Review of Taking Woodstock (2009) by Lauren S — 12 Jun 2010

Not at all what I expected. Boring and slow. Characters and performances were below average.

This review of Taking Woodstock (2009) was written by Lauren S on 12 Jun 2010.

Taking Woodstock has generally received mixed reviews.

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By Carrie Rickey (1,198) for Philadelphia Inquirer (3,920) on 18 Sep 2013

Lee distills the flavor of this transforming event and hints at how it transformed some who were there. His movie is a contact high…

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Ultimately, even Lee appears to lose interest, flashing none of his usual visual panache and, at the end, content to forego any considered…

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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 Lucas M (648) on 11 Jun 2014

Taking Woodstock start interesting, but went the film begings to show the festival, Woodstock stay disagreeably sweet and presents a not so…

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By Alberto A (155) on 05 Jan 2014

From what I've heard, the Woodstock Festival was a pivotal moment in the history of the 20th century. It defined a whole generation…

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By Chris Kaltenbach (562) for Baltimore Sun (1,823) on 28 Sep 2013

A love letter to the time, and the period, and the legend that has grown around both…

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