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Across the Universe (2007)

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Average Rating: 5.8/10
Reviews Counted: 154
Fresh: 81 | Rotten: 73

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

49

Average Rating: 5.6/10
Critic Reviews: 37
Fresh: 18 | Rotten: 19

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

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Movie Info

Set against the anti-war protests, rock & roll revolution, and mind-expanding psychedelia of the 1960s, Julie Taymor's hallucinogenic musical follows the arduous journey of star-crossed lovers Jude (Jim Sturgess) and Lucy (Evan Rachel Wood) as they and a small group of musicians are swept up in the raging waters of the volatile counterculture movement. Guided through their journey by a pair known only as Dr. Robert (Bono) and Mr. Kite (Eddie Izzard), Jude and Lucy are eventually forced to find

PG-13,

Musical & Performing Arts, Romance

Dick Clement, Ian La Frenais

Feb 5, 2008

$24.3M

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Critic Reviews for Across the Universe

All Critics (159) | Top Critics (39) | Fresh (81) | Rotten (73) | DVD (20)

...the long and winding road that is Julie Taymor's opulent, eye-filling, and disappointingly uninvolving musical extravaganza...

October 19, 2007 Full Review Source: Film.com | Comments (6)
Jonathan F. Richards
Film.com
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Across the Universe isn't beholden to any stage incarnation. It owes its vision to the vibrant imagination of its director, who created a musical that reminds us how cultural-political events can change our tune.

October 5, 2007 Full Review Source: Denver Post
Lisa Kennedy
Denver Post
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[A] visionary attempt to wed a story of young love and 1960s war protest to the Lennon-McCartney catalog.

October 3, 2007
Peter Travers
Rolling Stone
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A baby-boomer masturbatory center

August 27, 2009 Full Review Source: CinePassion
Fernando F. Croce
CinePassion

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

March 29, 2009 Full Review Source: TheMovieReport.com
Michael Dequina
TheMovieReport.com

Visually and thematically audacious...

November 6, 2008 Full Review Source: Reel Film Reviews
David Nusair
Reel Film Reviews

A marvelous visual experience that works even for non-Beatles fans.

September 30, 2008 Full Review Source: Cinema Sight | Comment (1)
Wesley Lovell
Cinema Sight

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

August 2, 2008 Full Review Source: Apollo Guide
Dan Jardine
Apollo Guide

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

April 10, 2008
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.

February 28, 2008 Full Review Source: Colorado Springs Gazette
Brandon Fibbs
Colorado Springs Gazette

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

February 7, 2008 Full Review Source: Reeling Reviews
Robin Clifford
Reeling Reviews

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

February 4, 2008 Full Review Source: Cinema Signals
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.

February 4, 2008 Full Review Source: SpoutBlog
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"...

February 4, 2008 Full Review Source: Cinema Crazed
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.]

February 3, 2008
Peter Canavese
Groucho Reviews

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.

January 9, 2008 Full Review Source: Laramie Movie Scope
Robert Roten
Laramie Movie Scope

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

December 6, 2007 Full Review Source: Cinema em Cena
Pablo Villaca
Cinema em Cena

Misses by the size of the Atlantic Ocean in getting to what the Beatles were about.

November 18, 2007 Full Review Source: Ozus' World Movie Reviews | Comments (7)
Dennis Schwartz
Ozus' World Movie Reviews

Thoroughly entertaining and delightfully tuneful, this fun little film will have you singing to yourself for days afterwards.

November 7, 2007 Full Review Source: Internet Reviews
Steve Rhodes
Internet Reviews

an ambitious mess of a movie that stretches a thin premise across a bold canvas, resulting in moments of near ecstasy mixed with a nagging lack of emotional involvement

November 3, 2007 Full Review Source: Q Network Film Desk | Comment (1)
James Kendrick
Q Network Film Desk

It's more than a nostalgia trip. The real pleasure lies in Taymor's ability to make it all seem brand new.

November 2, 2007 Full Review Source: Sydney Morning Herald
Sandra Hall
Sydney Morning Herald

Whatever one thinks of it, it's clear that this film isn't made from a recipe for mainstream American embrace.

October 27, 2007 Full Review Source: FilmStew.com | Comments (2)
Brent Simon
FilmStew.com Source: FilmStew.com

Julie Taymor's adventure in Beatle-land is a huge success, ripping the songs that defined a generation and its (dashed) hopes for peace in a microcosm of a love story

October 27, 2007 Full Review Source: Urban Cinefile
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Audience Reviews for Across the Universe

This may sound harsh, but "Across The Universe" is basically a Beatle-themed "Glee" movie. This isn't necessarily an insult - if you like that show's alternate take on hit songs and how it incorporates the music into its plotlines, then there is no reason not to enjoy this film. If you don't like "Glee", I've probably already talked you out of it.
April 29, 2011
Sam Barnett
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four stars
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Across the Universe Quotes

    1. Max Carrigan: I'm a cross dressing, homosexual, pacifist with a spot on my lung.
    – Submitted by Madeline T (9 months ago)
    1. Dr. Robert: We're navigators, we're aviators, eatin' taters, masturbatin' alligators, bombardiers, we got no fears, won't shed no tears, we're pushin' the frontiers of transcendental perception.
    – Submitted by Madeline T (9 months ago)
    1. Max Carrigan: Would you excuse me? I have a date with Uncle Sam.
    – Submitted by Jose R (14 months ago)
    1. Mr. Kite: Nice make of the woods!
    – Submitted by Jose R (14 months ago)
    1. Lucy: I would lay down in front of a tank if it would end this war and bring Max home!
    2. Jude: Yeah? Well it wouldn't.
    – Submitted by Georgia S (15 months ago)
    1. Jo-Jo: Never knock the way another cat swings, man.
    – Submitted by rob g (2 years ago)
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