Tasteless Comedy...

Rating: Null/10 (11 February 2002)

...but damn its funny.
Over the many years of my life (16 in total) I have heard much about this famous quartet from the industrial town of Liverpool. As my family have told me, they were the biggest thing around at their time. They started the whole "pop video" idea and the whole "screaming girls" craze. In my own assumption, i figured that this was just a poofy boy band, but after watching this film I was proven wrong.
The satire is very over the top, but that is why I love it. The whole film promotes The Beatles just before they released their new album called..believe it or not, "A hard days night". The plot portrays the band as a bunch of goody goodies but also with a rebellious side towards the old generations. We also see a scene where the band actually read their fan mail and replies to each one, which obviously is not the case, but this is cleverly done, fooling the general public to write letters to the band.
The manager is a very easy man, relaxed but still on his toes. In real life cases, The Beatles manger is nothing like this, he was a stern man and didnt let the playing around of The Beatles pass him by.
In whole this film is cleverly put together. A hard days night put the whole British Film Industry under the spotlight. In later years we also see the failures of many other bands trying to achieve such a success in a film, to the likes of "Spice World", which was very poor. Lets hope that one day the BFI can come up with a similar and successful alternative to The Beatles hit.