rock concert, U2 show they have few peers." Mark Brown of the Orange County Register called it "the real thing — more than two hours of glorious, uninterrupted U2 concert footage". Brown said, "throughout you get the front-row spectacle of the stunning Zoo tour. Most music videos are hard to watch more than once; this one demands repeated viewing." Catherine Applefeld of Billboard said, "The 28 cameras that were employed... at first blush might seem a bit excessive, but just minutes into this video masterpiece, viewers will be praising the merits of each and every one." Applefeld described the show as "A veritable blizzard of hi-tech artistry" and thought the set list covered the band's repertoire well. Amy Linden of Entertainment Weekly said, "Although U2 is in fine musical form... the emphasis... isn't on the band's chops, but rather on their chips (as in computers)". She thought that the tour's "high-tech hoopla slowly eats away at what is actually a powerful performance" and that the group used video clichés with a "pretentious smugness". Reviewing the DVD re-release, Andrew Perry of The Daily Telegraph said, "U2's Zoo TV extravaganza is widely regarded as the greatest rock tour ever staged. This full concert... should amaze anyone who missed it." Perry praised the group's performances, saying, "U2 deal out their early stadium classics and Achtung Baby-era novelties with equal majesty". Bernard Zuel of The Sydney Morning Herald called the Zoo TV Tour "the most spectacular show the Irish band (or any act, for that matter) had staged". He added, "Perhaps appropriately, seeing this concert on TV may be a better way of taking it in than seeing it in the flesh." Daniel Durchholz of the St. Louis Post-Dispatch said, "On DVD at last, 'Zoo TV' chronicles... one of the most ambitious tours ever", adding that it "can't really capture how overwhelming the 1992 show was in person, but it's still pretty mind-blowing". Randy Pitman of Video Librarian called the concert a "tour de force performance" and said "this landmark concert from one of the premier rock bands of the past quarter century is highly recommended". Stuart Derdeyn of The Province said, "They don't make tours like this anymore", praising performances of songs such as "Mysterious Ways" as well as the DVD's bonus materials. He concluded, "If the point the band was trying to make was that we should watch less TV, it failed.