Fresh
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.
Michael Sauter, Entertainment Weekly
Yellow Submarine
It's all in the mind y'know!
1968 · 1h 30m · G
Adventure, Animation, Comedy, Fantasy, Music
Directed by
George Dunning
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Yellow Submarine
Overview
The wicked Blue Meanies take over Pepperland, eliminating all color and music. As the only survivor, the Lord Admiral escapes in the yellow submarine and journeys to Liverpool to enlist the help of the Beatles.
Director and cast
- George Dunning Director
- Paul Angelis as Ringo Starr / Chief Blue Meanie / George / Narrator (voice)
- John Clive as John Lennon (voice)
- Dick Emery as Jeremy Hillary Boob, Ph.D. - Nowhere Man / Lord Mayor / Max (voice)
- Geoffrey Hughes as Paul McCartney (voice) (as Geoff Hughes)
- Lance Percival as Old Fred (voice)
- Peter Batten as George (voice) (uncredited)
- George Harrison as George (uncredited)
- John Lennon as John (uncredited)
- Paul McCartney as Paul (uncredited)
- Ringo Starr as Ringo (uncredited)
Critics on Rotten Tomatoes
Top critics, in their words
96%
Tomatometer
Fresh
Here are all the ingredients of a novel entertainment.
Variety Staff, Variety
Fresh
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.
Lisa Alspector, Chicago Reader
Rotten
The animation is imaginatively conceived, but stiffly executed.
Dave Kehr, Chicago Reader
Fresh
There's such a wide disparity of graphic styles from sequence to sequence. Some of them, though, still look terrific.
Tony Rayns, Time Out
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