Christine LoFranco Taylor
Yellow Sub is back on screen but in limited release July 9 and July 14. I would have to drive over 100 miles south or north or north-east to get to a 7pm show .... and I will. This is probably my most watched childhood film. Releasing it remastered in 1999 was genius. From a pop-culture standpoint everyone should see it once. If a Beatle fan it should bee seen multiple times. While the Beatles don't voice their characters and had nothing do to with the art the inspiration to those who did create the film just from a handful of songs is immense. And, if you can find the VHS or Laserdisc you will see the edited version that was available from 1968 to 1999 until the Hey Bulldog sequence was added back in. So, there are two versions to watch.
framptonhollis
The Beatles star (and sing) in this endlessly watchable and extremely bizarre odyssey through time, space, and music. Filled with wit and humor, this is among the most feel good films I have ever seen, and it is also among the very finest. While watching it, I could not believe how utterly enjoyable and exciting such a viewing experience is. this is a film like few others, this is a film that transports the viewer to a new world, entirely different from our own. Its atmosphere is one of positivity, but that positivity does not get in the way of the possibilities of conflict and melancholy.The weird, almost boundless voyage one takes while experiencing "Yellow Submarine" is one matched by few other films (Lynch, Svankmajer and Jodorowsky come to mind as filmmakers who can reach this film's level of surrealist mastery). This is one of the trippiest and most boundless works of all animation as it grabs a hold of its viewer, shoving an everlasting series of visually stunning imagery, masterful music, and lighthearted comedy. By the end of the film, most viewers will be left not only entertained and amused, but also inspired. this is a classic example of a "love conquers all"-type film, and it is constructed brilliantly. It is not a preachy movie, but a positive one. The message is one of universal worth and is conveyed in the most likable, comical, surreal, and utterly insane(ly entertaining) way possible!
Dalbert Pringle
Intentionally marketed as a "head movie" (at the very height of the flower-power craze of the mid-1960s), Yellow Submarine is an animated offering, with songs, that probably comes across a helluva lot better if you're stoned.But, if you don't indulge in such mind-numbing, I mean, mind-altering activities as this, then you'll surely find yourself (like I did) at a disadvantage, feeling somewhat short-changed by this decidedly disappointing and over-hyped "Beatles" movie.Featuring some really terrible humor, a boring story-line, and flat, uninspired pop-art animation, I view Yellow Submarine as being something of a "message" movie.Even though this film's "message" is somewhat vague, one can clearly tell that Yellow Submarine was a movie intended to make The Beatles more money (which it did) by trying to deceive the viewer into believing that The Fab 4 actually cared about more than just money (which they probably didn't).This is one of those movies that just hasn't aged very well in the 46 years since its 1968 release. To me, Yellow Submarine's story seems to be geared more to naive children, rather than to intelligent, thinking adults.One of this film's biggest downfalls was that a good number of The Beatles' songs that riddled the story (such as Eleanor Rigby, Nowhere Man, & When I'm 64) just didn't fit very well into its plot-line which focused on a crisis in Pepperland that was provoked by an all-out attack from the Blue Meanies.
bigverybadtom
I saw this movie on TV as a child. It actually wasn't that much weirder than many other cartoons from that era.Later in life, I would see "Help!" and "A Hard Day's Night", the live-action Beatles movies. Both were romps with interruptions for scenes where the Beatles would perform their various songs. None of them were deeply meaningful-or purported to be. They were like extended versions of "The Monkees" television shows.So what makes "Yellow Submarine" different? Mainly, the animation and the fantasy elements and pictures that could not be placed in their live-action movies. They appear in the flesh briefly in the end, and one of them comments, "That was a nice little party." I'm certainly nobody intended for this to be anything else.
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