Katy Perry: Part of Me [PG]

In 2011 internationally loved pop star, Katy Perry, embarked upon the largest tour that she had ever done. It was a year filled with triumphs, sacrifices, hard times, and heartbreak. Part Of Me chronicles Katy’s journey around the world on that tour: physically and emotionally. 

I did love Katy Perry for a while a couple of years back, but then I sort of moved on. Now, after seeing this sparkling and bubbly concert film of her life on tour, my love for her is rekindled. My Week With Marilyn really showed us just how globally adored Marilyn Monroe was and this film with all the characters being played themselves, scales those heights of that movie, forcefully conveying just how much the world loves Katy Perry. 

In 2011 internationally loved pop star, Katy Perry, embarked upon the largest tour that she had ever done. It was a year filled with triumphs, sacrifices, hard times, and heartbreak. Part Of Me chronicles Katy’s journey around the world on that tour: physically and emotionally. 

This feature is a biographical documentary about Katy’s life on tour as well as a bit of her back-story and history so much of it is made up of photos and footage of a young Katy Perry as well as one-on-one interviews with herself, her family, her crew, and her friends. 

I particularly liked the film’s beginning as it starts with little computer screen videos of fans telling the world why they listen to Katy. Hearing the fans speak their minds is as powerful as any Academy Award winning scripted drama because everything is real and genuine. The messages they hear in her songs, their responses to her music, and their telling of how her music helped them through their own moments of trouble is actually rather moving and a great way to start a biographical feature. 

Amidst the interviews and back-story footage, Part of Me covers her performances during her tour in an inordinate number of countries. We also see handheld and on-the-spot documentary style camera work creep into the mix as we get a peep into what goes on off stage and behind the scenes. 

The film chronicles the strenuousness of Katy’s life on tour as well as the toll it took on her and her marriage with comedic actor and renown sexy-man Russell Brand and throughout the entire duration you find yourself both smiling with, singing with, rooting for, and crying with our leading heroine. 

Filled with history, music, amazing costumes, romance, drama, and bubbly fun, Katy Perry: Part of Me is a wonderful concert movie that really makes you see Katy Perry for what she is: not just this internationally sensational pop star with a great voice and gorgeous song, but a genuine bright spark in a dark corner that refuses to be blown out. I think, after watching this movie, everybody would want to be like Katy.