Though the film never quite shakes off its commercial sensibilities, it at least manages to mostly overcome them, imbuing the simplistic tale of heroic quest with satire, poignancy, dry humor and tremendous visuals. In its way, Yellow Submarine is not much more than a thin story linking together about a dozen really terrific Beatles songs.
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Their journey is a series of adventures in a myriad of seas full of colorful, exotic and sometimes dangerous creatures. Old Fred convinces Ringo and his three friends John, George and Paul to return to Pepperland with him to help defeat the Blue Meanies. Only Old Fred (voiced by Lance Percival) manages to escape, taking his yellow submarine through a sea of fantastical creatures and ending up in Liverpool, where Ringo is loitering by the river, just has he had been in A Hard Day’s Night a few years before. They launch an attack on the unsuspecting citizens, rendering them nearly immobile and turning Pepperland bland and gray. The nasty, music-hating Blue Meanies are lurking about, intent on destroying anything good in the world. Pepperland is a beautiful world where people happily stroll through colorful gardens, listening to the music of the famous Sgt. Fueled by feelings of good will and, reportedly, plentiful alcohol, the end result was over a dozen babies born amongst the crew members and one remarkable, ground-breaking animated adventure. The project quickly grew to over 200 enthusiastic animators, all working together in a group effort to promote the ideals of the Beatles, at least as presented in their 1967 classic album Sgt. Some of the staff responsible for the ABC show were behind the Yellow Submarine project, and The Beatles had misgivings.īut if the Beatles were initially indifferent to the idea, the creators of Yellow Submarine were not. The American television network ABC was showing an animated kid’s show called “The Beatles” at the time, its oversimplified sitcom antics disparaged by both critics and the group themselves. While they liked the idea of an animated feature because it was an easy way to fulfill that contract with very little effort on their part, their previous experience with animation had not been a good one. The Beatles were unenthusiastic about Yellow Submarine, the third of their three contractually agreed-upon films. Revisit is a series of reviews highlighting past releases that now deserve a second look.
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