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Love this movie SO MUCH! The animation is so cool, especially for its time. The Chief Blue Meanie was such a hilarious character. 

Also I was wondering: according to certain websites, the Four are voiced by other people. I’m pretty sure that’s not true… but I’d like to know for sure.

50yearslate said
Sadly, the voices in the film are not those of the Beatles. It’s very sad. There is little in this world that I love more than their voices. I think the same guy voiced two of them… and George’s guy left partway through (I think he was an army deserter? I’m not sure…). 

I love this movie too! The Chief is great… but I love Max.   

I agree that The Beatles voices are some of the most wonderful sounds ever. It’s a shame they didn’t do the voice acting. On a related note, when I was little, there was a children’s show called Thomas and Friends, and the UK version’s first two seasons were narrorated by Ringo, and to this day it’s like ASMR for me.

Can we all agree that the ending was one of the sweetest scenes of all time?

All right, I just came here to say again how underrated *cough* *cough* amazing this film is.

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That’s all. 

50yearslate said 2. and also because the Help thread does not exist

On it already, mate.

50yearslate said 

If you’ve figured out how to resurrect it, please do tell me as I miss it 

  

Just made a new topic, nothing much.

Look, I love this movie for the sheer experience, but there are things I would change. For starters, the Beatles themselves being barely involved is a pure sin. (They didn’t want to be.)

If they were gonna make this, The script should have been written by them. John was MADE for this type of imagery and he should have had input (Apart from a few gags of his being added.)

Some of the plot is rushed. We barely get to know anything about Pepperland or why the Meanies attack it apart from one or two lines of dialog with a bland excuse. I know, “The plot isn’t the point.” –and thats to the film’s detriment.

Some of the song sequences serve absolutely no purpose. The LUCY IN THE SKY sequence happens for no reason, effects nothing, and doesn’t even give us the right imagery for the song. All the others at least relate to what happens on screen.

The acting by the ones voicing the Beatles are each awful. They sound board throughout and wooden with very little emotion or even properly in character dialog. Lets be honest: All The Beatles are Mary Sues in the film….yeah I said it.

All in all, it’s a fine movie for a surrealistic animation experience but it fails to be as good as it could have been.

Found this, though:

JOHN in 1980 (on the movie soundtrack): “It was the third movie that we owed United Artists. Brian (Epstein) had set it up and we wanted nothing to do with it. They wanted another song, so I knocked off ‘Hey Bulldog .’ It’s a good-sounding record that means nothing.”

YEAH John! Break that illusion!

Edit:

Oooh, Paul agrees with me too!

PAUL: “Al Brodax talked to us about the possibility of doing a feature and we met at my house in London. Erich Segal came along as well. At the start, all four of us hoped for something a little bit groovier… sort of more classic ‘Pinocchio’ or ‘Snow White.’ Right away, they (Broadax and Segal) made it clear that they weren’t keen to do just a straight Disney thing… and said, ‘We think you’re further out now.’ So from being rather childish, which the (saturday morning) cartoon series most definitely was, they wanted to go completely psychedelic! So they went ahead and made something that ‘at the time’ I wasn’t wild about because it lacked the ingenuity and warmth and over-all magic you associate with Disney. The end result was that ‘Yellow Submarine ‘ just didn’t draw me into it. Basically I thought it had alot of very clever sequences, but nothing more. Looking back now, it most definitely is a piece of it’s time, and you can’t escape the fact that it was very innovative.”

Nah, Macca! You’re good. Spot on: A good idea with lazy execution.