Featuring performances by popular artists of the 1960s, this concert film highlights the music of the 1967 California festival. Although not all musicians who performed at the Monterey Pop Festival are on film, some of the notable acts include the Mamas and the Papas, Simon & Garfunkel, Jefferson Airplane, the Who, Otis Redding, and the Jimi Hendrix Experience. Hendrix's post-performance antics -- lighting a guitar on fire, breaking it and tossing a part into the audience -- are captured.
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Monterey Pop was released in 1968 and has generally received very positive reviews.
Online reviewers have written 84 reviews, giving Monterey Pop (1968) an average rating of 80%.
Overall, cinema-goers marginally prefer the movie, giving it an average score of 87%, compared to film critics, who gave it a slightly lower average score of 83%.
With a score of 80%, Monterey Pop is above the average Cinafilm score for movies made in 1968, which stands at 61%.
Other movies from 1968 with similar scores include films like The Odd Couple, The Great Silence and Faces.
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