beatles rocks!

Across the Universe - 4/5 stars


Dir: Julie Taymor (Frida)


This movie is a real darling for anyone who is a Beatles fan. The film characters, the stories, the motivation is all based on all the Beatles song like, I Want to Hold Your Hand, I'm the Walrus, Hey Jude, Let it Be, Something, Strawberry Fields Forever, and many more.

A dock worker Jude travels to America in the 1960s, the period during turbulent years of anti-war protest, the struggle for free speech and civil rights, mind exploration and rock and roll, to find his estranged father. There he falls in love with sheltered American teenager Lucy. When her brother Max is drafted to fight in the Vietnam War, they become involved in peace activism. The social protests that Lucy is involed in threathen to separate their relationship, will their love last?

This is the type of movie you either love it or hate it. I am the sort of person that hate movies musical that pop up and sing during every part of the movie like Phantom of the Opera and Rent, but this is a bold, quirky and visually stunning feature by Julie Taymor. I like the way the songs are not just to act as the "selling point" for this so call Beatles movie, its a movie that stand out as its own. The songs are reproduce to tell the story of all the characters, especially for the song I Wanna Hold your Hand, which turn out to be first sad start to the movie.

This would be a movie that you can watch many times, like a Cd that you love, listen it over and over again, another plus. All the songs in the movie are sang by the actors in the movie. Enjoy the movie.