Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band (1978)

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Did you people see the same film I saw?

what a terribly boring film. I'm sorry but this is absolutely not deserving of best picture and will be forgotten quickly. Entertaining and engaging cinema? No. Nothing performances with flat faces and mistaking silence for subtlety.

It is encouraging that the film ends so strongly.Otherwise, it wouldn't have been a particularly memorable film

This is a movie featuring the Bee Gees singing Beatles songs. I'm reminded of such classic movies about the Beatles like "A Hard Day's Night" and "Yellow Submarine". Those were much better...because they actually had the Beatles in them! This movie features a villain named Mr. Mustard who wants to steal the band's magic instruments. It's about as dumb as it sounds. At least it's not worse.The worst thing is that they try to put a plot together while singing all these songs. I know that the Beatles were known for being surreal, but this is just sloppy. Nothing is coherent and you can't follow the plot because the songs are too random. The one saving grace of the film is George Burns, who is honestly quite enjoyable in this film. I remember this appearing on Wikipedia's list of movies considered the worst. It has been removed and it's probably not one of the worst. *1/2

These reviews are fun to read. No this is not good cinema. It's poorly conceived and about as dumb as any film could be (and the 70s were a breeding ground for bad cinema).Still, like many who have commented here, it is a guilty pleasure and it is entertaining, if not intellectually stimulating.Yes, it's in the category of "so bad, it's good".It has a lot to do with trying to fit a very eclectic group of songs and try to make a plot out of it. Kind of like trying to fit into a pair of 501s that's a size 36, and you're John Goodman.Still, there was Aerosmith and "Come Together", Earth Wind and Fire and "Got to Get You Into My Life" and Steve Martin as Mr Maxwell.Not a total loss, but very nearly. Some Universal exec could have been executed for this, let alone fired.

I saw this 3x at the movies when I was 6 years old (in 1978). There are no words to describe how much i loved it & the impact it had on me. Probably the best memory from my childhood (i did have a pretty shitty childhood). I saw it again recently & remembered every scene & how it played out.This film gave me a life-long love of Beatles' music & the firm belief that music is the reason for living. Not a bad legacy for supposedly the worst film ever made. Yeah it's cringe-worthy & the acting (if you can call what, in particular, the Bee Gees do in this film 'acting') is embarrassing, but it seems almost everyone who saw this as a kid is a major fan. It really should've been marketed as a kids film. This film remains very close to my heart & gets 10 stars from me.

A strong contender for worst movie of the 1970s. The idea of dramatizing the Beatles songs into a full length movie may have sounded like a good idea after the success of The Who's TOMMY, but in execution, SGT PEPPER is mind numbingly bad. Peter Frampton and the BeeGees substitute for the Fab Four as a band who have to battle the evil Mr. Mustard (Frankie Howerd)for control of their hometown Heartland. Heartworm is more like it. The mayor is the decrepit George Burns and people like Elvin Bishop, Peter Allen, Carol Channing and Leif Garrett make up the town's population. An abysmal, out of touch movie that soils the reputations of a lot of really talented people. Thrown into the mix are Aerosmith, Donovan, Minnie Riperton, Steve Martin and Donald Pleasence...which makes one wonder if the casting director was suffering from a fit of dementia when assembling this lot.