Buono! Live Tour 2010 -Rock'n Buono! 3-

Buono! Live Tour 2010 ~Rock 'n Buono! 3~ is the third concert DVD from Buono and it's quite a good one. It's better than the second concert although not as inspired as the first one, "Live Hybrid Punch" (2009)--but then it's doubtful anything could be as inspired as that one. Except for one serious omission, which I'll get to in a minute, this set list is filled with wonderful songs (21 in all, with two more as a bonus feature). There isn't a slow moment or a false note anywhere. The girls have an energy level that's hard to match anywhere else in Hello! Project and it only gets pumped up even more at the 48-minute mark when the four-woman rock band, Dolce, comes out and joins them onstage. Two of the women rockers performed at both previous concerts, while the bassist and the drummer are new. The women seem to really enjoy performing for Buono and the three Buono girls get new energy when the rockers come on stage, as was the case at their previous concerts. The girls all look great and are well photographed throughout. There are five costume changes, all nice, but the most attractive are the satiny Union Jack dresses they wear when the rock band comes out. The highlights for me were "My Boy" (which was missing from the previous concert) and "Independent Girl." I like the slower numbers, too, including "Over the Rainbow," "Kimi ga Ireba," and "Blue-Sky-Blue." My only complaint is that my favorite Buono song, "Co.No.Mi.Chi," is not in the concert. For that reason and that reason alone, I'm giving this four stars instead of five. It should have been in here. (And it should have been on their "Best Buono" CD album also, but it isn't.) There's a "VTR" segment in the middle of the concert that shows the girls on vacation somewhere and they go to an amusement park and ride in cars that are called "go-karts," but look more like bumper cars to me. It's a six-minute segment. However, there's a 33-min. DVD extra that shows the same footage plus a lot more, including segments devoted to ping pong and dart-throwing. While it's great fun to watch Momoko vamp no matter where she is, the ping pong and darts segments are just about long enough to overstay their welcome. And I never did figure out where they went. There are two extra songs also, "Shoushitsuten - Vanishing Point" and "I Need You." Nice enough to make us want more songs instead of the vacation footage.