Across the Universe (Two-Disc Special Edition)
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Movie Reviews of Across the Universe (Two-Disc Special Edition)
Movie Review: Across the Universe
Summary: 5 Stars
This movie is great you'll find yourself singing along and singing to the songs long after the movies over. The Beatles will always the greatest! Movie Review: "You say you want a revolution..."
Summary: 5 Stars
Across the Universe is a colorful and turblent tale of love and war in the late 1960s. Evan Rachel Wood and Jim Sturgess play Lucy and Jude who fall in love during the midst of the Vietnam War. This is a musical and all the songs are Beatles classics like Strawberry Fields Forever, If I Fell, Happiness Is a Warm Gun, I Am the Walrus, I've Just Seen A Face, and many many more. The acting and singing is superb and the plot works perfectly with the Beatles fun and moving lyrics. Look for cameos by Bono, Joe Cocker, and Salma Hayek. My favorite music number is I Want You (She's So Heavy) featuring a great new face Joe Anderson. I highly recommend this tripped-out, hippie love gem, enjoy!!Movie Review: Across the Universe - Blu-ray Info
Summary: 3 Stars
Version: U.S.A / Region A, B, C
Aspect ratio: 2.40:1
MPEG-4 AVC BD-50
Running time: 2:13:17
Movie size: 30,38 GB
Disc size: 48,41 GB
Average video bit rate: 23.65 Mbps
Dolby TrueHD 5.1 48kHz/24-bit English
DD AC3 448 Kbps Spanish / Portuguese
Number of chapters: 16
Subtitles: English / English SDH / French / Spanish / Portuguese / Chinese / Korean / Thai
#Audio Commentary
#Featurette
--Creating the Universe (HD, 29 minutes)
--Stars of Tomorrow (HD, 27 minutes)
--All About the Music (HD, 15 minutes)
--Moving Across the Universe (HD, 15 minutes)
--FX of the Universe (HD, 9 minutes)
#Extended Musical Performances (HD, 35 minutes)
#Deleted Scene (HD, 1 minute)
#Still Gallery (HD)
Movie Review: Sadly Disappointed
Summary: 2 Stars
After seeing the previews for Across the Universe I was instantly mesmerized and excited to see the movie. I put it on my Amazon.com wishlist hoping that someone would buy it for me --anticipating the bright colorful scenes set along to Beatles music...after all, I'm a big fan of the Beatles and I like musicals.
I rented the movie from NetFlix, and within the first half-hour I was disappointed, but I stuck it out. I thought that it must get better; I was wrong.
The dialoge was trite...almost like a joke. After the arrival of 'Prudence' we get, "Where'd she come from?" "She came in through the bathroom window." Yeah, we get it, it's a Beatles song.
The characters were *cutely* named after Beatles songs and frequently broke out into hokey melodies throughout the movie. I like musicals, and I realize they get hokey at times, but this one just made me keep rolling my eyes.
The vocal arrangements of most of the songs were disappointing. Some of the harmonies were nice, and I enjoyed the rocking versions by the Janis-Joplin-esque Sadie.
The storyline was shallow with serious lack of character development. I might have liked this movie more when I was 12 and had lower expectations out of movies.
The best parts of the movie are the ones that are just musical/phychedellic visuals. If these portions only had been paired with better vocal/instrumetal versions of the songs -with no attempt at having a plot-- it would have been better.
Instead, songs ended, cheesy dialogue resumed, and I was reminded each time that, 'oh yeah, there's supposed to be a plot here.'
Overall, this movie was disjointed and poorly executed. The idea had potential. Before I finished watching the movie, I had removed this flick from my Amazon.com wishlist because I honestly couldn't tolerate watching it again. I'm surprised at the volume of 5-star ratings on here because the movie, to me, just wasn't that good.
Movie Review: The Sound of The Beatles
Summary: 5 Stars
Musical: From Broadway to Hollywood
Shadow Watcher
Nobody Drowns in Mineral Lake
If you enjoy movie musicals, as well as the music of The Beatles, then I strongly recommend that you take a look at this marvelous film.
The extremely talented Julie Taymor, of Broadway's THE LION KING fame, directed what is essentially an operetta, containing about 30 songs from The Beatles' catalog.
[Sadly, my personal favorite, "Yesterday." is not among them.]
Nevertheless, this is one terrific, quite experimental, picture, filled with visually stunning musical numbers and a virtually unknown cast headed by Evan Rachel Wood, Jim Sturgess and Joe Anderson. It's plot is a multiple-character love story set against the turbulent 1960s.
One of the musical highlights of the movie is a cameo performance by Eddie Izzard, who shot his musical number "live," because it was mostly impromptu. In fact, for a special treat, be sure to take a look at the "extras" on this 2-disc set, particularly a pair of alternate takes on Izzard's number.
Salma Hayek, Bono and Joe Cocker also make brief, albeit notable, cameo appearances.
- Michael B. Druxman, author of ONCE UPON A TIME IN HOLLYWOOD (available December 2008)