Twenty One Pilots have followed suit with the rising popularity of live concert screenings in theaters. “Twenty One Pilots: More Than We Ever Imagined” debuted in cinemas and IMAX worldwide on Feb. 26, bringing their headlining show in Mexico City to fans around the world.
Performing for a crowd of 65,000 people, Twenty One Pilots’ Mexico City stop of “The Clancy World Tour” on Feb. 25, 2025, was accompanied by a film crew. The film’s runtime is just under two hours, featuring all but five songs performed during the initial concert.
After their song “Drag Path” began going viral on social media late last year, Twenty One Pilots have reappeared in the public eye, and “Twenty One Pilots: More Than We Ever Imagined” is further fueling this resurgence of the band’s notoriety. While many people know of the band from their hit songs “Stressed Out,” “Ride” and “Heathens,” the concert film raked in $3.7 million opening weekend from 836 screenings, proving the fandom is alive and well.
The film opens with a behind-the-scenes moment before the concert, with lead singer Tyler Joseph and drummer Josh Dun’s arrival in Mexico City. The film features multiple behind-the-scenes moments scattered between songs, one of the first breaks being after their performance of “Car Radio.”
Joseph is notorious for climbing scaffolding, stage arches and light fixtures during the band’s performance of “Car Radio,” sometimes to a fault when a show was once cut short due to “safety reasons.” The show in Mexico City was no different for this gimmick, but the behind-the-scenes footage in the film showed all the safety precautions set in place to pull off the stunt. Crew members explained to Joseph that they had a structure designed for him to climb, to which he looked at a rooftop across the venue and declared he wanted to climb that instead.
The behind-the-scenes portions of the film delve into the intricacies of not only Joseph’s visions for the performance but also the effort the crew put into making the show much more than just a live performance. From traversing from an A-stage to a B-stage to performing atop platforms in the audience, to jumping off the piano to grab a swinging microphone — the hard work put into the production was highlighted for viewers across the globe to see.
Throughout the course of the songs shown in the film, the camera angles change from close-ups of the band and their set design, to members of the audience singing along and to aerial shots of the venue. The energy in this headlining performance was captured by the film crew, allowing film-goers to feel a part of the show itself.
The band has done a screening of a live performance before, debuting the “Scaled and Icy Livestream Experience” on May 21, 2021, where the band went from set to set performing for a pay-per-view audience during the COVID-19 pandemic.
The livestream was made as a choreographed, storytelling visual performance of the band’s music while the “More Than We Ever Imagined” film heavily incorporates the raw reactions of fans at the concert. This adds a personable accompaniment to their performance, highlighting Mexico City’s astoundingly large crowd.
That being said, the shots are often bombarded with thousands of cellphones in the audience. This aspect can take one out of the viewing experience as a distraction from the band’s performance. Joseph and Dun held a private show on Oct. 22, 2025, with no cellphones allowed where the performances were filmed, displaying a fully immersed crowd without a cellphone in sight.
Another behind-the-scenes moment features Joseph before the show playing the piano to an empty venue, preparing for the debut concert performance of “The Line,” which was featured in Netflix’s television show “Arcane.” “The Line” helped the band gain traction after Joseph and Dun’s first official performance of the song at the Game Awards in 2024, where Joseph showcased his ability to gutturally scream over a piano melody in a sad song.
The performance of “The Line” in Mexico City was swapped out from the “Self-Titled Medley,” where the two played a combination of songs from the band’s original album, titled “Twenty One Pilots,” which was released in 2009 before Dun joined the band.
The film provided fans with an opportunity to experience many songs from the setlist of “The Clancy Tour” that were cut from their latest tour entitled “The Clancy Tour: Breach.” This included “Navigating,” long-standing setlist returner “Holding On To You” and a fan favorite off their album “Clancy”: “Lavish,” where Joseph and Dun walked down the stage arm-in-arm wearing funky sunglasses and singing about proctology.
As the band announced their unknown future regarding upcoming music and the ending of the lore that has been growing since the “Trench” album in 2018, “Twenty One Pilots: More Than We Ever Imagined” gives anybody the opportunity to experience a Twenty One Pilots concert, from casual enjoyers, to old fans, to new.