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Dir: George Dunning (1968)
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Dir: George Dunning (1968)
Ah, look at all the lonely people....Ah, look at all the lonely people
Eleanor Rigby, such a poetic song! Its verses are simple and yet so haunting in the loneliness it describes. It's been one of my favorite Beatles songs since I was a youngster. Yellow Submarine is like one grand psychedelic music video that's loosly based on two different Beatles songs Sgt Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band and the of course the titular song Yellow Submarine.
There's 15 Beatles songs in a scant 85 minute long movie. Four of those songs were introduced for the first time in the movie. Like any musical the joy is in the music and the story is secondary to the songs.
The Beatles themselves do not voice their own characters, that's done by voice actors...but the songs are authentic Beatles and there's a short live action epilogue featuring the Fab Four.
The animation style might be off putting to modern audiences but animated aficionados and 'baby boomers' might appreciate the very distinct free-form style of late 1960s animation which scream psychedelic!
I seen Yellow Submarine on TV as a kid and the one thing I remembered was the blue meanies! and the submarine I always liked the funky submarine. My favorite music number is the high energy Lucy in the Sky With Diamonds.
that's for the movie, the music would be a 5/5
There's 15 Beatles songs in a scant 85 minute long movie. Four of those songs were introduced for the first time in the movie. Like any musical the joy is in the music and the story is secondary to the songs.
The Beatles themselves do not voice their own characters, that's done by voice actors...but the songs are authentic Beatles and there's a short live action epilogue featuring the Fab Four.
I seen Yellow Submarine on TV as a kid and the one thing I remembered was the blue meanies! and the submarine I always liked the funky submarine. My favorite music number is the high energy Lucy in the Sky With Diamonds.
that's for the movie, the music would be a 5/5