I may be the only one, but I wasn't impressed

Rating: 4/10 (13 October 2007)

I thought Across the Universe was alright, but seriously, nothing to rave about. I felt it dragged on for too long, some of the songs were totally irrelevant to the plot, and almost every actor except for the main 3 were totally pointless, especially Prudence and Bono's character. The acting and singing were both fantastic, but I always get super annoyed when anyone tries to sing Beatles songs. Why mess with perfection? This film also got away with quite a bit for being PG-13... Drugs, nudity, language, etc. It seems to glorify drug use, which I find ignorant. All in all, I felt that this movie would have been much better if they had just gone with the story and not turned it into a musical. Maybe someday I'll come to appreciate more but for now, I'm not impressed.