"Yes...All You Need is Love With A Trip Back in Time and Magical Music"

Rating: 10/10 (30 September 2007)

ACROSS THE UNIVERSE is a 'magic carpet ride' of incredible music and a love story of a wonderful young man's journey from Liverpool to America and the lessons he learns about real love, suffering and what it takes to find the woman of his dreams-and more. This is a great film and the cinematography is out of this world and Bravo! Julie Taymor for giving us a film you wanted to bring to the screen and not be dominated by the demands of a studio. I loved this film from the opening to the closing frame and it has the magic of ONCE with a dash of HAIRSPRAY in another role played by the incredible Evan Rachel Wood and a fabulous cast of actors and dancers.
Having grown up and come into 'manhood' in the '60's, ACROSS THE UNIVERSE hit home to me with the remembrance of the draft, Berkeley and People's Park, the flower children of San Francisco and like the songs from the Beatles, I kept thinking about the Jefferson Airplanes' WHITE RABBIT and Grace Slick belting out her songs in Golden Gate Park and of course, the powerful songs of Janis Joplin.
I look forward to hopefully seeing ACROSS THE UNIVERSE at Awards Season for a nomination and the pleasure of watching the cast again deliver a breathtaking performance and command of a love story which connected such an important time of events in American history.