The animation is imaginatively conceived, but stiffly executed.
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09/06/07
Yellow Submarine (1968)
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Reviews Counted:35
Fresh:33
Rotten:2
Average Rating:7.6/10
Consensus: 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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Reviews for Yellow Submarine
Top CriticNot a splendid time for all.
09/09/05
There's such a wide disparity of graphic styles from sequence to sequence. Some of them, though, still look terrific.
06/24/06
A zesty, satisfying celebration of animation, fantasy, love, and the Beatles that pleases the eyes as much as the ears.
09/06/07
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.
09/02/08
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.
09/04/08
A garish, gorgeous example of pop art at its finest.
09/02/08
This psychedelic trip into the minds of the Beatles is certainly memorable, but you have to wonder what this movie would be like without the awesome collection of Beatles tunes punctuating the soundtrack.
01/01/00
To this reviewer the film went down easier when the world seemed a lot simpler.
02/13/01
No review available.
06/29/05
Inventive animated feature. Yeah, yeah, yeah.
10/24/03
No review available.
08/01/02
A charming little fable with great Beatle songs and animation
08/26/02
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.
09/06/07
Top CriticVisually inventive.
03/10/03
Yellow Submarine is less a movie, in fact, than a series of connected music videos, animated in a dazzling variety of styles.
01/01/00
The movie's boggling matter-of-factness is a key to its enduring -- no, its deepening -- charm.
01/01/00
Top CriticNo review available.
06/20/03
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