YELLOW SUBMARINE A review excerpt by Joe Barlow (c) Copyright 1999, Joe Barlow. All rights reserved.
Yellow Submarine is the spirit of the '60s compressed into ninety minutes of movie magic. I can't think of any other film, before or since, that so completely encapsulates the era in which it was made. For that reason alone, George Dunning's animated musical odyssey would be worth seeing even if it didn't happen to be utterly charming in its own right--a rock and roll Fantasia, if you will.
The plot is ridiculous enough to suit the story's offbeat narrative style. When the benevolent citizens of Pepperland find themselves threatened with impending invasion by the Blue Meanies, a force determined to destroy all joy and music, they send the bumbling Captain Fred (voiced by Lance Percival) away in a magical submarine to find help. Fred, a kindly but incompetent soul, manages to convince Britain's greatest band, the Beatles, to come to Pepperland and help save his beloved utopia from extinction. Along the way, lots of groanably bad puns will be spoken, much silliness will ensue, and some of pop music's loveliest melodies will tumble forth from your speakers.
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