Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #12337 in DVD
• Released on: 2006-11-13
• Rating: Exempt
• Aspect ratio: 1.77:1
• Format: PAL
• Original language: English
• Subtitled in: German, English, Dutch, Italian, Spanish, Portuguese, French
• Number of discs: 1
• Running time: 140 minutes

Synopsis
Rock legend and former Beatle Paul McCartney performs hits old and new on the Californian leg of his sold-out 2005 U.S. tour. Filmed on state-of-the-art high definition cameras and given an expansive 5.1 digital surround sound mix, this feature-length concert is the closest thing you'll experience to actually being there. Not content with entertaining audiences on terra firma, Paul serenaded the astronauts aboard the international space station with his rendition of 'English Tea' via satellite link-up.

Customer Reviews

Macca is great, this DVD is bad!
There are a few good things about this dvd. First of all, it has beatiful sound and it's a pleasure to really be able to feel that you are at the concert when listening to it.
Another positive thing is, that it's the first time songs such as I'll follow the sun, For no one, I will, and a few others are recorded on a live dvd with Macca. These songs sounds great, and it's nice to hear them performed by the man himself!
However, and that's a MAJOR however, there are a lot of negatives about this dvd.
First of all, the whole music thing is shadowed by the fact that this is called a documentary!! But what is the documentary? Well, all there is, are people talking inbetween(an most annoying during) songs about how great Macca is, and how much he means to them. I love this mans music and I do agree that he is a genius, but I want his music, not a dvd with people telling me stuff I know(that he is a genius).
For instance, Hey Jude is ruined by the fact, that in order to see it(or that is the last minute of it) you have to see a portrait of an American McCartney-possesed family. Why???
Oh yeah, and with the songs!! I know McCartney send out a dvd only 3 years ago with a lot of the major songs, but now with a lot better sound, and knowing that he did in fact play them on this tour, songs such as Jet, Long & Winding road, Blackbird, Band on the run, Back in the U.S.S.R., Let it be(apart form about 30 seconds) and Live & let die is sadly missing from this dvd.

Two and a half stars.
If you've already got the last two Paul McCartney "concert films" (Back In The US and Red Square) then there is really nothing different here. Obviously Paul is a great performer, great songwriter and his fans all adore him...we all know this by now. I just wish that Paul would let the music do the talking these days and present a more straight ahead representation of the gigs. Instead the songs are again broken up by excessive crowd reaction shots and interviews. It is quite disorientating to watch with the many cutaways and not in a good way. I would have thought that having released 3 concert DVDs in the past 3 years that he would try a different approach this time. There is enough capacity on DVDs to present a straight concert and have the documentary aspects as extras. You could also have alternate camera angles, commentaries etc. But again we get the same kind of deal as before. I would sooner watch a bootleg DVD shot from the crowd as it has more of a raw live feel than what is on 'The Space Between Us'. I'm sure the 5.1 sound mix will sound great, but I have no means to play that yet.

I'm a big fan of Paul and hate to moan but I really think that an opportunity to change things up was missed here.

Instead of this it would have been nice to have an official DVD collection of Paul's promo videos in time for Christmas

Huge dissapointment.
Firstly i LOVE Macca...but this is appalling. It looks like it was edited by Barney the dinosaur.Its full of Fat middle aged americans..Goofy teens with braces..three generation families creating artwork!! cmon. I wanna see Macca preform his songs not Bill clinton waffling about how amazing a person Paul is. I mean Pauls kinda blowing his Trumpet Big Time..(sorry Paul). The yanks will love this...we wont.