Dion: Live in Concert
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DVD Cover Information Actor: Dion Director: David Niles Brand: Image Entertainment DVD: Region Code 1 Audio: English (Unknown); English (Original Language) Format: Closed-captioned, Color, Dolby, DVD, NTSC, Widescreen Picture Format: 1.78:1 Running Time: 60 minutes DVD Release Date: 2004-09-14 Audience Rating: NR (Not Rated) Studio: Image Entertainment |
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Movie Reviews of Dion: Live in Concert
Movie Review: Still rockin'
Summary: 4 Stars
Okay, there IS something strange about watching a late-middle aged man singing `Why Must I Be a Teenager in Love?" Still, it remains the anthem of adolescent angst, and Dion, circa 2004, not only wrote it, but kept his musical chops pretty much intact, too.
I sought this dvd out after hearing Dion on a public radio interview program a while back and, after getting over the fact he was still around, getting knocked to the floor over how good he sounds. All the old hits are on this disk - Runaround Sue, Donna the Prima Donna, The Wanderer - with Dion being ably backed up by on keyboards and drums, guitar and sax. Dion doesn't talk to the live audience, but the program is interspersed with Dion and acoustic guitar sitting on the stool and reminiscing. There are also plenty of cutout scenes, including a vintage tape of Dion's appearance on the Dick Clark Show.
For the hour's worth of great songs I still couldn't give this one five stars. Dion's in the Rock `n Roll Hall of Fame, and he deserves a biography - you know, pictures of his youth, recap of his career, interview with old neighborhood friends, voice-over narration. There are text-only reproductions of testimonial letters from Paul Simon, Lou Reed, Waylon Jennings, Bob Dylan. The letters are tough to read on anything less than an HD television. They're nice, but the subject deserves more than that.