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Air Guitar Nation
Documentary - 2006
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If your bedroom has become too small a stage for your air guitar antics, take inspiration from the competitors featured here as they battle their way from the inaugural U.S. Air Guitar Championship to the world championship in Oulu, Finland. Along the way, filmmaker Alexandra Lipsitz documents the fierce rivalries that develop as would-be rock legends vie for top honors in technical accuracy, stage presence and "airness."

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Rated:
R
Runtime:
81 min
Release date:
9 Mar 2006
Languages:
English
Budget:
$0
Revenue:
$0
Awards:
3 wins

Top Critics Reviews

fresh:
A nuts-and-bolts document of the annual Air Guitar World Championships which take place in the rural outpost of Oulu in Finland.
– David Jenkins,
Time Out,
9 Nov 2007
rotten:
Sure, there is an infectious goofiness in watching a grown man in a red robe and Hello Kitty breastplate rock out on an imaginary ax. But the gag is spread pretty thin.
– John Monaghan,
Detroit Free Press,
22 Jun 2007
rotten:
The film's action footage -- lots of men and women thrashing around with a theoretical Fender in hand -- gets pretty tedious after a while. There is only so much self-inflicted embarrassment one can bear watching.
– Tom Keogh,
Seattle Times,
22 May 2007
fresh:
In this pitch-perfect documentary about the very real rise of air guitar competition in the United States, and two of its top performers, stony thoughts will arise as to whether one is suddenly trapped inside a satire that got wrapped in a reality.
– Justin Berton,
San Francisco Chronicle,
11 May 2007
rotten:
It's a limited movie, from the musical palette the performers choose, to the number of players the movie spends time with.
– Roger Moore,
Orlando Sentinel,
4 May 2007
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