Close to Perfect Comedy

Rating: 9/10 (28 September 2002)

My review of this film makes me think of the time I saw it in college on the big screen for the first time. There was a mormon girl who went with us to see it, and she complained about the Beatles and their drugs and long hair (this was 1987, by the way). She only had negatives to say about them before seeing the film.
After the movie, it was 1964 all over again. She laughed throughout the whole movie, hummed the songs and raided my beatles albums to tape them. Thats how magical a film this is - it is timeless humor, timeless music and such a well made film that it has shamed every musical celebrity vehicle since.