Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #14389 in VHS
• Released on: 1998-11-02
• Rating: Exempt
• Number of discs: 1
• Formats: HiFi Sound, PAL
• Original language: English
• Number of tapes: 1
• Running time: 130 minutes

Synopsis
Featuring the U2 Popmart concert which toured 82 cities over fourteen months. Tracks include: 'With Or Without You', 'Bloody Sunday' and 'Pride (In The Name Of Love)'.

Customer Reviews

U2 Lit Up and stripped Down In A Lemon
U2 have a great vision for video. They have embraced the media. This is a great concert film. From the familiar black and white begining to the technicolour mirrorball flashing round the stadium and from the acoustic version of Staring at the Sun to the fully blown opener of a rock funadellic song of Mofo this has it all.
It is (as most U2 shows are) a significant night as far as the U2 camp is concerned, they have just had word that Michael Hutchins has just died, a close friend of the band and a great singer. All I want is you becomes Never tear us apart and emotion is all over the place, Bono visibily moved by his own lyrics.
The hits are also here, but the whole show only makes sense when we see the triple wammy of Bullet the Blue Sky, Please and Where the Streets... it is simply U2 at their prime and it is simply breath taking. The music and the band and the screen all fight for attention and sometimes its hard to decide who will win.
Low points are few, but you have to question the inclusion of a weak Velvet Dress and With or Without You.
Discotheque and the comming out of the Lemon is a great spinal tap moment in their career, and I think they will never regret doing it, it was what it was supposed to be, kitsch, silly and funny, but because it's U2 it worked.

A real Music Video, if you looking for Britney here put your head in the ground, because this is how it should sound and look.

JB, Belfast

The best U2 concert DVD package ever...
I won't say it's the best U2 concert on film ever, but I personally think it's as good as any other. Just seeing the extravagance of Popmart again is a real joy. I don't think we will see it's like ever again. I mean, the amazing mirrorball lemon, the Mc D's influenced arch and that huge video wall with it's Roy Lichtenstein animations. Truly stunning. The 'Pop' album may be flawed, but the tour and this era of U2 wasn't the lemon that some say it was. History will be kind I think, and this DVD records a band at their most playful and musically inventive.

The band are clearly having a blast in the OTT world they have created on stage. It's almost as if in response to those po-faced fans/journo's that were trying to make U2 feel ashamed of the Pop album and the subsequent tour the band actually revel in it all, and make the most of what they had created - two fingers up to the critics and all that....

The main concert has been cleaned up visually and sonically to as good a standard as you can expect for a 1997 filmed show. It really looks/sounds great for those with nice A/V gear.

But it's the bonus DVD (and the packaging) that shine for me. Some U2 2-disc sets have disappointed (Vertigo, Chicaco anyone..). But not here. The band and the exec produced Tara Mullen (Larry's sis) have clearly put a lot of love and attention in to the whole package, in particular the bonus disc which has lots of great stuff on it. You can feast yourself on as much Popmart as you can handle quite frankly! The Popmart shopping game is cool.. it's like your own personal Generation Game conveyor belt.

The packaging is great too. I mean, in the spirit of Popmart you even get a pop-up The Edge to marvel at ;) Nice.

So all in all a great 2 disc set here. The best yet from Dublins finest. One curiosity though..... When you select in-store security camera content from the bonus disc you get this weird homemade video featuring this couple in Dublin. It's set to music with Karaoke words on screen! What the hell is that all about boys!

***** 5 Stars. Buy it.

Definitely worth a purchase...BUT!!
Had I not seen U2 on their Elevation tour this summer, I would have given this five stars...The Popmart tour got flawed by critics, and fans alike. The talk on the current tour is of how they are playing old tunes like I WILL FOLLOW, PRIDE, SUNDAY BLOODY SUNDAY, & ANGEL OF HARLEM again...Not mentioned when they were uncool old men going all techno-weird, however all these plus many more such as NEW YEARS DAY, WHERE THE STREETS HAVE NO NAME, END OF THE WORLD AND WITH OR WITHOUT YOU are captured on this video.

Popmart in Mexico is a must see Masterpiece, all the songs are played briliantly, MOFO a storming opener, to ONE, an emotional closer...Turn up the volume, order your pizza, and get comfy!If you saw Popmart, you'll smile, if you didn't, prepare to be blown sky high!

The only problem with it I have, is having seen them 4 years on from this gig, I know as you may that they are capable of slightly better. In the end though, I think that Popmart in Mexico, will remain their best concert on video, as visually, nothing else comes close. As for musically, this is U2!This is...POP!