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Taken in increments, Bono’s theatrics — stumbling around with a blindfold on, embracing his bandmates like a footballer who’s just won the World Cup, falling back as if struck by God or reaching forward to throw imaginary loaves and fishes — are plain silly. But within the arc of a U2 show, they become convincing. The music simultaneously contains and elevates Bono’s enthusiasm; the staging makes it seem modern.

Structuring the arena experience this way through its tours since the early 1980s, U2 made it relevant for its own somewhat cynical generation. “U2 3D” is the next step toward engaging the “iGeneration” (as Bono and others have called it) by proving that what happens in the flesh can feel as potent in a virtual context.

The next wave of concertgoing may indeed be virtual. There’s been an explosion of music-related videos and films, from documentaries to screen versions of “one time only” concert events. For this longtime U2 fan, the “U2 3D” experience wasn’t quite sensual enough, but to quote another Bono lyric, others may find it “even better than the real thing.”

It will depend on the crowds in theaters; if they’re willing to cheer and raise the occasional illuminated cellphone (as they did at Sundance), they’ll feel connected to each other, not just the images bursting forth from the screen. That connection is U2’s paradigm. Only the audience can judge whether “U2 3D” sustains it.

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