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Jonas Brothers: The 3D Concert Experience
Walt Disney Pictures

Jonas Brothers: The 3D Concert Experience reviews
Critic Score
Metascore: 45 Metascore out of 100
User Score  
0.5 out of 10
based on 14 reviews
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MPAA RATING: Not Rated

Starring Kevin Jonas, Joe Jonas, Nick Jonas, Demi Lovato, and Taylor Swift

The Jonas Brothers head to the big screen—in Disney Digital 3-D™—in a high-energy Walt Disney Pictures rockumentary feature film event from director Bruce Hendricks. The film blends excerpts from the Brothers’ red-hot “Burning Up” concert tour, including guest performances from Demi Lovato and Taylor Swift, with exclusive behind-the-scenes footage, off-the-wall segments, a never-before-heard song, swarming fans and a lot of JB-style humor—giving fans never-before-seen insights into the lives of Kevin, Joe and Nick. (Disney)


GENRE(S): Documentary  |  Musical  
DIRECTED BY: Bruce Hendricks  
RELEASE DATE: Theatrical: February 27, 2009 
RUNNING TIME: minutes, Color 
ORIGIN: USA 

What The Critics Said

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67
Entertainment Weekly Lisa Schwarzbaum
To fully savor Jonas Brothers: The 3D Concert Experience, it's best to watch with an audience overwhelmingly populated by girls and young women.
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63
USA Today Elysa Gardner
The threat may be as illusory as the thrills in Jonas Brothers are contrived. But that won't stop Jonas junkies from enjoying their magical mystery tour.
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60
The Hollywood Reporter Kirk Honeycutt
Certainly their musicianship and onstage professionalism are smooth, though maybe a bit too smooth. There is little spontaneity in anything they do.
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60
New York Daily News Elizabeth Weitzman
Director Bruce Hendricks makes little use of the 3D technology, though the gimmick does distract from the fact that we learn nothing new about the guys. It would have been interesting to hear something of their history, especially given their much-discussed Evangelical background.
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50
Philadelphia Inquirer Carrie Rickey
The 3D effects are of a gimmicky 1956 vintage, with hands thrusting from the screen to give the illusion of reaching out and touching the audience.
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50
The Globe and Mail (Toronto) Catherine Dawson March
Not only does the 3-D format grant you a front row seat at this Jonas Brothers concert, but it puts sweet, sweaty Joe (he's the cute one) practically in your lap. For most JoBro fans, that alone is worth the price of admission.
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50
Rolling Stone Peter Travers
It's no mystery that the target audience for this G-rated bubblegum fantasy is tweens, parents of tweens and the occasional pervert. They'll be so pleased. Anything for the rest of humanity? Not so much.
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50
The New York Times Nathan Lee
Isn't a movie so much as a devotional object, a kind of secular fetish designed to induce rapture.
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50
New York Post Kyle Smith
The film gets one star from me for the admirable brevity of its running time and another for the definite article in its title, seemingly an implicit promise that there will be no sequel.
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40
Variety Peter Debruge
At 76 minutes, the film is nearly twice as long as even the band's most dedicated admirers might need, with weariness setting in around the 40-minute mark.
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40
Village Voice Nick Pinkerton
Even in the context of pop-to-statutorily-rape-virgin-eardrums, it's difficult to rate the Jonases. The tunes are no-stick.
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38
Chicago Tribune Mark Olsen
The film is awkwardly stitched together from candy-gloss arena concert footage and somewhat grimier-looking backstage/limo/hotel room moments. There is no attempt to make it all hang together as an organic whole.
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38
Boston Globe Ty Burr
Its swooping 3-D visuals let fans briefly feel they can touch a group that barely exists behind a wall of beefy security men.
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30
Austin Chronicle Josh Rosenblatt
They are all part of a great American tradition. Hate them if you want to, but you might as well hate gated communities, "The Real World," and the war on terror while you're at it.
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