Yellow Submarine
The music-loving inhabitants of Pepperland are under siege by the Blue Meanies, a nasty group of music-hating creatures. The Beatles agree to accompany Captain Fred in his Yellow Submarine and go to Pepperland to free it.
18 June 1942, Liverpool, Merseyside, England, UK
18 January 1943, Liverpool, England, UK
26 July 1933, Sevenoaks, Kent, England, UK
7 July 1940, Liverpool, Merseyside, England, UK
25 February 1943, Liverpool, Merseyside, England, UK
6 January 1933, London, England, UK
9 October 1940, Liverpool, Lancashire, England, UK
2 February 1944, Wallasey, Cheshire, England, UK
19 February 1915, Bloomsbury, London, England, UK
June 08, 2012
Whether it was a case of inspiration or coincidence, most of Yellow Submarine's more creative and graceful visuals are those that complement the songs.
September 04, 2008
If the result seems less a coherent story than a two-hour pot high, Submarine is still a breakthrough combination of the feature film and art's intimacy with the unconscious.
June 24, 2006
There's such a wide disparity of graphic styles from sequence to sequence. Some of them, though, still look terrific.
June 06, 2012
even without the Beatles-endorsed drugs of the time, it's still fascinating to watch
December 08, 2014
An endlessly inventive picture that blends 1960s psychedelia with such diverse styles as pop art and Art Deco to create the fantastical world of Pepperland and its bizarre inhabitants.
December 08, 2014
Sure, some of the puns and in-jokes sound a little dated, but any movie that strings together lines from Shakespeare merely as a throwaway comic riff is, in my book, a film for the ages.
September 06, 2007
Here are all the ingredients of a novel entertainment.
June 22, 2012
A unique and often brilliant animated film that pictures the Beatles as towering and often god-like gentlemen who have the power to change worlds...
September 06, 2007
The animation is imaginatively conceived, but stiffly executed.
June 05, 2012
The 1968 animated classic by the Beatles as their declaration of independence.
September 06, 2007
This 1968 Beatles musical gets somewhat plot heavy near the end, but it's a marvel of innocence and free association, blending several animation techniques in a loose narrative full of gentle bad puns and flowing visual segues.
