G | 1h 25min | Animation, Adventure, Comedy | 17 July 1968 | Color, ws
Director: George Dunning
Stars: Paul McCartney, George Harrison, Ringo Starr, John Lennon.
https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0063823/
Watched on AmazonPrime.
17 songs in the Soundtracks.
I didn't watch 2 prior Beatles films because they were UK funded only. This is a joint venture across the pond.
I'm not a Beatles fan, but many of their songs are imprinted on my brain. I was easily able to mouth along with Eleanor Rigby and some others, but maybe half the songs seemed unfamiliar.
I was impressed to see the spoken voices were not the Fabs themselves. They get vocal credit in the film for the songs, but the dialog was by actors. The impressive part: it never occured to me that it wasn't them. I recognized each voice when they spoke without looking at the image to see who it was; ok, maybe not George.
I find no value in this film. I don't like the style of art/animation, don't care for the lads' music, found precious little story to be followed. I may have missed some of the film because my player wouldn't pause, so I backed out and when I resumed it was far from where I was. And good old AP doesn't have fast forward while viewing or with previews. (This is on my blu player; maybe it's better on Fire TV.) But I wasn't finding the film coherent up to then, and that was at least 75% in.
I won't give this a 5 yet. I'll allow for the possibility of later appreciation.
distr. UA, dir. Dunning; 6-
