A motion picture whose awfulness can hardly be imagined on a human scale.
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09/16/07
Sergeant Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band (1978)
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Reviews Counted:20
Fresh:3
Rotten:17
Average Rating:2.9/10
Runtime: 1 hr 53 mins
Genre: Musical & Performing Arts
Synopsis: Henry Edwards creates a thin story line to tie the Beatles' popular album together. Grinch-like Mean Mr. Mustard menaces the happy hamlet of Heartland until pop wunderkind Billy Shears (Frampton)... [More]
Starring: Peter Frampton, George Burns, Frankie Howerd, Donald Pleasence
Director: Michael Schultz
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Reviews for Sergeant Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band
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Pathetic acting and a scattershot plot sink this pitiful attempt by producer Robert Stigwood to turn the landmark Beatles album Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band into an engaging film.
09/10/07
A totally bubblegum and cotton candy melange of garish fantasy and narcissism.
09/10/07
Top CriticInert musical set to the bubblegum music of the popular 1967 Beatles album.
04/12/06
This crass moral pantomime is plain embarrassing.
02/09/06
The music is really good, too. Never mind the 'story.'
01/19/06
Oh yeah, the Bee Gees are much better than that other band.
08/29/05
No review available.
07/07/05
No review available.
06/19/05
This isn't a movie, it's a business deal set to music.
05/09/05
Top Criticgleefully nutty chaos!
09/19/04
No review available.
10/10/03
Sitting through what passes for a story here is like trying to make a meal out of a can of vanilla frosting. ...The comments on the test screening scorecards must have been priceless.
08/19/03
No review available.
07/29/03
You need not see it to believe it.
05/24/03
Mermerizingly awful. A bad idea, badly executed
10/02/02
A fascinating mess with strong retro camp appeal.
07/01/02
Indescribably awful.
01/01/00
Top CriticI stared at the screen wondering how anyone thought this could possibly have found an audience, even in the degraded '70s.
01/01/00
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