Across the Universe
A romantic musical told mainly through numerous Beatles songs performed by the characters. A young man from Liverpool comes to America during the Vietnam War to find his father. He winds up in Greenwich Village, where he falls in love with an American girl who has grown up sheltered in the suburbs. Together they experience the sweeping changes of America in the late 60's.
Wow.... that was a colossal mess. With the musical that has every potential to be visually mind-blowing, the film really suffered from the lack of character development, plot development, consistency and uninspiring singing performance. And like Moulin Rouge (another musical I HATE!), its a worthy idea to integrate some of the Beatles songs into the story/film, but there was nothing inventive and creative used in those songs and the people giving the covers were so forced and try-hard. Some of the characters were a waste of celluloid, such as Prudence which the film can really benefited without her since she really didn't bring alot to the story. The thing with musical is that it has to be an all-rounded great performances for both the singing part and the non-singing/drama part and the drama parts are so boring and un-interesting, which wasn't really enough to keep the film going. The psychedelic trip-out scenes were visually great to look at and very freaky that they are so dangerous to stoners and pot-heads. Yet it also abandons the film's story and they can come across as point-less. If you like to see Disney's teenagers doing an amateur job on covering Beatles song, then here it is.
1 and a half out of 5 stars
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