Others, however, were such die-hard fans of the group that I honestly think a sizable minority would have loved the film if it consisted of the Fab Four picking each others' noses for 60 minutes. Some hated the film or saw it as a disappointment. In between some terribly unfunny comedy bits, there are a few music videos and in many ways it seems like a much, much lower budgeted version of Paul McCartney's later vanity film, "Give My Regards to Broad Street".Īs I sat watching this film, I looked through some of the IMDb reviews. It's all a rather incoherent stream of consciousness piece that looks like the four guys just chucked ANYTHING into the film-and in some cases, I am pretty sure this is what happened. If I try to describe the film's plot, I really can't. So badly that the film wasn't shown on American TV-which made me curious to watch it! I occasionally like to watch film failures-either to marvel at how bad they are or to re-assess and see that they weren't so bad after all. In fact, when this made for TV film was shown on BBC, it bombed.badly. It just goes to show you that not everything about the Beatles was adored. When this DVD began, I was surprised how degraded and faded the film was. Reviewed by MartinHafer 2 / 10 If anyone other than the Beatles would have done this, it today would be seen as a complete disaster. You can make the rest of it up in your head. You'll catch them in their psychedelically inspired costumes from the era, with about half the tunes from the "Magical Mystery Tour" record, but in my opinion, the picture diminishes the brilliance of the album, so if one has a choice, go with just the music. Starkey and appears at least to be a character in the story, accompanied by his Aunt Jess (Jessie Robins), while Paul, John and George fulfill their roles as passengers but not much else, except for the songs they deliver throughout. The story basically involves the Magical Mystery Tour bus careening around the countryside with it's passengers getting on and off at various points for who knows what, among them a gibberish spouting army sergeant and a quartet of midget wrestlers going through their motions. This was primarily Paul McCartney's project back during the Beatles' heyday, but it almost looks like there was no one in control of the film at all. If you're a hard core Beatles fan you'll probably want to catch this picture at least once, but if not, you could fast forward your way through it and not miss a thing. Reviewed by classicsoncall 4 / 10 ".and already the magic is beginning to work."
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