This Was Just So Ahead Of It's Time!!

Rating: 9/10 (10 May 2007)

One has to remember this movie was thrown together before the latest flash in the pan band was forgotten by the fickle record buying public, hence it being in B&W. The big guns didn't think they were worth colour! The movie was well written and well directed, even though Lester had only made advertisements till this movie. But they tried to show a fictional day in the life of the Beatles. The comedy works really well, working off the natural humor within the group, it's all natural from the Beatles themselves with actors playing all the other parts. I understand Paul, who thought with his theatrical background (Dad?) he could act but he was a handful for the director. The impromptu, train carriage scene and eventually recordings in a TV studio/theatre in front of a "live" audience. This was filmed when the usual musical was either a "Elvis" or Cliff Richard" type setting. But the movie when released in '64 was just so fresh, the songs are of the era and now they do sound dated, but it only lasted a couple of years and by the time Let It Be was recorded they had a completely different sound which even today sounds fresh!