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Evan Rachel Wood
Jim Sturgess
Max Carrigan
Joe Anderson
Dana Fuchs
Martin Luther

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A young British man travels to the U.S. during the Vietnam War where he meets a brother and sister who take on the hippy attitude of the 1960's. Musical.

06/24/2009 (0 of 0 found this helpful)

Big visuals, no real plot

I wanted to like this movie. I really did. I just can't. Granted, the visuals and music were fabulous. The problem for me is the lack of real plot. It felt like random Beatles songs were picked out and then a loose plot was built around it. There were strangely unnecessary characters floating about through the movie. The plot was nearly nonexistant. The acting was okay, but not great. I couldn't really care about the characters. I just couldn't lke the movie. I know there's lots of people who love it, so I can't say don't see it. I can only say it didn't do it for me.

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2/4 

04/22/2009 (0 of 0 found this helpful)

ACROSS THE BEATLES UNIVERSE

A medley of The Beatles hits put into film while trying to concoct a plot. I didn't realize that JULIE TAYMOR met my brother years ago before her rise to stardom. My brother gave her a grand tour of the Philippines, and invited her to speak at seminars for PETA (PHILIPPINE EDUCATIONAL THEATRE ASSOCIATION - not to be mistaken for the animal-friendly movement). My brother said that she was a decent lady with a magnetic persona. Hopefully, she stayed the same.

The film made $29 million against a huge $45 million production budget. Like any other musical, the challenge is to make sense of all the sub plots involved and come up with a single-thread storyline. My daughter adores the film because, according to her, "JIM STURGESS IS HOT!" OK! Well, I think EVAN RACHEL WOOD is hot too....

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2.5/4 

10/25/2008 (1 of 1 found this helpful)

Colorful

If one were to open up Julie Taymor's head they would probably find a box full of oddly shaped confetti. This woman's artistic interpretations are crazy. Everytime I see something that Julie Taymor was apart I'm left dumbfounded. She just takes images and ideas and does things with them that no one else can ever think of. When I saw the previews for this movie I already knew it was going to be an adventure to watch it. I really like the way this was done. It was the furthest thing from being a typical musical. I love The Beatles and I love how the music was incorporated into the film. This was like a mix between Rent and Hair with a great love story. Good job with this one "Jules."

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3/4 

10/15/2008 (0 of 0 found this helpful)

60%

Action: 2/3 + Comedy: 0/2 + Good vs Evil: 0.5/1 + Love/Sex: 1/1 + Special Effects: 1/1 + Plot: 1/1 + Music: 0.5/1 = 6/10 or 60%.

The films visuals are the thrill within this piece. Apartment walls become the sky, football players cartwheel through coming out declarations, and strawberries are the military's splattering bombs. Even a simple bowling alley isn't safe within it's own conformity, instead falling into unified leaps over the ball dispensers with people rolling themselves down the lanes.

The songs themselves, all Beatles remakes, seem wedged and forced into the story though. A newspaper story, for example, conjures "A Day in the Life" briefly because it contains the line "I read the news today" and that's it. Thus, the visual balance outweighs and questions the use of the m...

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2/4