Bad idea (minor spoiler)

Rating: 3/10 (14 September 2007)

Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band: The Movie was a bad idea then and it's still a bad idea now. I was waiting for Aerosmith or the Bee-Gees to show up throughout this trash fest. It's a wonder Robert Stigwood wasn't involved in it somewhere. Julie Taymor is a pretentious hack. Frida and Titus pretty much give that away. To make matters worse, she made it so completely derivative of Moulin Rouge it even had a pseudo Nichol Kidman and a pseudo Ewan McGreggor in the lead roles. The most laughable scene was her attempt at making "I Wanna Hold Your Hand" into some kind of personal psychedelic head trip. The scene in Detroit moved like an episode of "Cop Rock". Unless you're a die-hard Beatles fan, it's pretty much an embarrassment of excess. 3 stars for the animated sequences, the rest was pretty much drivel.