U2 - PopMart Live from Mexico City (Limited Edition)

U2 - PopMart Live from Mexico City (Limited Edition)
by David Mallet

U2 - PopMart Live from Mexico City (Limited Edition)
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Actor: U2
Director: David Mallet
DVD: Region Code 1
Audio: English (Original Language)
Format: AC-3, Color, Dolby, DTS Surround Sound, DVD-Video, Enhanced, Live, NTSC
Picture Format: 1.33:1
Running Time: 126 minutes
DVD Release Date: 2007-09-18
Audience Rating: Unrated
Studio: Island Records/Interscope/UMe

Movie Reviews of U2 - PopMart Live from Mexico City (Limited Edition)

Movie Review: FANTASTIC SHOW!!!!
Summary: 5 Stars

I got this on a whim.... i have ALWAYS loved U2.... BUT always in the intimate settings, i never got into the PopMart / Zoo Tv thing....

So i got this just to make sure that i DIDNT like it....

AND IT BLEW ME AWAY......

incredible show, visuals, vocals, etc.....

GREAT WITH POT!!!

Summary of U2 - PopMart Live from Mexico City (Limited Edition)

U2's PopMart Live from Mexico City is released on DVD for the first time on September 18th in two formats, a Special Limited Edition 2-DVD Deluxe Packaging version and a single disc, Standard version. Described as a sci-fi disco supermarket, the PopMart Tour opened in its "spiritual home", Las Vegas on April 25, 1997. All trash and kitsch, PopMart introduced a giant mirrorball lemon, a 100 foot cocktail stick - complete with olive, and the works of Lichtenstein, Warhol and Haring, to a live rock audience: a production experience never quite seen before. Filmed at the Foro Sol Autodromo in Mexico City on December 3, 1997, PopMart Live from Mexico City was directed by David Mallet and first released on video the following year. Both the video and audio have been digitally remastered and the DVD includes a brand new 5.1 surround mix in DTS and Dolby Digital of the concert. The single disc, Standard version will contain only the concert material and the Special Limited Edition 2-DVD version will feature on the 2nd bonus disc, nine previously unreleased live audio and video tracks, four documentaries, a PopMart tour visuals montage, and DVD-ROM extras.
This stunning concert documentary sheds fresh light on U2's controversial 1997 Popmart tour, the Irish rockers' gaudy, epic trek in support of their electronica-edged Pop album. Mixed reactions to the pulsing, dance friendly music on Pop and disappointing ticket sales to stateside Popmart shows were interpreted as evidence that the band's new sound and look were merely opportunistic.

Yet one need only view Popmart Live alongside the Rolling Stones' contemporaneous Bridges to Babylon 1998 long-form video to grasp U2's underlying passion and conviction. While Popmart trumps the Stones (ringmasters of the original rock & roll circus and among the principal inventors of stadium rock) in terms of sheer scale, U2's presentation still strikes thematic sparks missing from the Stones' more conservative designs for the Bridges stage.

With its vast, ramped stage and enveloping video backdrop, the Popmart set serves the band's posttechno impulses, yet the music remains rooted in U2's passionate, high-flying rock style, using its skittering dance rhythms and garish pop-art motifs to support the band's underlying themes, not replace them. Filmed in Mexico City before a huge reverent crowd, the concert balances close-ups against the quartet's often mesmerizing staging effects; the camera work sustains a sense of the show's outsized physical setting, while expertly closing the distance between us and the band.

The band also shrewdly integrates older songs into the pumped up, burnished arranging style heard on Pop while stripping down newer material in less varnished, more vulnerable settings. A series of duets with just Bono and the Edge on acoustic guitars underscores that strategy. --Sam Sutherland

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