August 21, 2011

Glee: The 3D Concert Movie (2011)

2/5

Glee: The 3D Concert Movie is, as the title so blandly suggests, a concert movie of Glee in 3D. It also briefly documents how the lives of three teens were changed by Glee, which is surprisingly fascinating and affecting but also chintzy and overly melodramatic. It gives a little staying power and substance to an otherwise forgettable and disappointing film. The problem with releasing a concert movie for a TV show is that there are newer, more popular songs with every new episode that everyone will want to hear when they watch this movie. Not knowing when this concert took place, especially in the context of the show, will make it very unsatisfying to people who are expecting to hear specific songs that were released after this movie was made. Unfortunately, there's no way to really find out which songs they will sing and which ones they will not unless you go see the movie. And that's really my problem: I wanted to hear them sing a lot of songs they never sang. The ones that they did sing were great and I really enjoyed them, but it was an entirely frustrating experience overall.


Of note, in the screening I saw, the audio and video were out of sync by about half a second throughout the entire movie. That, combined with the bad 3D filmmaking, made it all the more headache-inducing and annoying.

IMDb link: http://www.imdb.com/title/tt1922612/