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Across the Universe (2007)

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Reviews Counted:151

Fresh:80

Rotten:71

Average Rating:5.8/10

Consensus: Psychedelic musical numbers can't mask Across the Universe's clichéd love story and uninteresting characters.

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Rated: PG-13 [See Full Rating] for some drug content, nudity, sexuality, violence and language

Runtime: 2 hr. 11 min.

Genre: Romance, Musical & Performing Arts

Theatrical Release: Sep 14, 2007 Wide

Box Office: $24.3M

Synopsis: A romantic musical told mainly through numerous Beatles songs performed by the characters. A young man from Liverpool comes to America during the... A romantic musical told mainly through numerous Beatles songs performed by the characters. A young man from Liverpool comes to America during the Vietnam War to find his father. He winds up in Greenwich Village, where he falls in love with an American girl who has grown up sheltered in the suburbs. Together they experience the sweeping changes of America in the late 60's. [More]

Starring: Evan Rachel Wood, Jim Sturgess, Joe Anderson, Dana Fuchs

Starring: Evan Rachel Wood, Jim Sturgess, Joe Anderson, Dana Fuchs, Martin Luther McCoy, T.V. Carpio, Spencer Liff, Lisa Hogg, Nicholas Lumley, Michael Ryan, Angela Mounsey, Erin Elliott, Robert Clohessy, Christopher Tierney, Curtis Holbrook, John Jeffrey Martin, Matt Caplan, T.R. Boyce, Aisha de Haas, Leah Hocking, Bill Buell, Ellen Hornberger, Amanda Cole, Danya Taymor, Dylan Baker, Linda Emond, Lynn Cohen, Bill Irwin, Jennifer Van Dyck, Timothy T. Mitchum, Carol Woods, Elain R. Graham, Orfeh, Antonique Smith, Tracy Nicole Chapman, Yassmin Alers, Deidre Goodwin, Joe Cocker, Jacob Pitts, Staceyanne Chin, Jeanine Serralles, Leonard Tucker, Daniel Stewart Sherman, Harry J. Lennix, Logan Marshall-Green, James Urbaniak, Kathleen Early, Ching Valdes-Aran, Bono, Daniel Ezralow, Kiva Dawson, Halley Wegryn Gross, Luther Creek, Jerzy Gwiazdowski, Arabella Holzbog, Ambrose Martos, Peter Mui, Karine Plantadit-Bageot, Dan Weltner, Christopher Youngsman, Eddie Izzard, Ekaterina Sknarina, Tracy Westmoreland, Ron C. Jones, W.W. Wilson, Salma Hayek, Luke Cresswell, Jarleth Conroy, Mandy Gonzales, Destan Owens, Cicily Daniels, Saycon Sengbloh, Sam Kitchin, Chris McGarry, Frank Hopf, Bruce "Cousin Brucie" Morrow, Navarra Novy-Williams, Sarah Jayne Jensen, Michelle Lookadoo, Geoff Countryman, Julien Joy, Conrad Korsch, Brian McKenna, Jack Petricelli, Timothy Keiper, Arthur Lewis, Mark Lewis, Bryan Noll, Michael Arenella, Cyro Baptista, Frank Fighera, Ritt Henn, Mark Stewart, Bruce Williamson, Charley Drayton, Tom Grasso, Joey Sykes, Paul Wallfisch, Yasmine C. Lee, Brian Letendr, Tiger Martina, Tim McGarrigal, Allie Meixner, Dario Mejia, Angel Morales, Matthew Neff, Marty Lawson, Abdul Latif Salazar, Tyler Gilstrap, Greg Graham, Cody Green, Matthew Hamel, Sean Martin Hingston, Holly Ryan, Dell Howlett, Terace Jones, Dominique Kelley, Mari Koda, Jason Lacayo, Rika Okamoto, Danny Paschall, Nathan Peck, Andrew Turteltaub, Michael Tracy, Stacey Sund, Marcos Santana, Dennis Stowe, Matthew Steffens, Todd Michael Smith, Bradley Jordan Spencer, Ying-Ying Shiau, Nicole Wolcott, Wenshuan Yang, Giovanni Perez, Bobby Pestka, Kyle Pleasant, Avery Ragsdale, Desmond S. Richardson, Samuel Roberts, Alberto Dister Rondon, Natsumi Sakurai, Kenneth Ziegler, Jonah Spear, Chris Ghelfi, Adesola Osakalumi, Lara E. Tinari, Caryn Allen, Ronald Blackman, Erik Justin Gaines, Marlene Mason, Tanisha Mason, Cheryl McClurkin, Donald A. McClurkin Sr., Lorna McClurkin, Bob Gaynor, Enrique Brown, Ryan Kelly, Luis Rojas Salgado, John Selya, Christine Woodside, Leah O'Donnell, Nicole Berger, Samuel Martín, Andrew Asnes, Patrick O'Neill, Olivia McClurkin, Terrell Middleton, Jada Scott, Brian Brooks, Shawn Burgess, Ian Carney, Sandy Chase, Ron De Jesus, Jean Emile, Billy Fagen, Angelo Fraboni, Kathryn Fraggos, Adolpho Blaire, Charissa Barton, Murl Smith, Jor-El Wharton, Devin Wharwood, Alyssa Woodside, Marcus Bellamy, Tim Acito, Kevin Aubin, Collin Baja, Michael Balderama, Kurt Froman, Martin Luther

Director: Julie Taymor

Director: Julie Taymor
Screenwriter: Dick Clement , Ian La Frenais
Producer: Charles J. Newirth , Derek Dauchy , Jennifer Todd , Matt Gross (II) , Matthew Gross
Studio: Sony

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REVIEWS FOR ACROSS THE UNIVERSE

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A baby-boomer masturbatory center

Full Review Source: CinePassion | comment Comment
Aug 27, 2009
Fernando F. Croce
Fernando F. Croce
CinePassion

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Full Review Source: Orlando Sentinel | comment Comment
May 13, 2009
Roger Moore
Roger Moore
Orlando Sentinel
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N/R

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Full Review Source: Boston Phoenix | comment Comment
Apr 23, 2009
Peter Keough
Peter Keough
Boston Phoenix

The actors all do considerable justice to the Fab Four's classics, but they are ultimately failed by Taymor's neglect of actual story.

Full Review Source: TheMovieReport.com | comment Comment
Mar 29, 2009
Michael Dequina
Michael Dequina
TheMovieReport.com

Visually and thematically audacious...

Full Review Source: Reel Film Reviews | comment Comment
Nov 6, 2008
David Nusair
David Nusair
Reel Film Reviews
N/R

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Full Review Source: NPR.org | comment Comment
Oct 18, 2008
Bob Mondello
Bob Mondello
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A marvelous visual experience that works even for non-Beatles fans.

Full Review Source: Oscar Guy | comment 1 Comment
Sep 30, 2008
Wesley Lovell
Wesley Lovell
Oscar Guy

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Full Review Source: Sacramento News & Review | comment Comment
Aug 7, 2008
Jim Lane
Jim Lane
Sacramento News & Review

chooses cheesy and nostalgic mis-en-scene over meaningful engagement with the musical material. A terrible disappointment.

Full Review Source: Apollo Guide | comment Comment
Aug 2, 2008
Dan Jardine
Dan Jardine
Apollo Guide

'Across the Universe' is whimsical silliness, imaginatively constructed but precious and gratingly excessive.

Full Review Source: San Francisco Examiner | comment Comment
Apr 10, 2008
Rossiter Drake
Rossiter Drake
San Francisco Examiner

Across the Universe doesn't completely work, but when it does, you're in for one wild and wonderful ride.

Full Review Source: Colorado Springs Gazette | comment Comment
Feb 28, 2008
Brandon Fibbs
Brandon Fibbs
Colorado Springs Gazette

The DVD two-disk set gives us the remarkable movie plus lots of extras

Full Review Source: Reeling Reviews | comment Comment
Feb 7, 2008
Robin Clifford
Robin Clifford
Reeling Reviews
N/R

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Full Review Source: Entertainment Insiders | comment Comment
Feb 7, 2008
Jonathan W. Hickman
Jonathan W. Hickman
Entertainment Insiders

Proves compelling enough to give meaning to the whole as a successful experiment and stylization, if predictable and sentimental.

Full Review Source: Cinema Signals | comment Comment
Feb 4, 2008
Jules Brenner
Jules Brenner
Cinema Signals

A shorter cut, stripped of some of the forced multiculturalism and contemporary political references, would play like gangbusters in middle schools.

Full Review Source: SpoutBlog | comment Comment
Feb 4, 2008
Karina Longworth
Karina Longworth
SpoutBlog

For my money, give me the original songs and a beer any day, but for a cute treat with a linear story and engaging characters, I suggest "Across the Universe"...

Full Review Source: Cinema Crazed | comment Comment
Feb 4, 2008
Felix Vasquez Jr.
Felix Vasquez Jr.
Cinema Crazed

It's a dicey proposition to reverse-engineer a story, and Across the Universe shows the strain...[nonetheless] a very impressive music-video anthology. [DVD review included.]

Full Review Source: Groucho Reviews | comment Comment
Feb 3, 2008
Peter Canavese
Peter Canavese
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Jan 18, 2008
Melissa Anderson
Melissa Anderson
Time Out New York

While the story is not entirely coherent, the great Beatles music and numerous effective cast musical performances makes up for the film's narrative weakness.

Full Review Source: Laramie Movie Scope | comment Comment
Jan 9, 2008
Robert Roten
Robert Roten
Laramie Movie Scope

Uma obra frustrante, mas suficientemente curiosa para merecer uma pouco efusiva recomendação.

Full Review Source: Cinema em Cena | comment Comment
Dec 6, 2007
Pablo Villaca
Pablo Villaca
Cinema em Cena
 
 
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