There are plenty of music movies from the 1960s, 70s, and 80s that give the impression that most involved in making it were on drugs. If I had to put money on which music-themed movie had the most drugs consumed during its production, I'd pick Magical Mystery Tour.
I have a vague feeling I saw this when I was younger - like, 15+ years ago. Watching it now gave me an eerie feeling.
Also, every Beatle looks zonked out of their mind:
This feels like a significantly worse version of both A Hard Day's Night and Help!, maybe because it's shorter and lower budget, but also maybe because the Beatles themselves didn't look like they cared about the movie.
At least they cared about the music! Magical Mystery Tour's a great album, so the film of the same name has great music. And some of it's entertaining and wacky in the way that lesser Monty Python skits sort of border on enjoyable. Other times, it feels like a bad trip - the energy here made me really uncomfortable at points, but uh... at least it's interesting.
I have a vague feeling I saw this when I was younger - like, 15+ years ago. Watching it now gave me an eerie feeling.
Also, every Beatle looks zonked out of their mind:
- Paul runs around a field, then a beach, then stands on the edge of a cliff. I was worried he was going to fall off, even though I knew he wouldn't, seeing as I saw him live 50 years later (don't give me any of that "Paul is actually dead" conspiracy stuff).
- John Lennon feels like he's literally asleep for much of the runtime.
- George Harrison is being a good boy and remaining neither seen nor heard for long stretches of this movie.
- Ringo is just being regular old Ringo at least.
This feels like a significantly worse version of both A Hard Day's Night and Help!, maybe because it's shorter and lower budget, but also maybe because the Beatles themselves didn't look like they cared about the movie.
At least they cared about the music! Magical Mystery Tour's a great album, so the film of the same name has great music. And some of it's entertaining and wacky in the way that lesser Monty Python skits sort of border on enjoyable. Other times, it feels like a bad trip - the energy here made me really uncomfortable at points, but uh... at least it's interesting.