Just What the World Needed...

Rating: 1/10 (21 February 2009)

...a remake of Sergeant Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band (1978). A pretentious, overblown collection of songs sung by non-actors, in a flimsy, incoherent plot and pace which I suppose one could say is a homage to the hippie movies of the 60s, although the driving force here might be lack of creativity rather than chemical ingestion. Anyone looking to base a school report on the Times That Were a Changing by watching this might also want to consult Species II for their biology essay and Timeline for their physics exam. Nice to know the remaining Beatles will be living the rest of their lives in comfort by selling out their songs to this movie. I was really worried about them.