: 3 out of 4
  2. Negative: 0 out of 4
  1. Reviewed by: Linda Stasi
    May 5, 2011
    100
    If you're not a big fan of Gaga, or even if you think she's Madonna lite, this HBO concert film will make you a true believer--or a believer, at any rate.
  2. Reviewed by: Tim Stack
    May 3, 2011
    91
    Filled with more shoulder pads than an episode of The Golden Girls, the special is actually at its best between songs when Gaga dishes out hilarious asides like "The only thing better than a unicorn is a gay unicorn."
  3. Reviewed by: Paul Schrodt
    May 2, 2011
    63
    Unsurprisingly, HBO's Lady Gaga Presents the Monster Ball Tour: At Madison Square Garden raises more questions about Stefani Germanotta than it answers, which is probably as it should be.
  4. Reviewed by: Jed Gottlieb
    May 9, 2011
    58
    You just have to wade through a landfill of lame camp and gratuitous weirdness to get to the pop center of Gaga's HBO show.
Score distribution:
  1. Positive: 12 out of 17
  2. Mixed: 0 out of 17
  3. Negative: 5 out of 17
  1. It's just an amazing show. She does what she knows to do. It's amazing the way she feels the emotions of her fans and the way she sings. She DOES have voice not like the others... Collapse
  2. This review contains spoilers, click expand to view. excellent show with a great performance, also with a awesome movements that is very aggressive, gaga is a fabulous singer, she is a fantastic artist with a great domain of the scene, in conclusion is a perfect presentation. Expand
  3. I'm 65 and thought I might hate it, but it works if you think of it as musical theater. The first half was too techno for my tastes but in the latter half when Gaga talked a lot to the audience I got into it more, but Gaga's ego can be off-putting. She does have talent and works hard for the audience. Expand
  4. She uses so much post tuning between the mic and the speaker, this may as well be the synthesized start up tone for a dell computer. Only its terrible. This is more or less the desperate last grasps to stay famous for lady Gagag Expand

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