The Song Remains the Same

Any concert movie featuring a fountain of rainbow-cloured blood issuing from where Peter Grant's just-severed head used to be is a perfectly fine concert movie by me. Saying "does anybody rememba laf-ta?", really high-pitched, should be done with your left hand on your hip, and your right one in the air (as if to indicate "huh?"). Don super tight jeans with Derek Smalls accessory and you're off to the races. The blues jams were goat-farty.

It's pretty sloppy; the concert footage is good but not great and most of the rest doesn't even qualify for that. Do we really need to see the manager chewing out some random guy? Anyone who thinks Led Zeppelin is embarrassing would claw their eyes out during the Plant sequence, but I thought the Bonham one was poignant. Only worth checking out if you're a big fan.

Not very interesting but I do love to watch John Bonham play. That guy was a madman.

Gold standard for the concert film.

great concert footage.......fantasy vignettes and too much peter grant keep it from a perfect rating....recommended.

Music is great, the film isn't.

I really enjoy Led Zeppelin but this is dull

As I recall, it was Peter Grant who called this "the world's most expensive home movie." That about sums things up. All the non-concert footage is indulgent, amateurish hokum (with the possible exception of the Bonham segment). The concert looks a bit strung-out too, but even run-of-the-mill Zep is pretty formidable. Actually, the backstage stuff was rather intriguing, and I found myself thinking that with more of that it could've come off as a F Wiseman doc (you could even call it Concert).

I love Zeppelin, so the concert footage is poorly edited gold. As for the rest: cocaine is a hell of a drug.

Great.

I don't know why everyone complains about the fantasy scenes. For me, they only accentuate the poetic lyrics and mind-bending music of one of the greatest bands of all time! I love Zeppelin!

If you want link a narrative with a Led Zeppelin concert, don't use the somewhat retarded medieval lyrics as the basis for that narrative. Just, incredibly stupid - ruins the concert experience.

I love Led Zeppelin, not long, boring diatribes trying to translate Robert Plant's drug-infused hallucinations into film. Compare this to Pink Floyd's The Wall which accentuates what you are already hearing and is thematically linked to the actual music. This is just things the bad thought seemed cool at the time. Fortunately, the concert footage that is present is pretty solid, if unspectacular Zeppelin in their prime.

The fantasy sequences aren't to everybody's taste, but I quite enjoyed them. Gunfights, heroic duels, Robert Plant as a knight on horseback with his leonine mane streaming in the wind. Yep. Good concert, too.

Cool musical moments, some interesting back stage stuff, pointless fantasy shit.