Yellow Submarine (2012)
Average Rating: 7.9/10
Reviews Counted: 46
Fresh: 44 | Rotten: 2
A joyful, phantasmagoric blend of colorful animation and the music of the Beatles, Yellow Submarine is delightful (and occasionally melancholy) family fare.
Average Rating: 7.3/10
Critic Reviews: 9
Fresh: 8 | Rotten: 1
A joyful, phantasmagoric blend of colorful animation and the music of the Beatles, Yellow Submarine is delightful (and occasionally melancholy) family fare.
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Yellow Submarine is an animated meandering journey filled with puns and dry British humor, where psychedelic music videos take precedent over any linear story. What little there is of a plot, however, concerns a vibrantly colored place called Pepperland that resembles the album cover for Sgt. Peppers Lonely Hearts Club Band come to life. The swirling animation is a mixture of pop-culture images and modern artistic styles brought loosely together with a naïve antiwar message and some clever
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Paul Angelis
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Peter Batten
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All Critics (46) | Top Critics (9) | Fresh (48) | Rotten (2) | DVD (16)
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.
Top CriticHere are all the ingredients of a novel entertainment.
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.
The animation is imaginatively conceived, but stiffly executed.
There's such a wide disparity of graphic styles from sequence to sequence. Some of them, though, still look terrific.
Top CriticYellow Submarine is a family movie in the truest sense.
The anti-establishment hipness of this animated film from the 1960s is such that it uses sans-serif fonts!
A unique and often brilliant animated film that pictures the Beatles as towering and often god-like gentlemen who have the power to change worlds...
An outrageously inventive piece of eye-popping pop, it still qualifies as one of the greatest animated movies ever made. (It also landed in the number 11 spot on Creative Loafing's own list of The 20 Greatest Rock Films Ever Made.)
Whether it was a case of inspiration or coincidence, most of Yellow Submarine's more creative and graceful visuals are those that complement the songs.
even without the Beatles-endorsed drugs of the time, it's still fascinating to watch
The 1968 animated classic by the Beatles as their declaration of independence.
If the film's mod trappings seem locked in a specific (and increasingly distant) era, its playful wit remains timeless.
What a trip.
Beatles classic with great animation, music.
Truly one of the finest animated films and one of the finest cinematic musicals of all time.
A garish, gorgeous example of pop art at its finest.
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.
A zesty, satisfying celebration of animation, fantasy, love, and the Beatles that pleases the eyes as much as the ears.
Audience Reviews for Yellow Submarine
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- Ringo/Chief Blue Meanie: First time I saw that nowhere man, that nobody, I knew he was somebody.
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- Ringo/Chief Blue Meanie: It must be on of those unidentified flying cupcakes.
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- George: Hey, that's a funny place to leave a goldfish bowl.
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- Ringo/Chief Blue Meanie: *sleepy* The hillls are alive..
- Max: WITH THE SOUND OF MUSIC!
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- Ringo/Chief Blue Meanie: Are you sure you're Bluish? You don't look Bluish.
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- Ringo/Chief Blue Meanie: He's so smart he doesn't know what he knows.
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Latest News on Yellow Submarine
January 2, 2013:
Robert Zemeckis Reconsiders Yellow Submarine Remake"It's probably better not to be remade -- you're always behind the 8-ball when do you a remake."
December 20, 2011:
Remembering the Lord of the Rings Movie That Might Have BeenOnce upon a time, the Beatles approached Stanley Kubrick about directing them in an adaptation of...
January 12, 2010:
Fab Four in Talks for Yellow SubmarineLadies and gentlemen, meet your mo-cap Fab Four: Cary Elwes, Dean Lennox Kelly, Peter Serafinowicz...
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- Yellow Submarine (DE)
- Yellow Submarine (UK)
