It Might Get Loud

It Might Get Loud is a marvellous rock doc that manages to be wistful, tasty, and jam-kicking at the same time. In a high summit of electric-guitar fetishism, director Davis Guggenheim unites – and tells the separate stories of – three six-string wizards: Jimmy Page, the virtuoso fuzz-box classicist of Led Zeppelin, who is now an elegant moon-faced gentleman; The Edge, U2’s mad scientist of sonic jangle, who shows you some of his tricks; and Jack White, the low-tech hell-raiser of the White Stripes, here to pay homage and also to represent, you know, the kids. The result is pure candy for the guitar hero in all of us. – Owen Glieberman, Entertainment Weekly If you are an avid air guitarist, you might want to spend some time checking out the real deal. It Might Get Loud is an affectionate documentary by Davis Guggenheim (An Inconvenient Truth) featuring three master electric guitarists: Jimmy Page of Led Zeppelin, The Edge of U2, and Jack White of The White Stripes. Page talks about rebelling against the sticky 1960s pop sound, White rhapsodizes about his love for the rawness of the great bluesman Son House, and The Edge uncovers the original four-track rehearsals of ‘Where The Streets Have No Name’. Each man has his own distinctive style, and yet when they jam together it sounds like the most natural thing in the world. – Peter Rainer, The Christian Science Monitor