Across the Universe2007
Across the Universe (2007)
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Cast
as Lucy
as Jude
as Max Carrigan

as Sadie
as Jo-Jo
as Prudence
as Rita
as Jude's Father
as Lucy's Father
as Phil
as Lucy's Mother
as Grandmother Carrigan
as Uncle Teddy
as Daniel's Mother

as Jo-Jo's Brother

as Gospel Singer

as Jo-Jo's Mother
as Bum/Pimp/Mad Hippie
as Rap Magazine Employee
as Dr. Robert

as Mother Superior

as Max's Girl
as Mr. Kite
as Singing Nurse

as Tramp Drumming on Bin Lids

as Bartender at Max's Bar

as Jude's Liverpool Girlfriend

as Cyril

as Jude's Mother

as Cheer Coach

as Dorm Buddy

as Dorm Buddy

as Dorm Buddy

as Dorm Buddy

as Jock

as Tavern Waitress

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as Daniel
as Old Guy at Tavern

as Lucy's Sister

as Emily

as High School Friend

as Hooker

as Hooker

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as Rap Magazine Employee

as Dani

as Katz's Waiter
as Cop at Wharf Warehouse
as Army Sergeant

as Max's Girl
as Green-Paco
as Sadie's Manager
as SDR Worker

as Aran-Luna Park

as Prankster

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as Fillmore Manager
as Black Panther

as Precinct House Sergeant

as Sadie's Singer

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as Sergeant on Rooftop
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as Door Officer at Strawberry Records

as Cousin Brucie Morrow

as Williams-High School Girlfriend

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as High School Dance Band Member

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Critic Reviews for Across the Universe
All Critics (155) | Top Critics (37) | Fresh (82) | Rotten (73) | DVD (8)
...the long and winding road that is Julie Taymor's opulent, eye-filling, and disappointingly uninvolving musical extravaganza...
Across the Universe isn't beholden to any stage incarnation. It owes its vision to the vibrant imagination of its director, who created a musical that reminds us how cultural-political events can change our tune.
[A] visionary attempt to wed a story of young love and 1960s war protest to the Lennon-McCartney catalog.
...Julie Taymor's rhapsodic mash note to John, Paul, George and Ringo falls just short of breathtaking.
Across the Universe is a classic example of ambition exceeding execution.
Most of the songs are performed in such saccharine style and staged so literally that they almost seem like they belong in a Broadway show. That's a very bad thing.
Audience Reviews for Across the Universe
This ambitious pastiche musical is perhaps just too avant-garde - trying to fit so many Beatles songs and tropes into a cohesive, motivated story about war, class, love, politics, (and failing in a narrative sense) - but dang it all if those crazy, trippy symbolic scenes and performances don't just make you want to have whatever Julie Taymor is having, whether sex, drugs, or rock and roll. Jim Sturgess is the most soulful of down-and-out bums, and it's disappointing that he hasn't gotten more high-profile jobs.
Super Reviewer
The idea of a film telling its love story primarily through Beatles songs is great. An d while some versions of the classic tunes work better than others, the same goes for their according scenes. Overall, the film tries a little too hard, especially the political commentary of the late 60s is unnecessary and forced. A shorter, much more focus movie would have worked so much better. That doesn't change the fact that some, not all, of the music sequences are magical.
Super Reviewer
This may sound harsh, but "Across The Universe" is basically a Beatle-themed "Glee" movie. This isn't necessarily an insult - if you like that show's alternate take on hit songs and how it incorporates the music into its plotlines, then there is no reason not to enjoy this film. If you don't like "Glee", I've probably already talked you out of it.
Super Reviewer
Across the Universe Quotes
Max Carrigan: | I'm a cross dressing, homosexual, pacifist with a spot on my lung. |
Dr. Robert: | We're navigators, we're aviators, eatin' taters, masturbatin' alligators, bombardiers, we got no fears, won't shed no tears, we're pushin' the frontiers of transcendental perception. |
Max Carrigan: | Would you excuse me? I have a date with Uncle Sam. |
Mr. Kite: | Nice Make of the Woods! |
Mr. Kite: | Nice make of the woods! |