Joyous and fun romp dealing with a semi-documentary version of life on the road with the Fab Four

Rating: 6/10 (10 January 2019)

Here The Beatles in Their First Full Length, Hilarious Action-Packed Film . This is a very entertaining and funny romp with a sharp and ironic storyline by Owen and nice direction by Richard Lester , shooting without speed limit . A day and a half in the life of the Fab Four (Paul McCartney , Ringo Starr , George Harrison and John Lennon offering a few welcome moments of his acerbic , dry wit) leading up to a studio , in flight from the fanatic fans , managers (Norman Rossington) , and televised concert gig . It starts with the known rock and roll band travelling from their home town of Liverpool to London to perform in a television broadcast . While Paul's Grandpa (Wilfred Brambell) serving as a linking device to connect scenes of the Beatles. Ringo however is arrested and still isn't in the studio half an hour before air time. Soaring in their first, full-length, hilarious, action-packed film! 6 exciting new songs! Their first full length hilarious, action-packed film. The greatest rock & roll comedy adventure .
The Fab Four's first movie is a joyous musical comedy through an ordinary ¨Day in the Life¨ of the Beatles, being their distinguished debut feature with an agreeable line in witty lunacy . Filmed in a pseudo-documentary style with great fair-play and noted as the first movie containing video-clips . Here the Beatles make like Max Sennett with a touch of Marx Brothers , including a paper-thin screenplay about difficulties with their manager and Paul's grandpa on the loose and delivering antics , craziness and mayhem . The boys seem to be constantly on the run and showing a lot of example of wry sense of humor , while escaping from their crazed fans and from their manager, who is constantly trying to rein them in. All 4 flopheads show a deft touch with throwaway joke here and there . The surrealist frames , slastick images and hilarious scenes are legion . The charming best scenes are a chaotic press conference , and a wild as well as wacky fling as the Beatles escape from it all for a few minutes in a field with likeable scenes filmed in relaxed music video style . The popular and wonderful group performs a dozen or so songs. And adding Wilfrid Brambell as Paul's unconventional grandfather who is available for additional comical relief, giving a very sympathetic acting along with Ringo Starr , as the band must rescue them from various misfortunes and misadventures .

The motion picture was originally directed by Richard Lester providing attractive images in its own right , being filmed in his peculiar style coupled with typical surrealist comic touches , being well accompanied by a brilliant cinematography in black and white by Gilbert Taylor . Richard Lester's gimmicky camera-trickery , fast and slow-motion , jump-cuts and it has dated badly . At the beginning Lester directed various Beatles vehicles as ¨How I won the war¨, ¨Help¨ and subsequently made known comedies : ¨The knack¨ ¨A funny thing happened on the way to the room¨, ¨The Ritz¨, ¨The mouse on the moon¨, a satire : ¨The bed sitting room¨ , Adventures : ¨Royal Flash¨ , ¨Robin and Mariam¨, Western : ¨Butch Cassidy and Sundance Kid : the early days¨, and drama : ¨Petulia¨ , ¨Cuba¨ . He got a big success with ¨The Three Musketeers¨ (1973), which he shot simultaneously with ¨The Four musketeers¨ (1974) for producer Ilya Salkind , resurrected his career . When the Salkinds (Ilya and his father Alexander Salkind) were in the midst of filming ¨Superman¨ (1978) simultaneously with its sequel, Lester was hired as a supervising producer, then took over the filming of the sequel, ¨Superman II¨ (1980), when original director Richard Donner was fired . The sequel was a financial and critical success , and he was hired to direct the far-less successful ¨Superman III¨ (1983). At the end of the 1980s, Lester returned to the storyline that had revitalized his career back in the early 1970s, filming a second sequel to "The Three Musketeers" titled : ¨The return of the musketeers¨ . However, after his close friend, actor Roy Kinnear died during the shooting , Lester seemed to lose heart with the movie-making business , he has not directed another film.