If the boys are dreamy and smooth enough for that pink iPod on the ride home from school, that doesn’t mean they have the juice to carry a 76 minute documentary. And at 76 minutes, the movie is still too long.
Jonas Brothers - The Concert Experience (2009)
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Reviews Counted:70
Fresh:16
Rotten:54
Average Rating:4.2/10
Consensus: Jonas Brothers: The 3-D Concert Experience should please the brothers' adoring followers, but for non-converts, this concert film is largely flat and unenlightening.
Runtime: 76 mins
Genre: Musical & Performing Arts
US Box Office: $19,024,826
Synopsis: Pop singing sensations the Jonas Brothers make their feature-film debut in this concert experience. From their beginnings on the Disney Channel to the enormous fame that came after the 2007 release... Pop singing sensations the Jonas Brothers make their feature-film debut in this concert experience. From their beginnings on the Disney Channel to the enormous fame that came after the 2007 release of their self-titled debut album, the New Jersey natives have followed a similar path to other tween pop idols like Miley Cyrus and Hilary Duff. But unlike those two, the real-life brothers have mostly appeared as themselves, not adopting on-screen personae like Cyrus’s Hannah Montana. For a band so young, they take their music seriously and hold their fans dear. While they’ve got producers working left and right to perfect their smooth look and sound, all three young men have a say in the band’s creative direction. Taking their musical act to the big screen, Kevin, Joe, and Nick delight their large pre-teen and teenage fan base with their cute looks, youthful energy, and musical optimism. The Disney film takes Jonas fans along with the band as they travel across the U.S. on their "Burning Up" tour, with guest spots by Taylor Swift and Demi Lovato. The film is packed not only with concert material, but also with backstage happenings as the band uses its pop sensibilities to try to make sense of love, newfound celebrity, and growing up. Filmed in July and August of 2008, the film focuses largely on two concert venues: Anaheim's Honda Center, and New York’s Madison Square Garden. Fan favorites are performed alongside one previously unreleased Jonas Brothers track, "Love Is On Its Way." [More]
Starring: Kevin Jonas, Nick Jonas, Joe Jonas, Demi Lovato
Starring: Kevin Jonas, Nick Jonas, Joe Jonas, Demi Lovato, Taylor Swift
Director: Bruce Hendricks
Director: Bruce Hendricks
Producer: Art Repola, Johnny Wright, Philip McIntyre, Kevin Jonas, Alan Sacks
Studio: Walt Disney Pictures
Reviews for Jonas Brothers - The Concert Experience
The brothers are no Beatles, but it won't matter to fans who'll just be happy to spend some concentrated time with their crushes.
Far be it from me to deny that girls just want to have fun, but I hope they realize that once this latest teen idol fad has run its course, a mighty, mortifying hangover most surely awaits.
Like their fellow tweenie sensation Hannah Montana, the boys are the perfect stars to get the three-dimensional treatment.
We learn nothing about who they are or where they come from -- they may not even have parents, for all we know, since the adult accompanying them is usually their bodyguard.
This tepid concert film does the Jonas Brothers no favors, not that the band's tweener fans will notice.
At 76 minutes, the film is nearly twice as long as even the band’s most dedicated admirers might need, with weariness setting in around the 40-minute mark.
For those of us dwelling outside the Jonas demo, the small charms in the 'candid' moments have little to do with the boys' talents as actors, and a lot to do with the revered icons whose cheeky behavior they're imitating.
At best, they're an all–Davy Jones Monkees with varsity soccer co-captain good looks.
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