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Kylie Minogue-Fever 02

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4 star:		(12)
3 star:		(8)
2 star:		(4)
1 star:		(4)

 

 

This concert DVD is amazing. I love putting it on even when I am just working around the house. Buying this DVD made me want to see Kylie live in concert someday and I have now completed that goal by seeing her on her KylieX2008 tour. Buy this DVD and you won't be disappointed.

The "Live in Sydney" DVD remains one of my all-time favorite concerts, and gets regular play. The "Live in Manchester" DVD has had its one and only...and a fast-forward one at that. After an interesting opening 2 minutes, I found the rest (save for Chapter 10) difficult to watch. The "let's look at everything from all angles at the same time" editing was tiresome and visually nauseating, and made the uninspired and repetitive choreography impossible to watch (perhaps a blessing in disguise). The dancers (costume, hair, and make-up included) belonged on the set of "Night of the Living Dead"...not a Kylie concert. I've never seen such an ill-conceived and poorly executed effort of this magnitude. A lot of talented people were involved in producing this dud. Someone should have had the guts to speak-up. I'll burn the edited audio to CD and toss the disc. 1 star is generous...this one is a black hole.

Very stylish, impressively coreographed, well performed, pretty much what you'd expect from someone of Kylie's tenure and stature. My favorite CD has always been "Kylie Minogue," and the extended performance of that album's "Confide In Me" is the show-stopper here. Quite a few people discovered (or re-discovered, after "Locomotion") her music with the "Fever" CD, but the value of a concert DVD such as this (and "Kylie Live In Sydney") is that it exposes the hidden gems in her catalogue. She's frequently dismissed as being "lightweight," but this is one entertaining and creative effort that will stand up to repeated viewings.

It was good fun to watch only in the aspect that it is entertainment value for the feeble-minded, but most of all there's no getting away from the fact that some people would buy this DVD for the purpose of having a good chuckle.
To see Ms Minogue desperately hop on trends and fill up her show with the latest technology is funny, but it doesn't distract from the fact that she cannot sing, cannot dance and has nothing much else to offer musically, but that doesn't really matter. Nevermind that it was hilariously ludicrous in parts, for example, Ms Minogue is lowered to the stage as some "cyborg" is like a comedy sketch in itself and Kylie tries to "rap" just like Eminem but in a juvenile manner. So it works unintentionally where it's not really supposed to, although I'm sure its the reaction Ms Minogue doesn't really want or expect, but it would be tragic if anyone took this show seriously, the main aim is to "have fun" and never to question anything that Kylie does.

The only real criticisms I have is that theres too much going on visually, the screen projections are just too much and there's not enough real substance to the show, it seems uneven. Like some bits are good, and somewhere in the middle its average and there's some toe curlingly embarrasing and cringeworthy moments added in there for good measure too, but what does one expect?? this is Ms Minogue afterall, you aren't going to get much and shouldn't expect anything on the level of genius.

The other criticism I have is that it takes too much from Madonna's 2001 Drowned World Tour, it's very obvious that Ms Minogue has studied this show rather in-depthly and has used ideas to fill up her own show, for example the "segment" of Kylie up on a video screen as a Geisha during a costume change is far too simular to Madonna's segment, it seems too much of a coincedence if Kylie didn't copy, but this is where she usually falls down, in the past she's been accused one too many times of copying, she should be aware of this accusation, it just makes her look unoriginal and could work against her. Kylie needs to bring something of her own to the table and pioneer her own ideas rather than relying on others' ideas to form her own shows going the tried and tested route isn't always considered an admirable move.

Kylie's Fever is a techno departure from her amazing Sydney show (on DVD). In the Sydney show, Kylie was Kylie. The Fever show adds an extra layer of gloss, technology, and production values that dwarf Kylie, and get between her and the audience. (Show planners call the sets "minimalist"... in a way that Albert Speer architecture was "minimalist"). Fever is not unlike when Bob Dylan went electric to go to a new level... or when San Francisco mime Jacques Enzebachs added narration to his miming ("I'm pulling a rope..."). Dylan was booed. And Jaques' patrons started *taking* coins from his hat.... The POINT is that Kylie and her team have tried to do too much with Fever. Kylie moves robotically and poses Stepford style; making the super-warm performer come off brrrr cold. Sort of... okay, colder than her normal super-warm. Get Live in Sydney first. Then get Fever too, as it *is* Kylie. Some high points: Her costumes, the b-boy and Keith Haring inspired hip hop ("Slim Lady") number... sort of a like super-cute Debbie Harry from "Rapture." And... a big plus -- Kylie looks better than ever. Five stars against most any other dvd. This one just doesn't measure up to the high standards set by Sydney.

I am a great fan of Kylie's, however, don't waste your time or money on her "Fever 2002" DVD. Kylie's singing is great, however, her dancers were amateurish at best, Kylie did little to no dancing herself. She is in desperate need of an outstanding choreographer for herself and her dancers. There was absolutely no entertainment value in this concert, I was greatly disappointed and frankly bored. When compared to outstanding entertainers in concert, i.e. Madonna, Shakira, Janet Jackson, Kylie rated down at the very bottom on this one. Save your time and money. Let hope she makes great strides in any of her future concerts.

I am a new fan of Kylie Minogue and knew nothing about her music except the "Can't Get you Out of My Head" and "Love At First Sight" videos which I loved, and so I bought this.

This DVD also contains a great full-length documentary about the making of this tour which I enjoyed just as much as the concert. Watching it BEFORE watching the concert really helped me to understand what they were trying to do with this concert more, and appreciate all the hard work and creativity that went into it.

The elborately choreographed and costumed show with its awesome set and futuristic projections really reminded me of the kind of spectaculars that pop stars in Asia put on, and I felt that THIS was the kind of show I had always imagined people would be watching in the "distant future" of the year 2002.

But I had two main problems with this concert. The first was the music. My favourite songs here were "Burning Up", "Can't Get You Out of My Head" (which I truly can't get out of my head), "Love at First Sight", and the concert's opening song "Come into My World" (the way she made her entrance was sooo cool!) But unfortunately a lot of the stuff here just seemed to be quite run-of-the-mill and unremarkable pop tunes.

Kylie deserves better than this. She needs to get some better songwriters working for her, and live up to the promise shown in "Can't Get You Out of My Head" and get waaaay more funkae~, baby. She needs to go further in the direction of say, Madonna or Janet Jackson and get further away from the direction of Olivia Newton-John where she seems to be at now. I know she's got it in her. I want to see her really let loose!

My second problem with the show was the lack of Kylie actually dancing. Yeah she does a bit of hip wiggling and strutting back and forth, but her hottest dance songs would have been so much better if she was actually DANCING. Although it's been mentioned in other reviews that the reason for her not dancing much is that she uses all her energy in actually singing rather than just lip-synching like so many other of today's less honest stars, maybe she could insert some instrumental breaks into her songs where she could funk it up and show us what she can do on the dance floor. And since Paula Abdul doesn't seem to have been doing much for like the past decade now, I think she'd be the perfect person to teach Kylie a few moves and help her realize her full potential. -- Kylie is good now, but I think she can still be so much better!

True, they did try to funk things up a bit here on "Cowboy Style", but the unattractive dancers were a real turn-off and everything seemed kind of over-choreographed and never really got co~okin' (a general problem with the whole concert actually). And as mentioned in some other reviews, the dancers here are um, highly Rainbow flag-friendly shall we say (the choreographer seems to enjoy keeping the ugly male dancers in drag throughout much of the concert) Only the presence of the luscious Ms. Minogue could offset the "hurl factor" in certain parts of the concert for me.

But I did love the various costumes and personas they created for Kylie, like lingeree-clad pixie disco princess Kylie, dominatrix Kylie, funky Kylie from the very ending (which is actually what I was expecting much more of this concert to be like), and my ultimate favourite of all, futuristic space cyborg princess Kylie from the very beginning of the concert. God she was gorgeous!

In short, I am ready to worship at the feet of this pop goddess for the new millenium, who I feel is the most striking and special thing to hit the pop scene since Blondie's Deborah Harry. -- But first she's got to do a wee~ bit more homework for me.

This is the best concert in Dvd that i whatched in my life!, cause all was perfect, kylie is so profesional, my favorite and definitive best performance was "confide in me", kylie looks like a cop and the acrobat was amazing, and how forget the clasic 1-555-CONFIDE, if you like kylie, you must have this dvd cause also includes the "feel the fever" documentary that cover all pre show and aftershow party, this dvd blind me, was a exciting experience to me, and i bet to you too!

I was never a fan of Kylie Minogue. I thought she was just another pop singer who uses electronic enhancements to compensate for a lack of talent. That is, until I saw this DVD. I now see that my prior perception was completely wrong. Kylie is by far one of the best pop singers out there now. She has a great energy, great vocals, great songs, great themes/costumes (I love the scifi/robot theme at the beginning), great lighting. All in all, this was a great concert DVD. If you like pop music, and even if you've never really heard of or given Ms. Minogue a chance before, I highly suggest checking it out. She may just make you a fan as she did me.

This dvd concert is very good but I liked her "Live in Sydney" better as the songs were better. I gave that one 5 stars.