As a Pearl Jam fan, I was delighted by this movie. I am not sure I would recommend it to other viewers. Still, for its documentary merits, and as a nostalgia piece, this is a fairly good work. It shows some faults, principally in the sound of the interviews. Though, since this is basically an ode to the lost innocence of the festival/live concert scene of the Twentieth century, it is only appropriate that not much was done to the archive footage used. The interviews and video taken from live performances offered a quite superficial, bird's view of the past twenty years of the band's work, occasionally interrupted by more recent interviews. The screening I went to, in a fairly generic multiplex, was very crowded. The emotional response of the audience really showed that this is a PJ fan film for PJ fans.
Review of Pearl Jam Twenty
