Stray Kids: The Dominate Experience Is a K-Pop Fan Fever Dream

Even if you were idiosyncratic who accidentally stumbled into a showing of Stray Kids : The Dominate Experience astatine an IMAX theater, by the extremity of it you'll travel distant with either a K-pop catchy melody carved into your frontal lobe, a newfound respect for performance stagecraft, oregon a caller and unnerving crush connected astatine slightest 1 of the band's members. Quite perchance each three. Whether you're a caller accomplishment connected K-pop island, oregon ain 263 photograph cards and person an Instagram relationship devoted to Hyunlix theories, Stray Kids : The Dominate Experience delivers.

The existent assemblage for this is the service of Stray Kids fans, known arsenic Stay, and designation of that is threaded done each opus and soundbite. Stray Kids : The Dominate Experience is simply a performance movie meticulously enactment unneurotic from footage from the K-pop group's 2025 SoFi stadium performances, unneurotic with abbreviated interviews with each of the 8 members and conscionable a dash of down the scenes footage. It's not a glimpse into the acheronian underbelly of the K-pop industry, there's nary expansive communicative beyond “Stray Kids enactment truly damn hard and it's paying off,” and for anyone who says there's not capable grit and excessively overmuch polish, well, I similar my diamonds to shine.

Whoever your bias is, you won't beryllium disappointed. My beloved Felix showcases his deeper than the Mariana Trench vocals and bares his soul, bias wrecker Hyunjin is saucier than a full condiment aisle successful a market store, Changbin's rapping is adjacent much awesome connected stage, Han continues to beryllium cuter than a bucket of squirrels, and Lee Know and Seungmin's Cinema show is simply a standout moment. Someone successful the different good behaved screening assemblage couldn't assistance but outcry "daddy!" arsenic Bang Chan talked astir looking aft the remainder of the members, and determination was an audible pained groan astatine 1 constituent portion I.N was wearing a harvest top. Each subordinate spotlight is simply a premix of prepared gloss and earnestness that you don't often spot from Western groups, and that yet managed to disarm adjacent this cynical Brit.

I'm not going to spoil the full acceptable database for anyone who hasn't recovered it online (or was adjacent fortunate capable to spot it live) but it's the rollercoaster thrust done the galore moods and styles of SKZ you privation it to be. Maniac and LALALALA were peculiar highlights, but I besides got a caller appreciation for immoderate of the much neglected tracks connected my idiosyncratic Stray Kids Bangers playlist. Domino, I did you soiled and I apologize.

By the clip the encore deed the IMAX theatre I was watching in, it was hard to differentiate the cheers and singing from surface to seat. The beforehand rows got up and danced, and the airy sticks were brandished with pridefulness similar a sword salute to a beloved general. Even if you deliberation this is conscionable a masterclass successful selling for the upcoming tours for Karma, past good played, due to the fact that I americium present consenting to perpetrate existent felonies to unafraid tickets to 1 of their North American shows.

Stray Kids : The Dominate Experience arrives successful theaters connected February 6.

Rachel Weber is the Head of Editorial Development astatine IGN and an elder millennial. She's been a nonrecreational nerd since 2006 erstwhile she got her commencement connected Official PlayStation Magazine successful the UK, and has since worked for GamesIndustry.Biz, Rolling Stone and GamesRadar. She loves horror, fearfulness movies, fearfulness games, Red Dead Redemption 2, and her Love and Deepspace boyfriends.