Critic Reviews

• Joe Neumaier, New York Daily News

  It's not easy being Meat Loaf.

• Matt Zoller Seitz, New York Times

  In Search of Paradise portrays Meat Loaf as an obsessive, self-punishing performer, striving in vain to put on a live show that matches the visions in his head.

• Eddie Cockrell, Variety

  At once hagiographic and revealing, backstage docu Meat Loaf: In Search of Paradise follows the never-a-dull-moment rocker during Los Angeles rehearsals and an early 2007 Canadian tour.

• Frank Lovece, Film Journal International

  You can't help but love the Loaf, and that spills over into most anything he does.

• Jennifer Merin, About.com

  At age 59, Meat Loaf launches a worldwide tour for his album, Bat Out Of Hell III, with new stagings of some of his iconic songs. This fabulous rock doc is a first time look at Meat's grueling artistic process. It's amazing.

• Ron Wilkinson, Monsters and Critics

  Watch this film only if you are a die hard Meatloaf fan and have seen everything else already. Best to watch with the sound off and with his Platinum album playing in the background.

• Amy Nicholson, Boxoffice Magazine

  The flick's signature shots are doors closing on Klein's camera. Meat Loaf is busy, he's sick, he's tired, he's in a confidential discussion. The excuses flow forth.

• Diva Velez, TheDivaReview.com

  Meat Loaf: In Search of Paradise never feels egregious or intentionally heart-tugging, but seeing the indomitable performer lying prostrate with physical and emotional exhaustion is not a pretty sight. It is in these moments and Meat Loaf's own wil

• Maitland McDonagh, TV Guide's Movie Guide

  A surprisingly unvarnished picture of the performed emerges despite Klein's uncritical approach.

• Donald J. Levit, ReelTalk Movie Reviews

  Much takes place offstage in 'Meat Loaf,' so there are few seconds wasted on the de rigueur ecstasy of audiences older than rockumentary adolescents.

• Nick Schager, Slant Magazine

  Pure promo fluff.

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