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.
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.
Runtime: 1 hr 31 mins
Genre: Childrens
Synopsis: In this animated feature with the Fab Four, the magical Pepperland is invaded by the Blue Meanies, who have declared war on all that is good--especially music. At the request of a befuddled... In this animated feature with the Fab Four, the magical Pepperland is invaded by the Blue Meanies, who have declared war on all that is good--especially music. At the request of a befuddled emissary from Pepperland, the lads from Liverpool take a ride in their yellow submarine to aid the besieged residents in their battle. Peter Max designed the distinctive look of the animation, and the real-live Beatles themselves appear in a brief sequence at the film's end. Includes the songs "Yellow Submarine," "Just A Northern Song," "Sergeant Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band," "Eleanor Rigby," "Lucy in the Sky with Diamonds," "Nowhere Man," "A Day in the Life," and others, as well as several orchestral numbers by noted Beatle producer George Martin. [More]
Starring: Beatles
Starring: Beatles
Director: George Dunning
Director: George Dunning
Producer: Al Brodax
Screenwriter: Al Brodax, Lee Minoff, Erich Segal, Jack Mendelsohn
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Release:
Sep 14, 1999
DVD Features:
- Region 1
- Keep Case
- Letterbox - 1.85
Audio:
- Dolby Digital 5.1 Surround
- Dolby Digital Mono
Additional Release Material:
- Audio Commentary
- Additional Animated Song - "Hey Bulldog"
- Featurette: Behind The Scenes Featurette - THE MOD ODYSSEY
- Isolated Music Score
- Trailers: Theatrical Trailer
Interviews:
- 1. Crew
- 2. Vocal Talents
Text/Photo Galleries:
- Behind-the-Scenes Photos
- Original Pencil Drawings
- Storyboards (Including 2 Not Used in the Film)
Additional Products:
- Collectible Booklet
Reviews for Yellow Submarine
There's such a wide disparity of graphic styles from sequence to sequence. Some of them, though, still look terrific.
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.
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.
To this reviewer the film went down easier when the world seemed a lot simpler.
A movie so joyous (and mildly demented) as to rewrite the rules of what a movie can be.
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.
Yellow Submarine is less a movie, in fact, than a series of connected music videos, animated in a dazzling variety of styles.
The movie's boggling matter-of-factness is a key to its enduring -- no, its deepening -- charm.
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