Yellow Submarine (1968)

Sorry, this movie sucks

Entertaining from beginning to end, it maintains the spirit of the franchise while establishing it's own seal with a fun cast

It's easily one of the freshest, sharpest and most enjoyable films of this year.

The story, direction, characters, and writing/dialogue is akin to taking a tranquilizer shot to the neck, but everything else was so well done.

Yellow Submarine is an LSD trip without the need to take the drug in the first place. It's one of the best films ever to come out of the 60s and one of the most mesmerising animated films of all time. It's got The Beatles; their classic songs; and the animation has never been recaptured in another piece of work. It's a unique time capsule from a simpler generation.The story's basically this: the Blue Meanies are hellbent on destroying PepperLand, and eradicating music altogether. However, one sailor, named 'Young' Fred, manages to escape the Meanies in a Yellow Submarine: a magical one that can fly and probably transcend time and space for all we know. And Fred must get the help of The Beatles, Paul, John, George and Ringo, to stop the Blue Meanies once and for all!The story is simple, but the trip we're taken on throughout the movie is exceptionally wonderful. It's oozing with Beatles joy and nostalgia. To put it simply this film is pretty damn flawless.P.S. I'm glad that CGI motion-captured remake never got to see the light of day. It would have ruined the memory of this film.

I saw this movie on TV as a child. It actually wasn't that much weirder than many other cartoons from that era.Later in life, I would see "Help!" and "A Hard Day's Night", the live-action Beatles movies. Both were romps with interruptions for scenes where the Beatles would perform their various songs. None of them were deeply meaningful-or purported to be. They were like extended versions of "The Monkees" television shows.So what makes "Yellow Submarine" different? Mainly, the animation and the fantasy elements and pictures that could not be placed in their live-action movies. They appear in the flesh briefly in the end, and one of them comments, "That was a nice little party." I'm certainly nobody intended for this to be anything else.

I've been wanting to see this movie for a long time. Ever since I started liking the Beatles. I will admit I wanted to watch it even more after seeing a parody of it on Robot Chicken. So I finally watch it after years of wanting to. It was awesome. The animation isn't technically the best, though it doesn't have to be. It's very creative and beautiful to look at, nice use of colour, and the creatures and backgrounds are nicely designed.The songs were of course great. Though sometimes they seem to start at random. Like they start growing beards like old men, Paul starts singing when I'm 64. It's not a song about being old, it's about loving someone forever and growing old as a romantic couple. The dialogue is weird but funny. I'm not sure but it sounded like some of it was improvise. Like Ringo said something about "Dating Frankenstein's sister Phyllis." I would recommend this film to hardcore Beatle fans and Semi fans who are interested in weird stuff.

The film Yellow Submarine is unique in its positive attitude towards the flower power movement. Nearly all films portray flower power as immoral and even violent. This includes apparent cult products like Easy Rider, Fritz the Cat, Strawberry Statement, and even Hair (the movie). Obviously the establishment had a strong disliking against the rebellious forces. In essence flower power was creative and sensual. And Yellow Submarine manages to grasp this atmosphere of hope and development. Certainly John Lennon and George Harrison themselves were icons of the kind-hearted attempt to revolutionize human relations. The resulting film is lovely albeit somewhat naive. The graceful state of Pepperland is overpowered by the emperor of the blue forces. The Supreme Counselor of Pepperland sends out the Yellow Submarine in order to get help. This help turns out to consist of the Beatles, and in particular their music. For the blue forces shrink at the sound of music. Their existence is based on the word No. Their main weapons are the flying gloves (note the resemblance to love), that of course contain fists and are capable of causing nuclear explosions. In the end the music prevails, and even elicits tears from the emperor of the blue meanies (sounds almost cute). Perhaps it helps, that there is a total lack of reds. Just green pastures, butterflies and free fruit. And shaking hands, the secret symbol of the reds. Still the separation between good and bad is less obvious than it seems. For on their quest the Beatles fraternize with "Nowhere man", a cross-breed of a monkey and a blue soldier (isn't he a bit like you and me?). According to Lennon he is content, just let him be, and continue his circular movements. But the gentle Star adopts the creature. And during the liberation of Pepperland the Beatles discover copies of themselves, enclosed in a bowl of blue glass. It leads ever present Lennon into reflections about space and time. And life in general, naturally. Another ambiguous object (there are many) are the big green apples, that are used by both parties in order to put out of action the others. However, the Beatles act devoid of violence. They just appeal to common sense, resignation, perseverance, and humor. Undoubtedly this was the spirit and attitude of the overwhelming majority of the people involved in the flower power counterculture. It is nice to finally watch a film that says just that, and no more.