1968 Directed by George Dunning
The Blue Meanies take over Pepperland, draining it of all its color and music, firing anti-music missiles, bonking people with green apples, and turning the inhabitants to stone by way of the pointed finger of a giant blue glove. As the only survivor, the Lord Admiral escapes in the yellow submarine and goes to Liverpool to enlist the help of the Beatles.
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you may as well consider me a nowhere man, because I'm nowhere near understanding how human minds were even capable of this
FUCK THE BLUE MEANIES
don’t ask me what happened in this cause I don’t know but I DO know that I’m picturing myself in a boat on a river with tangerine trees and marmalade skies right now!
trippy and nonsensical and filled with gorgeous artwork and a great collection of beatles songs. I had a lot of fun with this one.
never gonna beat the liking the beatles allegations this is so fucked up this is so sick and twisted fuck this
No drugs went undone during the making of this.
If you love The Beatles, you've probably already seen it. If you haven't, do it. You won't regret it
While the musical segments are obviously the best parts, I really love the witty dialogue, even if I can't understand half of what they're saying most of the time (can someone from Liverpool please translate?)
The ending really made wish I could have watched this in theaters in 1968.
All together now!
Film Club #38 (Pick by zombspy)
Hehehe, I have no idea what's going on.
It's kinda just fun visuals and musical numbers and not much quite beyond that. You can tell that just about everyone, from the animators to the not-Beatles, was completely out of their minds with drugs. I'm still not quite sure how anything got done in the 60s. The Blue Meanie enemy types were cool.
Holy fuck this dialogue delivery is dryer than a saltine in the Sahara. The part where they meet Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band and talk about how their psychological extensions of each other had me in stitches, but that was probably because of the alcohol. What? Did you expect me to watch this sober?
This was my favorite movie in sixth grade and had an enormous impact on my drawing style in middle school. It loses a star for leaving me with a really fucked up sense of perspective. I refuse to take responsibility for that.
Stick around to the end to see the REAL BEATLES giving the kind of performance you usually only see in hostage videos.
It was tough in the beginning. The first 30 minutes or so was just me scratching my head wondering what is happening. Then somewhere in the second act I stopped questioning and just started vibing. I couldn't keep my eyes off the screen. They somehow managed to get me so involved in this nonsensical world and I don't know how they did it. Maybe it was the music. Maybe it was the LSD imagery. Maybe it's Maybelline.
"Hey, that's a funny place to leave a goldfish bowl" - George,
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Animated Ringo is hotter than regular Ringo... just saying.
I'm a little surprised that this film exists. When the meanies attack Pepperland and take it over it's up to the Beatles to fight against the Meanies, and all of their keen weapons like anti-music rockets and stuff like that. Along the way you hear songs from the album Yellow Submarine and it's great. I truly love this sort of animation and I'm not sure why. Everything looks so trippy (maybe I just figured it out) and vibrant.
Now the story itself is basically for children, but what you can enjoy is the dry…
The Beatles defined counterculture in the '60s. The word psychedelic is forever bound to the work of John, Paul, George, and Ringo. The visual style, the melodies, the experimental instrumentation. The euphoria one experiences under the influence of their music (among other substances) demands that reality be broken, shattered into a million pieces, and re-assimilated to form a personal, unique surreality. There's always uncertainty when you question what is real. What is real to you? What is real to the world? To the universe? The answers we may never find, but it may not be answers we need.
All we need is love.
