Period Piece Going Stale | Yellow Submarine | George Dunning (II), John Clive

Loved it! | Yellow Submarine | George Dunning (II), John Clive

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	• Yellow Submarine George Dunning (II), John Clive MGM (Video & DVD), 1999 average customer review:based on 329 reviews view larger image
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highly recommended

Good clean musical fun

Being more of a jazz fan, I bought this video for my kids aged 7 and 4. This is a very refreshing video that has my kids skipping around our house singing "Nowhere Man" or "Hey Bulldog". I was sceptical at first because I assumed there might be inappropriate references but I was pleasantly surprised that it was clean amusement pitting the Beatles vs. the Blue Meanies. Quite frankly, every kid should see the Blue Meanies crumble to the sounds of "All you need is Love". If only there was more love....

Period Piece Going Stale

When this animated movie appeared, we were so young then, and it was fresh and fun. Seeing it in, ahem, enhanced consciousness, made it a Wonderland; however, viewing my copy recently, I realized how limited, how stale, it had become. Time can be cruel. The film has become an archive or museum piece, an exemplar of the hippie era with Peter Max-like imagery and although not voiced by them, other than songs, a work associated with our hero musicians. Some portions do remain fun but others drag on and on, and the many puns are no longer cute. Once rated *****, Yellow Submarine from a contemporary perspective of design and animation is quickly becoming quaint. On the other hand, for an insight into an era's ethos, its culture and social sensitivity, the film is a scholarly treasure.

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Loved it!

It actually brought me back into the memory when I was young and I watched it only once... It was awesome!! Nice quality, sounds quality and everything!

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Yellow Submarine Takes Me Back

Enjoyed watching this movie again after all these years. Especially enjoyed all the music.

Fun movie, but this release has formatting problems

This is a great movie, still, but those with widescreen TVs must beware that this DVD was not formatted properly: On a widescreen TV it will display with bars all the way around the picture. This problem is easily overcome if your player has a "zoom" feature. But if you try to play it in the mode which fills the screen, it will looked stretched, and still have bars above and below. I've seen this problem before, and it's a formatting issue, not a player problem. The pity is, so many of us have widescreen TVs anymore, and no one has addressed the problem. By contrast, A Hard Day's Night, a much older issue, works fine for widescreen.

That said, this is a beautiful restoration of a fun old movie, even if it is the British version, not the American: The sound is wonderful. The difference between the British and American versions is minor, but you can still get the latter on VHS. Maybe someday someone will see fit to issue a two DVD set with both versions of the film, and the formatting issues solved.

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This restored, animated valentine to the Beatles offers viewers the rare chance to see a work that's been substantially improved by its technical facelift, not just supersized with extra footage. Recognizing that its song-studded soundtrack alone makes Yellow Submarine a video annuity, United Artists has lavished a frame-by-frame refurbishment of the original feature, while replacing its original monaural audio tracks with a meticulously reconstructed stereo mix that actually refines legendary original album versions.

What emerges is a vivid time capsule of the late '60s and a minor milestone in animation. The music represents the quartet's zenith--Rubber Soul, Revolver, and Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band. The story line, cobbled together by producer Al Brodax and a committee of writers, is a broad, feather-light allegory set in idyllic Pepperland, where the gentle citizens are threatened by the nasty, music-hating Blue Meanies and their surreal arsenal of henchmen, with the Beatles enlisted to thwart the bad guys. Visually, designer Heinz Edelmann mixes the biomorphic squiggles, day-glo palette, and Beardsley-esque portraits of Peter Max with rotoscoped still photographs and film; Edelmann's animated collages also nod to Andy Warhol and Magritte in properly psychedelic fashion, which works wonderfully with such terrific songs.

High orthodox Beatlemaniacs can still grouse that the animated Fab Four are (literally) flat archetypes, but that's missing the sheer bloom of the music or the giddy, campy fun of the visuals. Making sense of the story is second to submerging blissfully in the sights and sounds of this video treat. --Sam Sutherland

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