Disappointing

Rating: 3/10 (17 September 2007)

Visually and creatively this was a beautiful film. The costumes, sets, and images were very impressive, but it felt like the creators of this film spent too much time making it look good and forgot to work on this story.
I happen to like movie/musicals, or whatever you call them, when the characters sing their lines. Being a HUGE Beatles fan this was a no brainer. I was 100% positive I'd love this movie. I didn't. I actually felt bored. The story supposedly was to capture the feel of that era and use song to tell the story. The songs one after the other just didn't seem to make sense. It felt just completely plugged in there serving no purpose; "dear prudence" and the obligatory "hey jude" (which of course was the title characters name).
The story itself; the rich family with the passionate daughter protesting the war after her boyfriend is killed and her drop out brother is drafted and her English boyfriend who is a man without a country, and lacks purpose or direction. It all just seems extremely tired. If you want to see (in my opinion) an amazing, fun, and interesting Movie/musical about this time rent "Hair". It's fun, it tells a great story, and the soundtrack is amazing and moves the story forward. The songs are placed appropriately and seem necessary to tell the story and move it forward.
I give credit to Taymar for creating a beautiful film, but it just wasn't a great film.