Review of Taking Woodstock (2009) by Kevin H — 29 Feb 2012

A quirky movie that I enjoyed watching . . . but can't actually call a good movie.

This review of Taking Woodstock (2009) was written by Kevin H on 29 Feb 2012.

Taking Woodstock has generally received mixed reviews.

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By Anthony Lane (1,079) for The New Yorker (1,837) on 20 Jun 2014

You can’t deny the smiling mood that wafts through the film like incense, and to that extent it honors the original three days; but not once…

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By Theresa C (52) on 07 Nov 2012

I love this movie it was amazing ive always been really into the hippy lifestyle and jst this simple movie breaks tht down in twenty minutes…

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By Jeff B (2,998) on 01 Mar 2013

Really well done look at the events that came together to put on the 1969 Woodstock festival…

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Lee keeps things afloat with an appealing air of levity, including a fun but restrained use of split-screen, an homage to the 1970 doc, as…

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The picture serves up intermittent pleasures but is too raggedy and laid-back for its own good, its images evaporating nearly as soon as they…

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By Roger Ebert (5,190) for Chicago Sun-Times (7,580) on 17 Oct 2015

Taking Woodstock has the freshness of something being created, not remembered…

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By Tom K (632) on 13 Jan 2014

I'm surprised that this movie didn't do well, I like it…

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By Michael Dequina (1,684) for TheMovieReport.com (1,582) on 25 Jan 2014

Some colorful character turns cannot make up for the charisma void at the center that is Martin…

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By Daniel P (2,457) on 26 Feb 2013

It never really reached a peak.. I was always expecting the movie to really begin. but it had a nice atmosphere, and I liked the characters…

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By Philip Wilding (43) for Empire (3,446) on 11 May 2017

One man’s near-emotionless trip through an event that was the high watermark for US counterculture moves along without any real sense of…

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