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Yellow Submarine
The wicked Blue Meanies take over Pepperland, eliminating all color and music. As the only survivor, the Lord Admiral escapes in the yellow submarine and journeys to Liverpool to enlist the help of the Beatles.
Release : | 1968 |
Rating : | 7.4 |
Studio : | United Artists, King Features Syndicate, Apple Corps, |
Crew : | Director of Photography, Director, |
Cast : | Paul Angelis John Clive Dick Emery Geoffrey Hughes Lance Percival |
Genre : | Adventure Fantasy Animation Comedy Music |
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Captivating movie !
It’s sentimental, ridiculously long and only occasionally funny
Great story, amazing characters, superb action, enthralling cinematography. Yes, this is something I am glad I spent money on.
It is neither dumb nor smart enough to be fun, and spends way too much time with its boring human characters.
even if you're not a Beatles fan, even if "psychedelia" isn't your thing, I do believe this 60s time-capsule has enough going for it to where it's worth watching. Maybe not multiple times, but at least once.This bears saying because it IS kind of stupid, when you break it down to its bare elements. The idyllic English countryside fantasy-world of "Pepperland" has been taken over by the "Blue Meanies," and only the Beatles can stop them. So it's a surreal but nonsensical journey from the Beatles' Liverpool to Pepperland, punctuated by a bunch of their songs which have very little to do with the story. Plus a handful of jokes which are painfully un-funny.This totally would be an embarrassingly trite cash-grab if not for the truly interesting and unique art direction, which really has nothing to do with the Beatles at all except for them both exploiting a psychedelic look. This Czech guy, Heinz Edelmann, designed everything with this neon-tubed, pop-art, minimalist look that really works.Even better are the weird images and effects that pop up, especially during the musical sequences. Like the Oscilloscope under the face-caricatures in "Only a Northern Song," or the rotoscoped acrobats in "Lucy in the Sky with Diamonds." I can see how many would find this all to be just artsy-fartsy nonsense, but for me it works. Even without any apparent underlying meaning, it somehow feels both whimsical and sad, in a good way.In summation, this movie is well-financed Outsider Art. It's trite, but it's also well-developed in some ways. And there's nothing else out there quite like it.
The otherworldly Pepperland has been taken over by the ruthless music hating Blue Meanies. The people are immobilized and the colors drained. Old Fred escapes on the Yellow Submarine and recruits the members of The Beatles to bring back the music. They meet a strange creature named Jeremy Hillary Boob Ph.D. They arrive in Pepperland and revive the mayor. The guys go off to battle the Blue Meanies and their minions with music.This is most noted for its psychedelic colors and imagery. The story is pretty basic with some great Beatles tones. It has the Blue Meanies and all the rest. The first hour is a meandering adventure in various crazy locations. The guys finally meet the Blue Meanies in the last half hour. It has some of the most imaginative vibrant visuals.
I've been wanting to see this movie for a long time. Ever since I started liking the Beatles. I will admit I wanted to watch it even more after seeing a parody of it on Robot Chicken. So I finally watch it after years of wanting to. It was awesome. The animation isn't technically the best, though it doesn't have to be. It's very creative and beautiful to look at, nice use of colour, and the creatures and backgrounds are nicely designed.The songs were of course great. Though sometimes they seem to start at random. Like they start growing beards like old men, Paul starts singing when I'm 64. It's not a song about being old, it's about loving someone forever and growing old as a romantic couple. The dialogue is weird but funny. I'm not sure but it sounded like some of it was improvise. Like Ringo said something about "Dating Frankenstein's sister Phyllis." I would recommend this film to hardcore Beatle fans and Semi fans who are interested in weird stuff.
When somebody watches Yellow Submarine, they're either going to think it's an extremely hard to watch film which can only be viewed and respected by LSD addicts, or they're going to think it's a charming, pleasant, wonderful adventure with a killer musical score. Happily, I'm more for the latter.The film begins with the happy world of Pepperland being bombarded by the music-hating Blue Meanies. An old man is the only one who manages to escape, so he sails off into Liverpool, with Pepperland's mystical Yellow Submarine, for help. There he finds the Fab Four (of course), living in a bizarre house bursting with... well... pretty much everything. I can't explain it, you'll have to watch it.They agree to help him save Pepperland, and thus a trippy, psychedelic adventure begins. They travel through different dimensions, all imaginative beyond words, and singing their classic songs through-out (a mix of old favourites and new ones recorded for the film, all of them brilliant as usual). The animation is fantastic and has a style of all its own, and some of the designs are truly outstanding.There are moments when the film just snaps and forgets it's at least supposed to coherently tell a story, but most of the film genuinely is a lot of fun. The writing is both tremendously clever and terribly groan- inducing (there are too many puns the Fab Four crack to count), but there's never an unimaginative moment or line.Famously, the Beatles only allowed Yellow Submarine to be made to complete their three-movie contract with United Artists, not even contributing their own voices (the animated Beatles were instead voiced by Paul Angelis, John Clive, Geoff Hughes and an uncredited Peter Batten, who all do a brilliant job), only adding four new songs to the film. However, they loved the first cut so much that they agreed to pop up at the end in a cameo, singing another round of "All Together Now". It works brilliantly.Overall, Yellow Submarine is an endlessly imaginative adventure, with brilliantly original animation and fabulous musical numbers. It can be very hard to watch in places, but as a whole it's a pleasant and enjoyable adventure with the Fab Four. In its odd way, it's very almost perfect.