She also addressed herself to the picture's relationship (if any) to marijuana. Their special talent, power and grace, would be of no great importance." Renata Adler, movie critic at the time for The New York Times, observed (11/17/18) that, "It is aĭelicate, friendly, unpretentious film - which, if it did not have the imprimatur of the Beatles, with Of their cartoon likenesses, is a gloriously conceived mod look of the 1960's." That, "It has been said that the British quartet do not speak their own dialogue in this film, but theĪural likeness is so close that it is hard to believe."Ĭue magazine (11/16/68) called the picture "delightful to watch," and said that "Whatĭistinguishes Yellow Submarine, with songs by the Beatles adding merriment to the charm In his view, "George Martin's musical direction and electronic wizardry is a marvel." He pointed out Latter portion of its brief 87 minutes painfully long and pretentiously cute, overplaying its own invention." It also gets stuck with no less than four anti-climaxes which make the Which in effect compromise the plot of Yellow Submarine, the film acquires an exciting variety He commented that, "by assigning individual directors and animation units to a dozen Beatles' songs, The Beatles' style of punning humor and non-sequitur even more vitally than their live action features." In The Hollywood Reporter (7/23/68) John Mahoney wrote that, "Generally, the film captures The cleffing and the songs come to life with the visual verve as well as being easy on the ear." He added that, "George Martin, the Beatles' musical director, has done a smoothly elegant job with Tut-tut the remarkable combo's more way out activities." Sure click with Beatles' fans and the youthful 'pop' audiences and also intrigue those who sometimes It took another six weeks to adjust the optics and modify drawings in order to get Ringoĭaily Variety's reviewer, Rich., predicted (7/23/68) that, "The pic should be a John, Paul and George finally began moving, but Ringo appeared to have a It took six weeks to devise a method to make them move and we were, at first, only Producer Al Brodax was quoted in an interview as explaining, "The figures Īre wildly distorted, thus difficult to move. This is easier to achieve than the movement of angular or rectangular forms. Most reviewers contrasted its style of animation with the olderĭisney's style of animation was based on the use of circles, which enabled his characters to Reviews: Although Yellow Submarine did not do terribly well at the box office, it Film in Color by Deluxe.Ĭast: The Beatles (animated and, in a brief end sequence, live) and the voices of DickĮmery, Lance Percival, Paul Angelus and Sheila Danille. Animation directors: Jack Stokes and Robert E. Original story by Lee Minoff, based on the song Yellow Submarine by John Screenplay by Lee Minoff, Al Brodax, Jack Mendelsohn and Erich A King Features/Subafilms production.ĭirected by George Dunning. From his excellent book, "Beatle Madness" published by Manor Books, 1978.Ī United Artists release.
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