See this movie with your heart and not with your brain.

Rating: 9/10 (16 August 2011)

I feel very sorry for the people that gave this movie low scores and wrote bad reviews. My advice to them is that they should try to see life also with their heart and not only with the brain. The heart is what makes us human not the brain.
A movie does not need to be "historicaly accurate", or perfectly narrated, or with a perfect script or music. It has to touch you inside, and touch me it did. Yea, the music is not Beatles original, is sung by the actors, but they do a pretty decent job and i enjoyed some of the changed parts of the music. There are different interpretations sung by the actors which are not so bad. In fact it's pretty awesome the way they sing as they are mostly unknown actors.
No, I wasn't there to witness those times, and probably it wouldn't matter anyway because what most people here do not understand is that this is not a documentary, it is an interpretation of a historical time and events seen from director's point of view. This is his version of the reality, and it really does not matter if it was like this or not.
I bet there are lots of Beatles or Vietnam documentaries out there for you to watch, but they're not touching any spot, they just present facts. So go see them if that's what you really want. In fact the interesting fact is that most reviews are marks 1-2 or 9-10. So this movie clearly is a "love it/hate it" type. Therefore if you do not like the first 10 minutes of the movie you probably will hate it entirely.
I did saw some good resemblance with Forrest Gump in this movie. However the perspective is changed and this is good, or else it would've been just another re-edit of a great movie made bad. I am an architect and an artist inside, so i have appreciated very much the retro style, the crazy colors, the madness and cartoonish style mixed with dancing singing etc. I'd say that it's crazy but it is not. In fact for me it made a lot of sense and a needed change of style as today's movies tend to be all the same.
A 9 from me, because i felt I should raise a bit the unfair scores from the other users. In my opinion this movie is worth a decent 6,5 or even 7, and that is because at some parts it loses focus and has some unnecessary parts just for the music's sake. Also, it is very predictable, but that is less important as this is not really an action movie. For me it felt more like a collection of music videos binded together by a story which in this context is less important.
Cheers!