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Yellow Submarine

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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

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Reviews for Yellow Submarine

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A garish, gorgeous example of pop art at its finest.

Full Review Source: Empire Magazine | comment Comment
09/02/08
Caroline Westbrook
Caroline Westbrook
Empire Magazine
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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.

Full Review Source: Channel 4 Film | comment Comment
09/02/08
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There's such a wide disparity of graphic styles from sequence to sequence. Some of them, though, still look terrific.

Full Review Source: Time Out | comment Comment
06/24/06
Time Out
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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.

Full Review Source: TIME Magazine | comment Comment
09/04/08
TIME Magazine
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A zesty, satisfying celebration of animation, fantasy, love, and the Beatles that pleases the eyes as much as the ears.

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09/06/07
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Here are all the ingredients of a novel entertainment.

Full Review Source: Variety | comment Comment
09/06/07
Variety Staff
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Variety
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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.

Full Review Source: Chicago Reader | comment Comment
09/06/07
Lisa Alspector
Lisa Alspector
Chicago Reader

The animation is imaginatively conceived, but stiffly executed.

Full Review Source: Chicago Reader | comment 4 Comments
09/06/07
Dave Kehr
Dave Kehr
Chicago Reader

No review available.

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01/09/06
S. James Wegg
S. James Wegg
JWR

Not a splendid time for all.

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09/09/05
John Wirt
John Wirt
Advocate (Baton Rouge, LA)

A movie so joyous (and mildly demented) as to rewrite the rules of what a movie can be.

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09/06/05
Gregory Weinkauf
Gregory Weinkauf
ÜberCiné

No review available.

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06/29/05
Emanuel Levy
Emanuel Levy
EmanuelLevy.Com

Inventive animated feature. Yeah, yeah, yeah.

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10/24/03
Gerry Shamray
Gerry Shamray
Sun Newspapers of Cleveland

No review available.

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06/20/03
Michael Szymanski
Michael Szymanski
Zap2it.com

Yellow Submarine is a family movie in the truest sense.

Full Review Source: New York Times | comment Comment
05/20/03
Renata Adler
Renata Adler
New York Times
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No review available.

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05/08/03
Brandon Judell
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PopcornQ

Visually inventive.

Full Review Source: Austin Chronicle | comment Comment
03/10/03
Marjorie Baumgarten
Marjorie Baumgarten
Austin Chronicle

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03/07/03
Mike McGranaghan
Mike McGranaghan
Aisle Seat

No review available.

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02/14/03
Robert Roten
Robert Roten
Laramie Movie Scope

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01/19/03
Tony Toscano
Tony Toscano
Talking Pictures (U.S.)
 
 
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