Review of Taking Woodstock (2009) by Sarah C — 05 Mar 2011

I LOVE watching the video of Woodstock 69. This movie is okay. It could've been much better considering it's about Woodstock 69!

This review of Taking Woodstock (2009) was written by Sarah C on 05 Mar 2011.

Taking Woodstock has generally received mixed reviews.

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By Dillinger P (324) on 17 Nov 2014

Not worth its 2 hours.....Lets just put it at that. And oh... watch Liev Schreiber as a transgender…

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By Brett H (1,346) on 20 Mar 2013

Gets off to a rocky start, then the preperations for the music festival are fascinating and then the film just kind of fizzles out into obscurity…

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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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By Ken C (567) on 27 Nov 2013

This looks to be as much fun as Almost Famous, one of my favorite movies. I cannot wait to see it…

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By Claudia Puig (2,080) for USA Today (4,117) on 18 Oct 2016

This is Woodstock from another perspective -- one without Jimi Hendrix or Janis Joplin…

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By Chris B (2,902) on 23 Apr 2013

For a movie being about one of the largest music festivals of the past century, there is a distinct lack of music in the film…

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By Stephen Holden (1,707) for The New York Times (9,847) on 09 May 2013

This likable, humane movie is not an attempt to recreate the epochal Woodstock Music and Art Fair captured in Michael Wadleigh’s documentary…

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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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By Jose Luis M (587) on 20 Jan 2015

Lo mejor la recreaciÃ²n del mÃ¬tico concierto de Woodstock y el diseÃ±o de producciÃ²n…

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