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It Might Get Loud

2008 · 1h 37m · PG Documentary, Music
Directed by Davis Guggenheim

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A documentary on the electric guitar from the point of view of three significant rock musicians: the Edge, Jimmy Page and Jack White.

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All reviews
79%
Tomatometer
Fresh

The film might have benefited from a trim and a more linear approach, but mostly it fulfils its role as an illuminating homage to both the protagonists involved and, above all, the guitar as popular music's most timeless icon.

Derek Adams, Time Out
Fresh

Guitar heroes, real or imaginary, will think they've died and gone to heaven.

J. R. Jones, Chicago Reader
Rotten

The trouble is, once you get past the historical information and chummy interviews, you have to put up with the inevitable risk of any ad-hoc jam session: It Might Get Boring.

Liam Lacey, Globe and Mail
Rotten

Davis Guggenheim's contrived documentary is a largely unrewarding essay on the mystique of the ubiquitous electric guitar...

Greg Quill, Toronto Star
Fresh

Rock fans and Guitar Heroes in the making will get a charge out of visiting where the happy accidents that put guitars into each man's hand happened. And the playing isn't bad, either. Loud. But good.

Roger Moore, Orlando Sentinel

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