The Yellow Submarine movie

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harley babe

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I absolutely loved the movie and I think it's an all-time classic. it got me into the Beatles. I do impress though, the fact that voice actors played the Beatles in the movie. Most of them did a good job: John Clive and Paul Angelis did a good, respectively, John and Ringo. Peter Batten was decent George (although as you know, he turned out to be a deserter of the British army and was arrested), if a little exaggerated ("it's Beatle-paroof"). The one voiced I HATED was Geoffrey Hughes' voice for Paul McCartney. BLOODY AWFUL! ("Soo thoos ooze oo soobmoorooine.")
Anyway, Paul Angelis claimed they they didn't try to imitate the Beatles, but they "simply tried to recreate what they thought were the voices." Do you all think, except for Hughes, that they were successful. I'm just curious.
 
I used to want to see it. But every time I ask people what it's like, they say it's like being on an acid trip.
And that's not what I want to experience when watching a film.
 
I think the actors did a good job of caricaturing the Beatles' voices, although they weren't really convincing. I don't think they were neccesarily supposed to be though... It is a cartoon version after all.

I have the movie on VHS, and after a few months of not watching it, I recall it fondly, but honestly, I can't sit through the whole thing in one sitting. At least, not without fast-forwarding through most of it. I've got a book called The Making of Yellow Submarine, and it gives quite a bit of insight into the production and conception of the film.
 
Not really. You should give it a chance. The plot is reasonably coherent, not that it's logical or anything, and the ending is super hippie stuff with love and flowers conquering all. But it's a fun and mildly comedic little adventure, I think. It's nothing overbearingly artsy; it's sort of a kids' movie at heart.

I've found that people overuse the whole "this is like an acid trip" thing. Any time something is weird they go right to that. This movie really isn't a stream-of-consciousness sort of thing.
 
I used to love "Yellow Submarine" and I watched it all the time when I was younger, my VHS-tape broke and I've never managed to get hold of the DVD.

My favorite characters would be either The Blue Meanie leader or Jeremy (I think that was his name) The Nowhere Man. The flying glove and those guys in tophats that threw giant apples at people were pretty cool too.
 
The only thing I didn't like about the movie was the Elenore Rigby segment. I know they were going for that feel, but it's the single dullest moment in the film.
 
I've seen Yellow Submarine literally dozens upon dozens of times, so much that I haven't been in a hurry to purchase the DVD of the film. The main incentive to get the DVD is so I could see the lost Sea of Consumer Products scene, which incorporated the song "Hey, Bulldog"; for years I wondered why this song was on the soundtrack album when it wasn't in the movie.
 
I found it a little protracted, to be honest, even at only an hour and a half. The visuals were unique and pretty, though. And the Beatles soundtrack helped to make it fun.
 
Yeah, I felt the same way. It really does feel too long. The film-makers even acknowledge this a bit in the book I mentioned.


I've never heard of that Consumer Products bit. The Hey Bulldog song was used in a scene in Pepperland towards the end, where the Beatles and their doubles are hiding in a player piano from the Blue Meanies' goons and their multi-headed bulldog.

Wait a minute, were you joking about the See of Consumer Products?
 
No, I read about that in an article in TV Guide during the anniversary of the movie, when the DVD first came out. (Funny, I've never heard of that scene involving the multi-headed bulldog. Weird. :sweat:)
 
The lost "Hey, Bulldog" sequence takes place just after the Beatles free Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band from the bubble. Both bands and a player piano confuse the heck out of one of the Meanies' four-headed bulldogs.

The TV Guide article must have been wrong.

However, the liner notes on the original "Yellow Submarine" album do refer to a "Sea of Consumer Products." I've always suspected that it's the unnamed area between the Sea of Nowhere and the Sea of Phrenology where the Submarine breaks down and Jeremy Boob fixes it too well. That area contained plates, ceramic statuary, and objects arranged in rows.
 
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