Yellow Submarine is a family movie in the truest sense.
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05/20/03
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 CriticThis 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 Critic[The film embidies] exactly what the Beatles represented emotionally and philosophically in the mid-'60s: artistic daring, cheeky non-sentimentality, a new generation taking over, naively confident the world was 'getting better all the time.'
04/03/02
Visually inventive.
03/10/03
It's a credit to the art direction by Heinz Edelmann that this feature has retained its entirely distinctive look decades later
01/01/00
To this reviewer the film went down easier when the world seemed a lot simpler.
02/13/01
A music-based animated film for the ages.
01/01/00
Top CriticAlmost 20 years after its release, this charming fable chronicling the Beatles' battles to save Pepperland from the Blue Meanies is one of the best testaments ever to the redeeming value of good music.
01/01/00
Top CriticYellow 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 animation is imaginatively conceived, but stiffly executed.
09/06/07
Top CriticMore than any other musical, animated or otherwise, Yellow Submarine is enhanced by its 11 Beatles ditties rather than justified by it.
01/01/00
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
The movie's boggling matter-of-factness is a key to its enduring -- no, its deepening -- charm.
01/01/00
Top CriticHere are all the ingredients of a novel entertainment.
09/06/07
Top CriticA certified classic.
01/01/00
A garish, gorgeous example of pop art at its finest.
09/02/08
There's such a wide disparity of graphic styles from sequence to sequence. Some of them, though, still look terrific.
06/24/06
Top CriticThere'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
Top CriticA zesty, satisfying celebration of animation, fantasy, love, and the Beatles that pleases the eyes as much as the ears.
09/06/07
Top CriticIf 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
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