Olivia Rodrigo: GUTS World Tour

I have very little experience with concert movies like this. But I enjoy the raw emotion that Olivia Rodrigo puts into her music and am impressed by her ability to sell out stadiums worldwide at 21 years old. So, I gave this GUTS World Tour concert doc a watch. I generally enjoyed the experience, with one nitpick that I'm simply not sure is unique to this sort of genre or not.

For a very basic overview, this concert is basically exactly what it says in the title--portraying the Los Angeles stop of Rodrigo's GUTS world tour, where she plays songs from that album and the previous SOUR record.

This is quite the high-octane, well-produced performance, with Rodrigo shifting effortlessly between her super high-energy songs and her piano/vocal ballads. Her ability to write these songs and take them on the road without a drop in quality is truly amazing--at any age, but especially 21!

That being said, I had one quibble with the entire production, that being the sound mix. I'm not sure if this is normal for these kinds of concert docs, but if you enjoy hearing fans screaming the songs instead of Olivia singing them you'll be just fine. Personally, I wish the sound mix would have shifted back and forth a bit more. Instead, it is very much a "put you in the crowd" experience as opposed to hearing Rodrigo's vocals.

Overall, though, I enjoyed this Netflix production even with my singular qualm about the audio choices. An Olivia Rodrigo concert is never dull, that is for sure.

Let me set the record straight, I only watched this movie because Olivia Rodrigo was apart of Disney Channel and she was on High School Musical: The Musical: The Series. With that being said I actually really liked this concert documentary movie.

Positives for Olivia Rodrigo: GUTS World Tour (2024): I actually liked watching and listening to this music concert and I'm someone who doesn't really attend any music concerts. As someone who doesn't really listen to her music, I will say that Olivia Rodrigo has an amazing singing voice.

Negatives for Olivia Rodrigo: GUTS World Tour (2024): Like I said before I'm not someone who attends music concerts with the exception of ELO back in 2018. This is also a movie that I will only see as a one time thing.

Overall, Olivia Rodrigo: GUTS World Tour (2024) was a fun experience and I would highly recommend it to fans of Olivia Rodrigo. Thankfully after watching this movie, Rodrigo has hunted a possible return to acting and I'll be keeping my eye on her.

Olivia Rodrigo is a great performer who delivers exactly what you want from an artist. There's also a wonderful live band and the overall vibe is that of a rock concert. Alongside upbeat rock songs there's also an acoustic section and some stunning ballads. Olivia delivers excellent live vocals throughout that showcase her ability to really convey authentic emotion and feeling, something that's becoming increasingly rare in an age of AI music and loud backing tracks. It's refreshing to hear an artist truly sing from the heart, and even better when they're songs she's written herself.

I have to say that the GUTS World Tour movie is genuinely one of the best concert films I've watched in terms of making you actually feel like you're at the concert. I would really recommend just turning off the lights and turning up the volume while watching, and then just escaping into the GUTS tour experience.

You do hear the audience singing along at moments, but that's part of what makes you actually feel like you're there in person. I found myself singing along too. I thought songs like Logical and Making The Bed were also particularly beautifully shot, and there's a specific part that's so cinematic.

I can certainly see why critics have continually praised Olivia and the GUTS World Tour and I do think it translates well on screen. It's overall a very enjoyable concert film that's well worth watching (and re-watching).

This is a great Live Concert film! I wasn't able to go and loved seeing this film on Netflix. It shows the amazing effort and talent that went into one of the greatest albums of the decade and displays Olivia's amazing singing skills and performing skills. Her band and dancers are also extremely great. I cant wait to see her play and sell out larger venues like music festivals and large world stadiums.

Olivia has tremendous great things coming for her and it will only get better and better for her! I see more masterpiece music, films, involvement with Disney, and enormous World Tours that are equal or better than Eras tour in the future! She is a living Legend and will be one of the greatest female singers of All Time.

I had high hopes for this concert movie, especially with Olivia Rodrigo being such a promising young artist on her second album. Unfortunately, I found it to be quite disappointing, largely due to the sound mixing. It feels like the production was more focused on showcasing the hysteria of her fans than highlighting her performance.

Throughout the film, the audience's screams overpower the music. Her voice is mixed so low that it's almost impossible to enjoy her singing, even after trying every equalization setting available. This issue completely undermines the experience-after all, this is a concert movie, where the music should be the star. Instead, I found myself watching a visual spectacle with subpar audio.

What makes this even more frustrating is that Olivia can sing, and from the faint glimpses of her voice buried under the crowd noise, she sounds great. It's baffling that the sound design obscures her talent. If this were an attempt to mask a lack of vocal ability, it might make sense-but that's not the case here.

Ultimately, I don't know if I'll even make it through to the end. The audio quality is just that bad. For a project meant to celebrate a musical artist, this felt like a major missed opportunity.