Katy Perry: Part of Me

I always thought of Katy Perry as sort of the Disney version of Lady Gaga — similarly over the top, but in a really cheery, accessible way. The 3-D concert documentary “Katy Perry: Part of Me” confirms this 100 percent. But it also sheds light on her ...

Candy-coated pop singer Katy Perry reveals the pain behind the lollipops and cupcakes in "Katy Perry: Part of Me," her new concert documentary that looks at her on and off the stage.

It’s a good thing the makers of “Katy Perry: Part of Me” aren’t in politics. They’d probably steal the election.

The concert documentary “Katy Perry: Part of Me” may appear fascinating to anyone who did not realize that pop stars sometimes don’t wear makeup and that people experiencing relationship problems sometimes cry. It may also rivet those who remain...

There’s a scene toward the end of Katy Perry: Part Of Me where the singer is faced with the decision to cancel her show in São Paulo, Brazil, or go onstage in spite of the fact that her short-lived marriage to comedian Russell Brand has just imploded.

Paramount Pictures does not lie: The chipper, no-warts-and-all tour chronicle "Katy Perry: Part of Me" is indeed the 3-D movie music event of the summer. The only one, I believe. Unless Christopher Nolan's "The Dark Knight Rises" turns out to be in...

With "Katy Perry: Part of Me," the enormously successful singer takes her first big stab at crossover success (unless you count her voiceover work in "The Smurfs" and God help you if you do) with her own rockumentary and while there is no mistaking...

Following suit from other similar movies that have come before such as; 'Michael Jackson's This Is It' and 'Justin Bieber: Never Say Never', 'Katy Perry: Part of Me (produced by the same production companies as the other two) is a docu-movie that...

Katy Perry: Part of Me begins with a slew of video confessionals from teenagers, who declare that the pop star's music and lyrics have changed their lives. "She writes songs about real experiences," says one fan. "She tells me it's okay to be me," says...

If the 3-D documentary “Katy Perry: Part of Me” can be trusted, the record-setting pop star is not just a blue-haired doll-person but also a goofy, sweet and spacey-yet-savvy singer whose main concern is turning average people into candy-coated smile...

“Katy Perry: Part of Me” fits neatly into this genre, offering a superstar who could be the viewer’s ultra-cool big sister. Naturally, we have no way of knowing whether Perry is really as down to earth as the movie suggests, despite all the relatives...

Katy Perry: Part of Me is a film on Katy Perry’s rise to stardom. It features some of her past, as well as support from her fans, and concert footages from Katy Perry’s 2011 California Dreams World Tour.

It took over an hour to get her inside the cinema, such was the hysteria that greeted Katy Perry as she arrived to premiere her documentary film Katy Perry: Part of Me 3D in Australia.

In this documentary, directors Dan Cutforth and Jane Lipsitz (“Justin Bieber: Never Say Never”) intercut concert footage from Perry’s “California Dreams” 2011 world tour with backstage scenes, vintage home videos and intimate interviews and...

I'll be honest: Everything I know about Katy Perry, I learned from my 14-year-old. I know that she kissed a girl and she liked it. I know that, baby, she's a firework. And I know that on the scale of current teen obsessions, she ranks somewhere up...

Katy Perry is a perfect pop star. Her songs are infectiously catchy, and she has a fun, playful style that she continually modifies or reinvents. She's more talented and substantive than someone like Ke$ha, but without the off-putting, self-conscious...

Before the advance screening, if you'd asked me if I was a Katy Perry fan I wouldn't have had an answer for you other than, "Uhhhhhhhh." And that's a judgment-free "uhhhhhhhh," by the way. I didn't have anything against her.

Directors Dan Cutforth and Jane Lipsitz follow pop diva Katy Perry on her 2011 California Dreams Tour, with side trips into biography and interviews with Perry and her family, friends and support staff. We get glimpses of Perry’s Pentecostal Christian...

When Lady Gaga flounces onto a concert stage in one of her Marie Antoinette-gone-Clockwork Orange getups, there's never much doubt that you're watching a glorious ''monster.'' The magic of Katy Perry, by contrast, is that she'll show up to perform in a...

I will admittedly confess that I've never been a fan of Katy Perry's incessantly catchy pop music. Maybe it's because I know I'll never again be able to watch the Macy's 4th of July fireworks without hearing her song "Firework" or maybe part of me...

THIS documentary should really be renamed All Of Me, as pop star Katy opens her backstage dressing room, her wardrobe and her heart for the cameras.

It can be difficult justifying the existence of a concert movie based on a pop-music phenomenon. Some can draw in an audience by filming performances that celebrate an artist’s passion for their craft (This Is It) while others blindly beat a dead...

When it was announced that Katy Perry would be bringing out a movie about her tour, I was sceptical. Another concert movie... Would Katy be able to live up to the likes of Justin Bieber and Michael Jackson's movies that did pretty well on the circuit?

Lady Gaga's every arch move seems designed to be parsed by graduate students convinced that mainstream America is scandalized every time someone plays with — all together now — gender. Meanwhile, in sold-out hockey barns across the land, thousands of...

Everyone loves a story about a good girl gone bad – a child of God falling prey to sex, drugs and rock ’n’ roll. Except in Katy Perry’s case, it’s a story of a good girl done good. Her parents – travelling ministers – haven’t disowned her for strutting...

Katy Perry serves as both the main star and producer in her first ever concert film, a genre that has stepped up from arty festivals and one-off theatre showings since Justin Bieber's Never Say Never proved that money can be made from a worldwide...

The 3D concert movie may be a relatively new phenomenon but it already has a template: backstage shenanigans, endless travel, bellowed numbers shot on multiple cameras before legions of baying fans.

Part of Me, which takes its title from one of Perry’s many hummable hit singles, is structured around the performer’s 2011 California Dreams tour, a year-long, 106-city marathon that would have been punishing enough if Perry hadn’t also been trying to...

Shot on a shoestring with a crew of seven, there's quirky delights in this lo-fi road movie.