Cher - The Farewell Tour
by David Mallet
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Actor: CherDirector: David Mallet
Brand: Image Entertainment
DVD: Region Code 1
Audio: English (Unknown); English (Original Language)
Format: Color, Dolby, DTS Surround Sound, DVD, NTSC, Widescreen
Picture Format: 1.78:1
Running Time: 92 minutes
DVD Release Date: 2003-08-26
Audience Rating: NR (Not Rated)
Studio: Image Entertainment
Movie Reviews of Cher - The Farewell Tour
Movie Review: I laughed at Cher, but this show desserves full respect.
Summary: 5 Stars
I never really considered Cher as an artist to recon with - oh well, I new the hits, and I even liked quite a few of them, but I never really took her seriously. However, this show, with it loads of everything-but-serious extravaganza, actually proves her to be a very good singer, and an entertainer that deserves huge respect.
First ... make an experiment: Put on this DVD, without turning on your TV set, just listen to the music (or take the seperate CD release with the music from the show). What is easily forgotten in all the costume changes and wigs is, that this live performance is really amazing. This is all live, and Cher does an amazing vocal performance - and her full band plays without a single error. Most of the songs performed here are actually way better than the studio versions (highlights are All Or Nothing, I Found Someone, Bang Bang, All I Really Want To Do, The Way Of Love, After All, Just Like Jesse James, The Shoop Shoop Song and Believe). She actually performs U2's I Still Haven't Found What I'm Looking For better than U2 - and yes, I'm a fan of U2. Also, 3 bonus songs are added, which are all great - We All Sleep Alone is a favorite of mine.
However, the visuals of this show is a complete world in it's own. Seven full costume changes are performed ('full' meaning everything from top to bottom including the wig is changed), and I won't even try to describe the costumes - fancyfull is too bland a word to use in this context. Minimalistic, if only in size and not in looks, is not beside the point, however. Imagine your 60 year old grandma turning up in an outfit consisting only of pailletes on strings, and which you could probably hold in your fisted hand. Well ... I can't help quote her from an earlier performance: "My mother told me, that when I was 2 years old I use to run around naked and sing ... And now I do it for a living."
But this is Cher, and she gets away with it - probably because she considers herself with a lot of irony and humor - her monologues to the audience are simply fabulous, and had me howling with laughter. Let me quote: "We have to have these costume changes, cause otherwise drag queens all over the world will be calling each other tomorrow, saying 'I saw the Cher show last night - no costume changes, no wigs ... Do you think she's lost the will to live?'." And no, she deffenitely hasn't, as she concludes.
The stage show is nothing but spectacular - dancers on the stage as well as above it, acrobats, an animated elephant, you name it, it's there. And lots of clips from movies and videos on the giant screen above the stage - enough to keep a dozen of eyes occupied without any of them seing the same thing. She wanted to make, not the greatest show, but the Cherest show on earth, and she deffenitely succeded.
The sound on this release is unfortunately the one very weak spot - I guess that's why they released the CD to accompagny the DVD. The sound mix is horrible - I don't know whoever did it, but that person ought to start looking for another job immediately. The sound is fine most of the time, but each time the music gets more quite, the volume on the vocals gets extremely high. This happens quite a lot of times during the show, and it sounds awfull.
The extras are great - not only does it include 3 songs not featured in the TV broadcasted version of the concert (Save Up All Your Tears, We All Sleep Alone and A Different Kind Of Love Song) but also her remake of The West Side Story in which she does - of course - star in all the roles. Go figure ... this is hilarious.
In conclusion, this DVD captures Cher at her best, and everybody interested in the music of the last 50 years should have this DVD - after seeing this, you no longer are in doubt why she managed to be a central figure in showbussiness for 40 years (!). The show is quite probably unlike anything we will ever see again, and it is with a certain amount of regret that we say goodbye to Cher with this DVD, cause who could ever really take her place? As the diva says herself: "There are all these young girls coming along to take ... well, they are not going to take my place, but they are coming to take somebody's place ... Britney, J.Lo or whatever they're called."
Rating: 9/10 (One point sadly lost due to lousy sound mix)
Summary of Cher - The Farewell Tour
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