The Song Remains the Same achieves what few other concert films have: a balanced, accurate display of a band's musical accomplishments.

| Mar 8, 2025

Unfortunately the total effect ends up as a kind of torture chamber in which small rodents might die and people, not inured to Led Zeppelin, wonder if they can stand it without permanent damage to their eardrums.

| Mar 3, 2025

For Led Zep fans, this is all very interesting. For the general public, however, what's the point? The filmmaker's motives, also are never consistent.

| Feb 19, 2025

A colorful spirit of excess permeates the Zeppelin film.

| Feb 19, 2025

A blend of live concert footage by Led Zeppelin and backstage glimpses of the group and fantasy sequences illustrating some of their songs, it is what is sounds like -- a hodgepodge.

| Original Score: D+ | Feb 19, 2025

There's a vaguely creative edge (and a bit of sadistic overkill) to all this stuff, as sensually photographed through cheesecloth and smoke by Ernie Day, which sets "The Song Remains the Same" one notch above the run-of-the-mill concert film.

| Feb 19, 2025

The music is pure Led Zeppelin, a feast for the fans, but something less for the moviegoer who thought he might be in for some insight, along with the sound and light.

| Feb 19, 2025

"The Song Remains the Same" is a hopelessly pretentious piece of trash.

| Original Score: 0/4 | Feb 19, 2025

Despite some artsy cinematic touches the film does little more than try to capture on film whatever magic may be present at a Led Zeppelin concert.

| Original Score: 2/4 | Feb 19, 2025

"The Song Remains the Same" seems pointless and without catharsis.

| Feb 19, 2025

"The Song Remains the Sam" is not a great film, but it is a good rock film, one of the best of its kind.

| Feb 19, 2025

"The Song Remains the Same" is neither sociologically interesting or theatrically potent.

| Feb 19, 2025

The on-stage performance, shot at Madison Square Garden in New York, is explosive and emotive, chronicling the sweaty involvement of a two-hour wing-ding before thousands of loyal supporters.

| Feb 19, 2025

Rock films and movies about rock personalities need not be the form of torture this one is.

| Feb 19, 2025

Ultimately, we learn little more about the group as people from the movie than we do from their records, which isn't much. And for all its fascinating moments, the movie is only slightly more interesting than a live concert.

| Feb 19, 2025

Some of the fantasies show vague lapses of taste... most of the going is harmless enough to the mind and eyes -- though your eardrums may suffer.

| Feb 19, 2025

"The Song Remains the Same," is partly a rock concert, partly a documentary, partly a fantasy and partly a lot of the kind of of stuff you spread on your garden to help the plants grow.

| Feb 19, 2025

The fantasy sequences seem to left-overs from a past Neil Young epic and were just as dull as the original.

| Feb 19, 2025

Singer Robert Plant and guitarist Jimmy Page come across very well, and the film is only slightly spoiled by meaningless fantasy sequences involving each of the four-man band.

| Feb 19, 2025

It is very loud, very immediate and very exciting.

| Feb 19, 2025