Taking Woodstock

Year: 2009

Grade: C+

Country: USA

Director: Lee

Review

does a good job of capturing the time and the event. martin is good as are his parents. as interesting a time and event as the 60s/woodstock were, the film was not equally interesting. the music could have been a million times better and there was a lack of interesting characters. lee directs well given the material, unfortunately i didn’t feel that the screenplay itself did a good enough job of making the story interesting beyond martin’s character and the event itself. the small town politics could have been used to greater effect, the interesting characters (liev schreiber was an attempt at creating an interesting character, but he fell flat) could have been better and a bigger part of the story.

Watched in theater