It’s an especially fun movie from a director and cast who are clearly having a good time allowing themselves to let loose.

I cannot think of one single thing that I would change about this film. The acting is incomparable, the directing deft, and the writing poignantly brilliant.

When a movie has you begging for it to end not even half way through it's pure crap. We've all seen this movie and this characters millions of times, nothing new in it. Don't waste your time.

Great story, amazing characters, superb action, enthralling cinematography. Yes, this is something I am glad I spent money on.

This is a one of the great rock music films of all time, with such a cool history of how it was made that there could easily be enough material out there for a book and a documentary on how the making of it came together.When it came out, movie theater sound systems were pushed to the max to deliver a front row seat for Led Zep fans who could not wait to see it.Whilst most people these days see it on a small screen, it would be a great idea to re-release the a remastered film theatrically.

I wasn't a Led Zeppelin fan before this film, and I still am not, but the first time I saw it, it blew my mind. Forty years on and having heard all the great rock guitarists, including seeing a handful in the flesh, I am not so easily impressed, but this performance by especially the amazing Jimmy Page still has the capacity to impress an old man the way it did a teen. Actually, as it was released on Guy Fawke's Night 1976, I was not quite a teenager, but you get my drift.At school I got into Elton John before anyone else, but the first heavy metal band I sought out was Deep Purple - one of the big three, the other being Black Sabbath. At least a couple of kids in my year were into Zeppelin, but apart from "Whole Lotta Love" - the theme music for "Top Of The Pops" - and of course "Stairway To Heaven", I hadn't really heard them. I went to see the film with a touch of cynicism. Immediately afterwards I bought the double album on tape. For me the outstanding track is the epic "Dazed And Confused", Page making wonderful noises with that bow. I was even more impressed later when I got into Al Stewart and realised he'd played on the "Love Chronicles" album, but here he is in his element, arrogant and nonchalant in equal measure, like a real guitar hero should be. Awesome stuff.

This movie is mostly a chronicle of the probably the greatest rock band EVER in concert together with a combination of some music video type fantasy sequences and a bit of 1970s documentary to boot. It is true that the non-concert fantasy sequences of this movie are on the self-indulgent side, but this film was made during (and contributed to) the "invention" of the idea of the music video. That alone is pretty impressive, and its really inconceivable that one of the first attempts at an entirely original genre would end up being the best ever made. Top that off with the fact that the musicians themselves were in charge of these parts of the movie, its probably a miracle that they didn't ruin the film together.Another thing that makes this movie special for the fan is how notoriously "anti-TV" the band was during its career and thus how much less exposure they had during their prime. Speaking of which, I do NOT agree with a previous reviewer that 1973 was their artistic height, "Physical Graffiti" and "Presence" are both groundbreaking rock albums that took the genre to another level. Obviously their last all new album, "In Through the Out Door" is considered by most to be an experiment that surprised everyone and did not impress many. I just watched the 2007 remastered version film and second disc of extras. Their manager, Peter Grant, explains in a 1976 interview from the BBC why they were not dying to get on TV at every opportunity like most other bands. He says that TV has a tiny picture and crappy sound so it is just not a proper way to experience the band (which I think was both very true and an extremely gutsy opinion) and that is why the avoided TV at every turn. There is also 1973 news footage about the safe deposit box robbery in NY, of course it would've been nice for them to at least put up a one page graphic stating that this crime is still totally unsolved after almost 25 years, something that I think most people would naturally be left wondering at the end of the piece. There is also four additional songs from the 1973 Madison Square Garden shows that were used to create the film on the bonus disc, which again is great for fans but does validate that they did pick the best songs for the movie itself. There is also a (unintentially) funny time capsule extended news piece from Tampa in 1973 about the concert there, its like the inspiration for Ron Burgundy in the movie Anchorman, how did that EVER get saved all this time? The original movie trailer is included as is an audio only piece done in 1976 by Cameron Crowe about the band. I have a pet peeve about Crowe that (for me) he has a special talent to make something that SHOULD be very interesting extremely boring, like his real life experiences with Zeppelin and other bands turned into a sappy lovesick puppy snorefest about some groupie (Almost Famous.) Its a "Zeppelin primer" of a mix of him talking together with song segments through the release of the album "Presence" and the only person who might find it interesting is someone who has no idea of the history of the band.One nice touch is that the menu system is actually pretty cool, someone spent a lot of time making the menus actually somewhat original and interesting, even the song selection menus show three songs at a time each with a completely different layout.The remaster of the movie is very well done, especially the inclusion of both Dolby Digital and DTS remastered soundtracks. They really open up the sound much better than the original soundtrack, although I haven't done extensive scientific side-by-side listening sessions. At proper concert volume it sounds spectacular.I will always wish that I could've seen one of the greatest bands of all time live, but this is definitely as close as you can get now, I will be forever grateful that this movie was made for that reason alone. Final words: original version - AWESOME; 2007 version - turns it up to ELEVEN.

"The Song Remains The Same" seems to get a long of undue praise...mainly from Zeppelin fans who should really know better. True, for years -decades, really- it was the only real visual artifact of LZ's incredible twelve year reign, but you have to keep in mind that even the band practically disowned the project, and regarded it, at best, as a make-work kind of thing after Robert Plant's 1975 car smash that forced them off the road for two years. So "The Song Remains The Same" was as close to an actual Led Zeppelin concert as people were going to get, for the time being.Having said that, the film is really more of an approximation of the Led Zeppelin concert experience (and, for what it's worth, in my not-so-humble opinion, they were the best live band in the business, and, from a musical standpoint, probably the best BAND of all time...I mean, the Beatles and Stones are great, but you can hardly call them bands, in any real sense...look at the Stones; Mick and Keith still treat Ron Wood like a sideman even after thirty years!). I say "approximation" because, as with any sort of "concert" project, "TSRTS" has its share of overdubs and re-takes. If you care, see the "Garden Tapes" website to find out exactly what kind of post-production Jimmy Page carried out on the film (and soundtrack album).As for the performance, as a bit of a live Zeppelin connoisseur, I can honestly say, considering "TSRTS" comes from the end of the '73 tour, that it indeed sounds like the end of the tour. They're tired (stimulants or not), Robert Plant is not in the best of voice (hence the overdubs) and, considering Page was just beginning to dabble in heroin, he is a bit sloppy (to their credit, John Paul Jones and John Bonham, however, rarely EVER seemed to disappoint onstage.) And the songs! For a band that seemed to epitomize the term "self-indulgent", some of these renditions are very tedious to sit through. I mean, c'mon, Jimmy...do we really need half an hour of "Dazed And Confused"? Mind you, the '73 tour was not as bad as, say, the '77 tour (where both "No Quarter" and "Moby Dick" tended to push the half hour mark most every night!) but at the same time the fans couldn't say they weren't getting value for their money. Understand: a garden variety Led Zeppelin concert was the exact opposite of The Beatles being on and off the stage in less time than it takes to actually watch the "Dazed And Confused" performance on "TSRTS". Anything less than three hours was practically unheard of (until the 'back to basics' 1980 European tour...Zeppelin's last, sadly.) And the "fantasy sequences"! I think "TSRTS" gets a lot of its sardonic chuckles from detractors not because of Zeppelin's stage costumes, but because of these sequences, all of which are completely unnecessary and, for me, at least, definitely take away from the "concert experience". If they had followed Pink Floyd's example and had them playing on a back projector whilst performing the songs, that would be one thing, but in the film they are just ridiculous...even John Bonham's "Gentleman Farmer" bit. Though it is mildly amusing to watch Peter Grant and Richard Cole -Zeppelin's management- acting out their perceived personas at the start of the film...the first time you see it.All told, I'd say skip "The Song Remains The Same" and pick up Zeppelin's 2 "DVD" set, which was clearly the labour of love for Jimmy Page that this film was not. Better performances too. "The Song Remains The Same" should be considered "for die-hards only", but I'm sure even the die hards know better...