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KATY PERRY: PART OF ME

 

I am quite sure that for fans, "Katy Perry: Part of Me" is the greatest film ever made. Unfortunately (or fortunately) I am not a fan, and at this point never will be.

 

But then again, this also isn't for my generation. So the best I can do is not go by the music, but by the production and technical aspects of the film. From that point of view, it fails miserably.

 

Directed by Dan Cutforth and Jane Lipsitz (who teamed up to produce 2011's "Justin Bieber: Never Say Never" documentary), the film chronicles a fraction of Perry's meteoric rise to fame from the time she married Russell Brand to present day.

We see her performing lots of songs, getting her various stage persona together, and a few glimpses behind the curtain.

 

We see her disappointment when her husband refuses to meet her while she tours and the shock when she learns that he filed for divorce from her.

 

All is presented in a bubble gum and popcorn theme of a woman 28 years old catering to tween/teen audiences. her productions are circuses and her life becomes one as well.

We also get a glimpse of her wearing down as the tour starts out as fun but quickly becomes a chore as she finds herself having to suck-it-up and for a smile before hitting the stage.

 

But we get little more than that. Only a peek at who she really is, her true background and how a woman with only a marginal singing voice became such a sensation. Sure we know that all glory is fleeting, but the film doesn't even get to how the glory was attained.

 

It seems as though it was thrown together in haste to try to capitalize on her current fame before it burns out; and burn-out seems inevitable. The cinematography lacked the polish of martin Scorsese's "Shine a Light" doc about the Rolling Stones or "George Harrison: Living in the Material World".

 

"Katy Perry: Part of Me" is a slapped together mess with songs that will appeal only to Katy Perry fans and no one else. But I guess that's all that's important for her fans.   -- GEOFF BURTON

 

GEOFF BURTON

 

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