I can't get enough of this film!

Rating: 10/10 (4 September 2008)

I first saw the trailer when I went to see another movie and I remember saying "I need to see that" then I never heard anything else about it. I'm guessing it had a limited theater release. I happened to finally see it on Starz on Demand and I was blown away! As soon as it was over I hit start over and watched it again.
The music is great. All the actors sing so it's not cheesy lip syncing. It's not the typical musical mainly because it's Beatles music. Each song is specific to the scene, so instead of the characters giving the exposition in the form of dialog, it comes in the form of a song. The songs are great, because they're different. They've all been altered to fit the mood of the scene. It sounds like it would be blasphemous to alter music that's already great, but in this film it really works.
The visuals are stunning. There are some scenes in which the visuals fit so well it's uncanny. The one with the draft office and then the nurse scene are just spot on in the way the graphics relay the underlying message. Don't want to spoil anything so I'll leave it at that, but add that if this movie had been done with an IMAX 3-D version it would have been a blinder! The cast is perfect! Everyone just *fits* their role and they all play their character so well. I also really appreciated that it wasn't full of big bill celebrities. There were a few people that made you say "oh wasn't he/she in that one movie...oh what was it???" you know how that goes? Even the big name cameos made you look twice and say "Was that really Joe Cocker?"
All in all two thumbs up. I loved it. I'm watching it again (for the ...well I lost count how many times now) right now. =D