![]() ![]() So coming back to it as an adult, I’m surprised the film didn’t give me a craving for LSD at the age of eight. Really, if it was up to me I’d just give you a series of still images from the film to explain it all. Just as a visual cacophony of colourful sound and images, it works it’s probably used a brainwashing technique by somebody, somewhere. In the Sea of Monsters, Ringo is chased by several creatures of various descriptions, before a big sucker monster comes and eats them all, and eventually eats reality itself. Jeremy is frequently called a boob John Lennon is apparently Frankenstein’s monster in the Sea of Time, everybody is aged and de-aged to their opposite extremes, naturally while they sing “When I’m Sixty-Four”. I think it’s easy to see why I liked it at a child – it had the Beatles and funny cartoon shenanigans. This is the most succinct synopsis I can muster, but you should know that through every little section of the film comes songs, crazy nonsense and some truly absurd comedy. Here they meet Jeremy Hillary Boob Ph.D, the Nowhere Man, a manic poet Ewok munchkin being who joins them, and they use their musical talents to save Pepperland and live happily ever acid. He calls on the Beatles to help him save Pepperland and restore music to his homeland, and they travel in the submarine through the Sea of Time, Monsters, Holes, and at one point, nothing at all. A man called Fred manages to escape in the yellow submarine that rests on top of a pyramid, and he flies through the opening credits to land in Liverpool. The film opens in Pepperland, a green, joyous country with perpetual dancing and music, as it is being invaded by the Blue Meanies, who despise music, attack with paralyzing apples and the Dreadful Flying Glove, and only accept “no” as an answer. Yellow Submarine appealed to me most as a child because it was a cartoon, but that only aids the film as the craziest of all the Beatles films, and one which, when I watched it as an adult for the first time,makes me wonder what kind of mad childhood I must’ve had to have worshipped this…. A Hard Day’s Night was the most level-headed, a madcap chronicle of the band’s tour Help saw them facing off against an evil cult and I have pretty much no real recollection of what Magical Mystery Tour is about, if indeed it’s about anything. The music itself aside, their films are wonderfully eclectic, often making little-to-no sense but always vastly entertaining due to the personalities of the Fab Four themselves. ![]() I’ve held them dear for my entire life, will argue at length with anybody who tries to criticise their music wholesale, and have often utilised them for wonderfully vengeful purposes (it’s simple, if you put on bad music in Jim’s Bar, I am going to put on Revolution #9 several times).
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