Why using the Beatles' mythology?

Rating: 1/10 (7 January 2008)

Across the Universe in not a good movie. In fact is not a movie at all. What I watched was a 2 hours spot about The Beatles, one of the greatest bands in history of rock whose legacy is reduced to a bunch of cheesy pseudo hippies singing their songs. Using Take That's legacy would have been very much appropriate.
There is no such thing as story in ATU. The characters were unidimensional, naive and bad acted. At the end of the film I still didn't know whether the movie was about love, politics, music or just colors flowing in the screen. The cameos, the poor recreation of Beatle's mythology and the use of every single cliché about the 60's (Janis Joplin and Hendrix sadly included) reflect the lack of original ideas.
The movie is empty and quite painful for real Beatles' fans.