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Michael Phillips, Chicago Tribune: Why isn't the film better? Guggenheim doesn't seem to have prodded his subjects in any interesting directions. Read more
Ted Fry, Seattle Times: It's as enchanting to watch them listening to each other as it is for us to listen to all three. Read more
Sam Adams, AV Club: The resulting jam session ought to be a music geek's wet dream, but there isn't enough common ground to produce more than a few flashes of inspiration. Read more
Wesley Morris, Boston Globe: This is not a history of rock 'n' roll guitar. It's a movie-fantasy version of the "favorite music" section on Guggenheim's Facebook page. Read more
Betsy Sharkey, Los Angeles Times: The film culminates as the three finally come together on an empty soundstage in Hollywood for a conversation and a raucous jam session that is remarkable for its intimacy and its passion. Read more
J. R. Jones, Chicago Reader: Guitar heroes, real or imaginary, will think they've died and gone to heaven. Read more
Peter Rainer, Christian Science Monitor: Each man has his own distinctive style, and yet when they jam together it sounds like the most natural thing in the world. Read more
Ricardo Baca, Denver Post: While that sounds like a fantasy for rock aficionados, the scenes lack dramatic tension or cinematic enlightenment. It just kind of happens, and then the all-star jam fades to black, leaving few remnants of the filmmakers' initial intentions. Read more
Adam Graham, Detroit News: For guitar geeks, the sight of Page, Edge and White together in one room will be enough. Others, however, can't help but wish it might have gotten a little louder. Read more
Owen Gleiberman, Entertainment Weekly: It Might Get Loud is a marvelous rock doc that manages to be wistful, tasty, and jam-kicking at the same time. Read more
Rene Rodriguez, Miami Herald: It does make you want to pull out some old records and listen with a new appreciation for certain sounds you once might have taken for granted. Read more
Stephen Whitty, Newark Star-Ledger: Even longtime music fans are bound to pick up a fresh fact or two. But if you really want to enjoy this music, close your door, crank up a CD and whip out that air guitar. Read more
Elizabeth Weitzman, New York Daily News: What Guggenheim really does is make the case that each man deserves his own movie; this one feels like an especially well-produced VH1 special. Read more
Kyle Smith, New York Post: For rock fans, hearing many Led Zeppelin and U2 classics on a theater sound system is worth the price of a ticket. Read more
Roger Moore, Orlando Sentinel: Rock fans and Guitar Heroes in the making will get a charge out of visiting where the happy accidents that put guitars into each man's hand happened. And the playing isn't bad, either. Loud. But good. Read more
Carrie Rickey, Philadelphia Inquirer: Rockers out there, it's time to turn off Guitar Hero and turn on to the heroes of guitar in It Might Get Loud, a six-string "summit" featuring virtuosos of the '60s, '80s, and aughts. Read more
Peter Travers, Rolling Stone: Does this sound like rock heaven? It is. Read more
Mick LaSalle, San Francisco Chronicle: No self-respecting Led Zeppelin fan could hate a movie that contains extended interviews with Jimmy Page. But that can't change the fact that It Might Get Loud is an empty exercise. Read more
Kevin C. Johnson, St. Louis Post-Dispatch: It Might Get Loud is never dry, never too technical, boasts fantastic concert footage -- and the soundtrack is killer. Read more
Liam Lacey, Globe and Mail: The trouble is, once you get past the historical information and chummy interviews, you have to put up with the inevitable risk of any ad-hoc jam session: It Might Get Boring. Read more
Greg Quill, Toronto Star: Davis Guggenheim's contrived documentary is a largely unrewarding essay on the mystique of the ubiquitous electric guitar... Read more
Derek Adams, Time Out: The film might have benefited from a trim and a more linear approach, but mostly it fulfils its role as an illuminating homage to both the protagonists involved and, above all, the guitar as popular music's most timeless icon. Read more
Claudia Puig, USA Today: It's a pleasure to watch these men perform. These are real-life guitar heroes. But it would have been a treat to see more of them talking shop. Read more
Robert Wilonsky, Village Voice: Marketed as a guitar summit between The Edge, Jimmy Page, and Jack White, Davis Guggenheim's affectionate, intermittently insightful behind-the-music doc is more electric triptych than meeting of the minds. Read more