THE Beatles movie

Rating: Null/10 (14 February 2004)

This is a funny, still enjoyable document of the lives of the Fab Four during the Beatlemania. I love this film because it doesn't want to be a conventional one. There isn't the pretension of turning the Beatles into actors -they weren't. "A hard day's night" is a documentary with some acting, it shows them as themselves, with music and some gags. That's it.
This is THE real and only Beatles movie, for me. "Help!" (made one year later) makes a step further. We have the Beatles in Technicolor but the film is not as spontaneous as the previous, furthermore the story is silly. "Magical Mystery Tour" is a long musical clip made for TV in '67 -it can't be considered as a movie-; "Yellow Submarine" is a cartoon -apart from the soundtrack the Beatles weren't involved in that project-. "Let it be" is a sad documentary about group's final days.