A day in the lives of our projected youth!

Rating: 7/10 (12 March 2014)

Up until A Hard Days Night, musical pop star movies were a combination of schmaltz and rotating guests that were forced upon the director and audiences alike. Frankly, they are painful to watch, if only because they were so dated prior to release. While AHDN certainly has the usual movie schmaltz, it has three distinct elements that propelled it to our DVD history shelves. We were given silly editing of the song clips leading up to the TV show taping assuring eternal Beatle love for not taking themselves too seriously. We have the fab four delivering the quick witted, somewhat silly delivery of the schmaltz! We have live performance captured in that unique style that slammed Richard Lester as the grandfather of MTV. Each part has its' fingerprints on modern musics' video delivery There's no denying that the supporting cast are simply stooges, the dialog is forced and the delivery is about as natural as plastic, but we have our idealistic youth, real or not, captured in a time vault accompanied by a soundtrack that we all know by heart.