Taking Woodstock (DVD) Reviews

Taking Woodstock is a film that you really don't need to waste your time watching. It is obviously about what the title suggests, however there is nothing new to be learned from this film. I had expectations of some really great drama and footage from the famous music festival and I was sorely let down. The main character is called Elliot ...  Read the complete review

Taking Woodstock is a super little comedy and while I have no personal experience of the event and very little knowledge of the musical festival I did find the subject matter fascinating and there are some good laughs to be had from this film. The film is directed by Ange Lee and it tells the story of Elliot Tiber who was instrumental ...  Read the complete review

Ask me which decade I'd like to have lived in during the 20th century, and the answer would undoubtedly be the 60's. The assassination of Kennedy, the Vietnam War, champion Muhammad Ali being deposed only for his conscientious objection, Che Guevara's rise and fall as communism's international revolutionary, the unbeatable Beatles, England winning ...  Read the complete review

Most of what Ang Lee's new film, Taking Woodstock, sets out to do it does so very well. The problem, however, is what it doesn't wish to accomplish. There is no desire in this story to be compelling, exciting, or something new and fresh. All of the iconic images and symbols we associate with Woodstock 1969 are here front and centre . Armed with a ...  Read the complete review

Ang Lee is as eclectic a filmmaker as you're likely to find these days; he's written superb family dramas, such as The Ice Storm, Chinese martial arts epics such as Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon, superhero films like Hulk, and even the gay drama Brokeback Mountain. Here, he tackles another beast altogether, a stoner movie of another variety, in ...  Read the complete review

I really enjoyed this comedy as it was a little different to the normal run of the mill comedy. Directed by Ange Lee it has a largely unknown cast, well they were unknown to me, and tells the story of Elliot Tiber who played a role in setting up the Woodstock music festival in the sixties. The story unfolds as Elliot returns home to ...  Read the complete review

* Film Only* As a certain observant Dooyoo member kindly pointed out in one of his reviews the other day that I was around in the 60s I thought it only fitting that I should write a review of Ang Lee's new and engaging film, Taking Woodstock, and tell you what it is all about because I am sure a lot of Dooyoo readers won't be able to ...  Read the complete review