Across the Universe (Two-Disc Special Edition)

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Across the Universe (Two-Disc Special Edition)
from Sony Pictures
starring Evan Rachel Wood, Jim Sturgess, Joe Anderson (VI), Dana Fuchs, Martin Luther (II)
directed by Julie Taymor

Features:

• AC-3
• Closed-captioned
• Color
• Dolby

Customer Reviews:

• Avg. Customer Rating: 4.0 / 5.0

• Great Movie
  I've been a fan of the Beatles since birth so I was a little skeptical at how they were going to change the songs and do a musical. But it turned out way better than expected. Great song versions including "I wanna hold your hand" and "While my guitar gently weeps". Liked the story. Shot and directed beautifully.

• More painful than the Beatle's break-up.
  The common link I find to all of the negative reviews of this horrible film is that the people who hate the film are huge Beatles fans. Also, all of us went to see this movie WANTING to love it. And like many of the other reviewers, I left the movie thirty minutes into the film. As soon as that dude began singing into the camera, I knew someone had brewed up and concocted a disaster. THE MOVIE HAS NO PLOT. All the filmmaker did was tape together one song after another, hoping that a plot would emerge... more info

• Pretentious, Contrived, And Excremental
  This pretentious nonsense preaches socially conscious lessons straight from the hippy manifesto as an excuse to stitch together hallucinogenic music videos featuring a variety of performers singing Beatles songs. The songs vary in quality dramatically, with the very worst being "Let It Be", "Come Together", and "I Want You" (as an Army recruiting musical), although given the breadth of material it's hard to single out a true low point.
  There is lots of very plastic dialogue about revolution, etc. (e.g.... more info

• I was there, and I can remember it all.
  Julie Taymor has done a remarkable job of capturing the essence of the 60's; the color is right, the sequence of events is right, the escalation of emotions is right and the music is right. I was 23 in 1967 and lived on the lower East Side of New York City where most of the scenes in the film takes place. It all happened the way Taymor describes from the street people, to the draft, to the Bread and Puppet Theatre marching down Fifth Avenue. So if you want to experience or relive that moment in time or... more info

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