Friday, June 27, 2008

Across the Universe

Synopsis: Beatles-based Musical.
Review: Do you like the Beatles? Do you like this dude on the right? How 'bout, do you like this dude opening the movie by staring directly at you singing a sad song? Do you you do mushrooms or crystal meth? If you answered yes to all four of these questions, you may like this movie.
A few positives of this movie: a) it's the Beatles b) the no-direction, everybody-do-whatever-you-want, man-am-I-trippin' feel is kinda unique and c) it's the Beatles.
Even though I'm known to like musicals, I wasn't a big fan of this one. Main problem is writing a movie for songs that already exist. I know Broadway has seen success with Abba and Billy Joel, but the story line gets too choppy and becomes irrelevant...it's like a really long music video where you don't know what the hell is going on. Who's this? Who's that?
To be honest, I didn't finish this one. But to illustrate some of the randomness of the show, take a look at the floating chick in pic 2. What the fuh? Is she doing the crane kick?
Rating: 4.5 out of 10

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