U2: Popmart Live from Mexico City

U2: Popmart Live from Mexico City
by David Mallet

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Actor: Dione Orrom / Co-Producer, Ned O'Hanlon / Producer, Paul McGuinness / Executive Producer, Sheila Roche / Associate Producer, U2
Director: David Mallet
Brand: Uni
DVD: Region Code 1
Audio: English (Original Language)
Format: AC-3, Color, Dolby
Picture Format: 1.33:1
Running Time: 126 minutes
DVD Release Date: 2007-09-18
Audience Rating: NR (Not Rated)
Studio: Island Records/Interscope/UMe

DVD Reviews of U2: Popmart Live from Mexico City

DVD Review: "POPMart was our finest hour..."
Summary: 3 Stars

1. Mofo
2. I Will Follow
3. Gone
4. Even Better Than The Real Thing
5. Last Night On Earth
6. Until The End Of The World
7. New Years Day
8. Pride (In The Name Of Love!)
9. I Still Haven't Found What I'm Looking For
10. All I Want Is You
11. Desire
12. Staring At The Sun
13. Sunday Bloody Sunday
14. Bullet The Blue Sky
15. Please
16. Where The Streets Have No Name
Encore:
17. Discotheque
18. If You Wear That Velvet Dress
19. With Or Without You
Encore:
20. Hold Me, Thrill Me, Kiss Me, Kill Me
21. Mysterious Ways
22. One
23. Wake Up Dead Man

I never was that big a fan of Pop or POPMart, but even down to Bono says that PopMart was their finest hour, and there HAS to be a reason for this to be said. I just never got into the body suit worn by Bono, I never got into the performance of the songs from Pop, considering it's not my favorite U2 cd out there...

...BUT, U2 do make up for it with the performances of some of the older songs. "I Will Follow," "Pride," "Sunday Bloody Sunday," even though it was acoustic, "Bullet The Blue Sky," and "Where The Streets Have No Name." Also "One" and "With or Without You" in the encores, all of those stand out and help me raise the star rating to three.

I've just never been a fan of Pop or PopMart as a whole, unfortunately.

DVD Review: Awesome
Summary: 5 Stars

I was able to see U2 for the first time at PopMart in Salt Lake, Utah and it was AWESOME!!!!!! You are really an anal person if you can't get past the giant lemon, and U2 will never be able to please people like you. The lemon, it was the coolest!!! I got chills when they came out of the lemon at intermission. Obviously you lemon haters have never seen a lame Rolling Stones show with a giant snake-like contraption for their prop. I haven't heard anyone crying that they destroyed their careers because of that. So why the uproar over this album and tour, I don't get it. If you are a true U2 fan this album was great in its own right. The lighting the stage the lemon, etc. did not detract from the songs at all in concert. Bullet the blue sky was one of the best songs they did that night and it comes from 1987. This concert is great and is worth having in your dvd library, if you are a true U2 fan.

DVD Review: Really a Mega Show
Summary: 5 Stars

This is really a mega show. Prefect sound and edition. If you don't have the opportunity to see U2 live this DVD take you there.

DVD Review: A MUST HAVE FOR U2 FANS
Summary: 5 Stars

Great DVD, I already have it on VHS, but because of the DVD audio and video I highly recomend you get it, specially if you happend to be at any concert during that tour.
SO BUY IT NOW!!!!!!

DVD Review: Washed out video and mediocre sound quality
Summary: 3 Stars

THIS DVD IS LIKE YOU ARE THERE
-THERE IN THE LAST ROW OF THE STADIUM

As the a name says, this is concert video of the U2 in Mexico City during the tour to support the CD "Pop". It is a little over 2 hours and there are no extras besides the sound options.

THE BEST THING ABOUT THIS DVD IS THAT IT AUTOMATICALLY PLAYS WHEN YOU PUT IN YOUR DVD PLAYER. You don't have to fish through menus to get the concert started. And it begins right at the start of the concert. Although there is intro music and the band is shown walking to the stage, it is still enjoyable. There is none of the pre-concert crap to get through like some videos have.

This DVD is much like the CD "Pop". "Pop" had a muted, distant feel to it. It was not as sharp and bright as earlier U2 albums. This concert and video is much the same way. So, it is a little hard to really get into and feel as if you are there. It more like being in the back row.

The stage show is very bright with vivid colors, but that does not come through in the video. It is as if the bright lights washed out the video.

Most of the camera shots are from far away. Even the close ups have a feel that they were taken from afar (like a megazoom was used).

The sound quality is mediocre. This is the worst sounding U2 live I have ever heard. Some have raved about the remixing of the sound to 5.1 for the DVD. Well, you do get some interesting sound effects, but I don't think the sound quality is very good. The sound quality is actually better if you listen to the DVD in stereo than in 5.1.

The sound and video really don't seem to go together. They are not out of sync, that just don't seem to match. It doesn't pull you into the concert.

This was the last U2 concert tour with over the top theatrics. Generally, I enjoy a good stage show, with lights and props. But, I think that some of the things here were just silly and pointless. like the job orb they all pop out of.

What about the music and the performance? Just like any U2 concert, the music and performance are great. There are some great versions of songs. The only real problem is that there are the 7 songs that have been played to death and played at almost every U2 concert since the songs first came out. Fortunately, with Sunday, Bloody, Sunday, and Desire, the songs are a played a bit different and aren't that tedious.

In general, it is an OK concert DVD, but the high quality that you would expect out of U2.

Description of U2: Popmart Live from Mexico City

U2's PopMart Live from Mexico City is released on DVD for the first time on September 18th in two formats, a Special Limited Edition 2-DVD Deluxe Packaging version and a single disc, Standard version. Described as a sci-fi disco supermarket, the PopMart Tour opened in its "spiritual home", Las Vegas on April 25, 1997. All trash and kitsch, PopMart introduced a giant mirrorball lemon, a 100 foot cocktail stick - complete with olive, and the works of Lichtenstein, Warhol and Haring, to a live rock audience: a production experience never quite seen before. Filmed at the Foro Sol Autodromo in Mexico City on December 3, 1997, PopMart Live from Mexico City was directed by David Mallet and first released on video the following year. Both the video and audio have been digitally remastered and the DVD includes a brand new 5.1 surround mix in DTS and Dolby Digital of the concert.

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