Before I go into the movie It Might Get Loud - a doc­u­men­ta­tion about the elec­tric gui­tar by cov­er­ing the expe­ri­ences of gui­tarists The Edge, Jack White and Jimmy Page — I would like to say some­thing about doc­u­men­ta­tions first. Just list­ing things is not a doc­u­men­ta­tion — but bring­ing per­son­al­ity into movies and telling sto­ries makes a good documentation.

And this film is a per­fect exam­ple for a niche-based doc­u­men­ta­tion. Every gui­tarist should get this movie. It shows up many gui­tars and songs/styles and inspi­ra­tion as well. Com­bined with these three extra­or­di­nary musi­cians, direc­tor Guggen­heim got it really well to pro­duce a movie which directly speaks to the heart and want of any gui­tar player.
It is also a really good source of inspi­ra­tion. All the sound exam­ples given in the about 94 min­utes are worth to lis­ten to after the film as well and are exam­ples of nearly any kind of musi­cal style — there are exam­ples from clas­sic folk up to punk rock and pop. So if you are a gui­tarist or even an inter­ested musi­cian “It might get loud” should get its place in your DVD shelf.