Much like Justin Bieber: Never Say Never by the same directing duo of Dan Cutforth and Jane Lipsitz, Part of Me is a concert movie slash (auto)biographical documentary, intercutting live performance with interviews, archival footage and behind-the-scenes drama to paint a flattering portrait of its intensely popular subject. It made me both a fan of Katy Perry and a skeptic of Katy Perry simultaneously, which is quite an achievement. But surprisingly, it’s Part of Me that succeeds the best - just not in the way it probably intends. Both make a concerted effort at examining their protagonists’ “true” identities. In New Zealand, the magical wonderland in which I live, Katy Perry: Part of Me (released in various formats with The Movie and 3D appended to its title) came out the same weekend as The Amazing Spider-Man.
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