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Maxahlia

A bit boring every now and then and Lucy and Jude had no chemistry of any kind whatsoever. Otherwise enjoyable.

11 years 4 months ago

In my humble opinion if you love Beatles music, you will enjoy this movie. Is a (sometimes unbearable romantic) story told through the Beatles songs, in the decade of 60's. In my opinion the music is (obviously) the aspect they cared most, and even when it's not played by the Beatles themselves, are very good covers, the visual effects are very good as well, but the plot is just nonsense...

Plus the appearing of Bono, almost ruin the movie for me.

12 years 4 months ago

greatarrangement

Very well done for a musical. The musical numbers don't seem random; the lyrics actually advance the plot.

12 years 5 months ago

Masonstevens95

I think that the plot of this movie isn't the point. The point of this movie (in my opinion) was to show the insane spectrum of emotion and relevance the Beatles covered. Also I really liked how the characters got caught up in so many events of the sixties. I thought the movie carried the atmosphere of the sixties pretty well.

7 years 11 months ago

worstmovies

Actually, It's Pretty Awful.

12 years 9 months ago

tebeku

I just get so annoyed with the auto tune.

5 years 9 months ago

Siskoid

Moulin Rouge meets Hair and Rent in Julie Taymor's Across the Universe, the director's most mainstream film, surely, though I personally like her Shakespeare adaptations more. Probably, audiences are more ready to accept her highly theatrical visuals in music video vignettes; it's a vocabulary people are familiar with. I'm not a big Beatles fan, so the use of their songs to tell these stories (the love story is what's advertised, but there are subplots for a whole loftful of artist types) was fine - good arrangements, etc. - but at times seemed to force the film into certain corners. Song selection railroading the story awkwardly. But the other side of that coin is that it made the film very much about the same thing the Beatles' music was - love, Vietnam, the hippie revolution, and psychedelia - and as such, is less about its characters than it is about the Beatles themselves - with nods to their real lives and careers - and their place in Western culture.

6 years 7 months ago

daisyaday

Makes me nostalgic for "Help!", "Yellow Submarine," etc., which are all much better than this.

12 years 2 months ago

hank0rz

If you love The Beatles, you will love this musical. I, for one, love it. 9/10

12 years 6 months ago

Justcharmingyou

I really loved it. It was really amazing how the writers were able to make a story out of all those great beatles songs.
Also, it always amazes me how people saw\y a movie is "Awful" when others say they love it and give to explanation, just because YOU didn't like it, does not make it awful buddy.

12 years 7 months ago