Well worth the wait!

Rating: 9/10 (30 September 2007)

I really enjoyed this movie. It had a few disjointed moments, but was overall very awesome. The puppet sequences looked like they were directly from Bread and Puppets (not surprising, seeing that Julie Taymor apprenticed with the troupe in the 60's!), and caused my daughter to exclaim "hey, there's the cow!" (we had gone to Bread and Puppets in VT for the soul purpose of seeing the puppets after seeing the preview in August).
Although I have at least one review downing the movie, I really liked it and was thrilled to see some of my favorite Beatles tunes incorporated into such a creative story portraying such a diverse period of our history. It was interesting trying to explain everything to my daughter, including why Max would have to hospitalized for drug addiction after returning from the war, and the vivid example of the civil rights race riots that occur early on in the film.
We honestly need more films like this, giving us both the good and the bad points of periods of our history.