Hannah Montana and Miley Cyrus Miley Cyrus 2009 DVD Top-quality

The Hannah Montana & Miley Cyrus: Best of Both Worlds live concert was a sold-out sensation everywhere it played, and this concert DVD is the next best thing to being there for all the fans that couldn’t attend the concert in person. The movie opens with Miley Cyrus backstage in make-up and hair, warming up with vocal exercises, then cuts to Hannah Montana (her alter ego)’s performance of Rock Star, and then back in time to four weeks before her performance when concert rehearsals were just beginning. It runs like a backstage special feature for a while, following Hannah Montana through coaching, choreography scenes with Kenny Ortega, and rehearsal sessions. Then it’s back to concert footage from opening night in St. Louis and all along the tour, seasoned here and there with some fun looks at the concerts’ special effects, quick costume changes, other logistical challenges (Hannah gets dropped during a routine early in the tour), and lots of shots of the enthusiastic, mostly female, ‘tween audiences. The sound is adequate, but fails to replicate the live concert experience (the plus side is that your ears won’t be ringing for hours after the performance). Hannah Montana’s performance includes Rock Star, Life’s What You Make It, Just Like You, Nobody’s Perfect, and We Got the Party. The Jonas Brothers perform When You Look Me In the Eyes and Year 3000, and then Miley hits the stage with Start All Over, I Got Nerve, I Miss You (which Miley wrote for her Granddad), Going Away, GNO: Girl’s Night Out, and The Best of Both Worlds. This concert presentation truly is the “best of both worlds”, with easy availability and minimal expense. Better yet is the message that girls can do anything they want if they put their minds and hearts to it. (Ages 7 and older)