A garish, gorgeous example of pop art at its finest.
Yellow Submarine (1968)
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Reviews Counted:35
Fresh:33
Rotten:2
Average Rating:7.6/10
Consensus: A joyful, phantasmagoric blend of colorful animation and the music of the Beatles, Yellow Submarine is delightful (and occasionally melancholy) family fare.
Runtime: 1 hr 31 mins
Genre: Childrens
Synopsis: In this animated feature with the Fab Four, the magical Pepperland is invaded by the Blue Meanies, who have declared war on all that is good--especially music. At the request of a befuddled... In this animated feature with the Fab Four, the magical Pepperland is invaded by the Blue Meanies, who have declared war on all that is good--especially music. At the request of a befuddled emissary from Pepperland, the lads from Liverpool take a ride in their yellow submarine to aid the besieged residents in their battle. Peter Max designed the distinctive look of the animation, and the real-live Beatles themselves appear in a brief sequence at the film's end. Includes the songs "Yellow Submarine," "Just A Northern Song," "Sergeant Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band," "Eleanor Rigby," "Lucy in the Sky with Diamonds," "Nowhere Man," "A Day in the Life," and others, as well as several orchestral numbers by noted Beatle producer George Martin. [More]
Starring: Beatles
Starring: Beatles
Director: George Dunning
Director: George Dunning
Producer: Al Brodax
Screenwriter: Al Brodax, Lee Minoff, Erich Segal, Jack Mendelsohn
Reviews for Yellow Submarine
There's a quiet note of melancholy in much of this material, which is much more persuasive and concrete than the larky, intoxicating pleasure usually claimed for the film.
There's such a wide disparity of graphic styles from sequence to sequence. Some of them, though, still look terrific.
If the result seems less a coherent story than a two-hour pot high, Submarine is still a breakthrough combination of the feature film and art's intimacy with the unconscious.
A zesty, satisfying celebration of animation, fantasy, love, and the Beatles that pleases the eyes as much as the ears.
This 1968 Beatles musical gets somewhat plot heavy near the end, but it's a marvel of innocence and free association, blending several animation techniques in a loose narrative full of gentle bad puns and flowing visual segues.
A movie so joyous (and mildly demented) as to rewrite the rules of what a movie can be.
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