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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A motion picture whose awfulness can hardly be imagined on a human scale. Full Review |
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0/4 |
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. Full Review |
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A totally bubblegum and cotton candy melange of garish fantasy and narcissism. Full Review |
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Inert musical set to the bubblegum music of the popular 1967 Beatles album. Full Review |
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This crass moral pantomime is plain embarrassing. Full Review |
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 3/5 |
The music is really good, too. Never mind the 'story.' Full Review |
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0/5 |
Oh yeah, the Bee Gees are much better than that other band.
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1/5 |
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3/5 |
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1.5/5 |
This isn't a movie, it's a business deal set to music. Full Review |
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2/5 |
gleefully nutty chaos!
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1/5 |
The only reason to watch this is to laugh at how bad it was. That, and the haircuts.
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1/5 |
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2/4 |
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. Full Review |
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2/5 |
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You need not see it to believe it. Full Review |
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0/5 |
Mermerizingly awful. A bad idea, badly executed
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4/5 |
A fascinating mess with strong retro camp appeal. Full Review |
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Indescribably awful. Full Review |
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1/5 |
I stared at the screen wondering how anyone thought this could possibly have found an audience, even in the degraded '70s. Full Review |
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