![]() ![]() Now we’re quickly cutting between what appears to be The Enchantment Under The Sea Dance from Back To The Future and The Cavern in Liverpool to show what courting was like on both sides of the Atlantic in the mid-sixties, before cutting to Sturgess at work on Liverpool Docks. We’re treated to a brief montage of crashing waves, race riots, anti-war demonstrations and police brutality set to a throaty version of Helter Skelter (more of that later), before a vision of Evan Rachel Wood’s Lucy appears to calm it all down. We open on Jim Sturgess singing Girl while sitting cross-legged on a bleak, windy beach looking like James Blunt in one of his videos and sounding exactly like Ewan McGregor in Moulin Rouge, then he turns and smoulders right down the lens… careful, folks, it’s getting hot in here! I do remember watching it in don’t recall a great deal about it except Izzard, Bono, a silver hammer and a lovely final shot, so let’s see how it holds up…Īs always, the Late Review will be a scene-by-scene account of the film, so if you don’t want to read any spoilers, go ahead and skip to the next heading!Įven though I’ve seen this before, I had no recollection of it being written by Dick Clement and Ian LaFrenais (with Julie Taymor) – they’re two of the biggest names in British television comedy in the Twentieth Century (they wrote Porridge, The Likely Lads and Auf Wiedersehen, Pet, among many others), but I don’t remember this being funny. I’ve also been a big fan of Eddie Izzard for years, and reading she was appearing in a Beatles-themed musical pretty much sold me on it. ![]() It wasn’t a big enough phase to go see it at the cinema, mind. Put simply, I went through a big Beatles phase in my late twenties and this jukebox musical came out at just the right time. The bonus material includes a stack of featurettes, some rehearsal footage, a commentary, photo gallery, trailers and live performances by the cast.Īll things considered, a decent haul, but I guarantee I’ve never sat through it all. Play it loud enough, it keeps the demons at bay.” The DiscĪnother two-disc edition, with a striking, visual cover – a bright red strawberry on a starry background with the lovers in the centre. ![]() “Music’s the only thing that makes sense anymore, man. ![]()
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