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Reviewed by UK Guest, 8th Dec 2003. |
| Review Summary: Great music and animation, terrible script |
Overall Score: 4/5
 
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Review: The Beatles' Yellow Submarine found the perfect look, I think, when Heinz Edelmann was brought in as designer. His bold pop art look is a perfect fit for the surreal theme of the story and the music. At times resembling the paintings of Heironymous Bosch, at others like an Edwardian photo album, it captures a sort of popular idea of the hallucinatory experiences that the Beatles sang about in their songs. I can believe the producer(in the commentary) when he says that the animation was the product, not of drug use but of extremely hard work by a lot of talented people
A pity then that the same cannot be said about the script. I think that the effort required to give the dialogue a jocular, laid back tone was such that almost all plot development through dialogue was lost. It is only in the Nowhere Man sequence that any kind of tension between the Beatles is allowed to appear. As a result the main characters seem to drift along with an air of detatchment. But then, in that, perhaps, the script writers got closer to the true effect of the psychedelic experience than even the animators. |
Ratings
| Value For Money: |
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4 |
| Review Score: |
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4 |
| Recommended? | |
Yes |
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