Movie DVD Store (UK) - U2 - Popmart Live From Mexico City (Special Edition) [2007]

	List Price: £24.99 Our Price: £17.98 Availability: Usually dispatched within 24 hours Manufacturer: Universal Music Operations Starring: Bono, Adam Clayton, Larry Mullen Jr., The Edge Directed By: David Mallet
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Aspect Ratio: 1.33:1 Audience Rating: Suitable for 15 years and over Binding: DVD EAN: 0602517335325 Format: Box set Label: Universal Music Operations Manufacturer: Universal Music Operations Number Of Discs: 2 Number Of Items: 2 Publisher: Universal Music Operations Region Code: 2 Release Date: 2007-09-10 Running Time: 126 Studio: Universal Music Operations Theatrical Release Date: 1997-12-03
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Spotlight customer reviews: Customer Rating: Summary: flawed but interesting Comment: This concert is interesting in some ways. The amazing set and colours must be seen to be believed. The crowd is great as well, as are the band. The only problem is Bono's voice. Frankly, it's awful. From the sixth song you can hear it starting to give out, ruining Pride (In the Name of Love), With or Without You, and some others. Desire is a mess as well. If you want to see a great spectacle, get this DVD. If you want to hear great renditions of songs, get Rattle and Hum, Slane Castle, or Live in Sydney. This is the U2 that considered splitting the band up if their next album wasn't a success (luckily it was). The songs from Pop aren't the best either, although Mofo is a classic. In short, it's good for the hardcore fan like me, but not for the type who wants to buy just the one U2 concert. Customer Rating: Summary: At last Popmart on DVD Comment: I had the pleasure of witnesing Popmart at Leeds in 1997 and the very next day i was phoning Island records to see if it would be released on video as it was a amazing concert.It took a few years to come out,and when it did i added it to my collection.I have been longing for Popmart to be re-mastered on to DVD for ages and now it has,and it is better than ever.This DVD really does the sound justice,at the live concert on the night it was fantastic,and now on this DVD it lives up to that night!If you have a surround system get it on to the DTS setting or 5.1 and crank it up!!The bonus disc is also a credit,with Lemon for sale and a tour of the tour well worth watching. At the time (1997) Popmart was slated as U2 going overboard and believing in there own hype to much,but watching it now in 2008,they were ahead of there time with this and credit to them for giving it to us. Popmart is open for buisness! Well worth a visit! Customer Rating: Summary: U2 at their commercial nadir...and their creative peak. Comment: 10 summers ago, inside a grey football stadium in North London, I was wowed and thrilled by U2's bleeding edge "PopMart" presentation. Unlike anything the world had seen before - or since - the worlds largest television screen, the worlds only 40 foot travelling disco mirrorball lemon, and the world's then biggest band were a nearly unstoppable combination. At the time, faced with the rise of Britpop and the uncertain musical climate - where U2 hadn't been famous quite long enough to be cemented as Dinosaurs of Longevity - and some poor opening shows on the tour, "PopMart" saw U2 on the commercial skids (playing to a third-full stadiums in the USA) and fighting for their lives. As a result, 2001's subsequent "Elevation Tour" saw the band stepping back from this musical limb, performing a less ambitious stage, playing and exploring with more traditional styles. After ten years away from DVD (ideally this should have been U2's first released on the format in early 1998), "PopMart" is ripe for critical reappraisal. Set free of baffled criticism from dunderhead writers scared of intelligence and ambition, time has been kind to "PopMart". "PopMart" was a fantastic, gutsy tour. Musically the band were moving at the cutting edge of technology and a pioneering vision. The show neatly blends U2's earnest political hectoring - at that time Bono had yet to bore the entire world with his ambitions to be world leader - with a playful, and excellent deconstruction of the nature of fame, capitalism and consumerism to create an irreverent, intelligent, compelling experience. Visually and sonically, "PopMart" has never been better. Images are sharp and concise, the sound is clear and spotless. Clearly, this is a vast improvement upon the 1988 VHS and VCD releases. The editing style is never confusing, and manages to accurately convey the sense of woah! that sharing a field with The PopMartHeadFkExtravaganza was. In concert, the sometimes under-realized material on the "Pop" record is extrapolated to its full potential - songs like "gone", "Mofo" and "Please" are approximately several thousand times more effective and engaging than the sometimes staid and flat studio versions. Conisseurs will plump for 2 disc DVD deluxe edition : thankfully this manages to far outweigh the fluff-and-nonsense watch-once-and-file bonus materials on the "Elevation", "Vertigo" and "Zoo TV" discs with material designed to do something more than merely fleece the faithful. There are 8 bonus live cuts from Edmonton and Rotterdam (sadly all duplicating songs on the main feature, thereby ignoring shows such as Santiago and Johannesburg that were broadcast on TV and featured songs not on either of these discs), several rather interesting backstage features and interviews, and some other random bits and pieces. There is also a frankly useless video for "Last Night In Hell". Whilst trainspotters could rightly lament the lack of "Working In A PopMart (The Roadies)" and "A Year In Pop" that are both easily available - and that there is easily space on the disc for - there is no sense of being shortchanged on the extras. Overall "PopMart" captures U2 at the apex of their 'weird' years, providing a convincing and excellent performance in a brave and bold setting that is both visually interesting and musically exciting, reflecting the spirit of the then defiant U2 as they explored new territories. One could argue that PopMart was the last time that U2 were edgy or truly adventurous - and this DVD captures them right at the edge of their journey on the deep edges of discotheque deep space. Customer Rating: Summary: Amazing Comment: in my opinion, this gig is on par with ZOO TV from sydney. visually stunning, a great atmosphere & a wicked set list. the opening few tracks still get me pumped! the extras on the bonus disc are enjoyable as well. about time it came out on DVD. Customer Rating: Summary: The best U2 concert DVD package ever... Comment: I won't say it's the best U2 concert on film ever, but I personally think it's as good as any other. Just seeing the extravagance of Popmart again is a real joy. I don't think we will see it's like ever again. I mean, the amazing mirrorball lemon, the Mc D's influenced arch and that huge video wall with it's Roy Lichtenstein animations. Truly stunning. The 'Pop' album may be flawed, but the tour and this era of U2 wasn't the lemon that some say it was. History will be kind I think, and this DVD records a band at their most playful and musically inventive. The band are clearly having a blast in the OTT world they have created on stage. It's almost as if in response to those po-faced fans/journo's that were trying to make U2 feel ashamed of the Pop album and the subsequent tour the band actually revel in it all, and make the most of what they had created - two fingers up to the critics and all that.... The main concert has been cleaned up visually and sonically to as good a standard as you can expect for a 1997 filmed show. It really looks/sounds great for those with nice A/V gear. But it's the bonus DVD (and the packaging) that shine for me. Some U2 2-disc sets have disappointed (Vertigo, Chicaco anyone..). But not here. The band and the exec produced Tara Mullen (Larry's sis) have clearly put a lot of love and attention in to the whole package, in particular the bonus disc which has lots of great stuff on it. You can feast yourself on as much Popmart as you can handle quite frankly! The Popmart shopping game is cool.. it's like your own personal Generation Game conveyor belt. The packaging is great too. I mean, in the spirit of Popmart you even get a pop-up The Edge to marvel at ;) Nice. So all in all a great 2 disc set here. The best yet from Dublins finest. One curiosity though..... When you select in-store security camera content from the bonus disc you get this weird homemade video featuring this couple in Dublin. It's set to music with Karaoke words on screen! What the hell is that all about boys! ***** 5 Stars. Buy it. More Reviews