complete garbage (spoiler warning, as if it matters)

Rating: 1/10 (10 March 2008)

this movie was horrible. i erupted in laughter at the scene where this dude goes to enlist in the army and ends up in a weird dance scene with army officials and is then transported to Vietnam where he finds himself under the burden of lady liberty (literally). way to make a joke out of a truly turbulent time...real artistic, guys.
perhaps its because i don't like musicals. perhaps its because as a beatles fan, i was offended by certain interpretations of the songs...
this was an insult. its another fluffy, overly-sentimental, vague glorification of the sixties. i couldn't identify with the flat, upper-class characters, and certainly couldn't identify with another cliché appearance of Hollywood's flower children-- sniveling morons unfairly painted as ignorant, space cadet kids. true, many who engaged in certain recreations of that time were only in it for the wrong reasons, but some participated in the scene to obtain some sort of self-knowledge and worldliness...(which this movie fails to do justice to)
see it if you don't really give a crap about the beatles and love nauseating movies like grease. otherwise, put on sgt. pepper or the white album and close your eyes. thats all the entertainment and sentimentality you will need for a night.