You needed a little bit more than love for this, sorry

Rating: 1/10 (4 December 2008)

Well, I did see this with an open mind & I expected that I would like it, but after about an hour I really just felt tired & frustrated & wanted to turn it off. I bravely sat through to the end... I did not think any of the performances were very good & Bono's Timothy Leary caricature was the worst... There wasn't great characterization & the plot was kinda silly in the parts where there was plot at all. Even the music wasn't that great & I love the Beatles. A song like "I want to hold your hand" for example is a rock song but they turned it into a pop ballad, whats more it wasn't quite clear what it had to do with whats going on & even then this jock that it seemed she was infatuated with only lasted one single scene so whats the point? Perhaps it was just to introduce the character of Prudence & yet it provides no characterization that is relevant to any part of the film after this point... Another thing about Bono's Dr. Robert is it was clearly trying to parody a Timothy Leary type character yet there is nothing interesting about his character. From the few minutes we see of him he comes across as an unintelligent drugged-out nobody with nothing to say. There was potential for Dr. Robert to be an intelligent & interesting character but instead he's really just a dumb bong-rat. In conclusion little or no characterization & when it seemed like maybe there was it turned out to be completely useless information as far as things that happened to that character later. There was little or no plot & what little there was were just forced opportunities for bad Beatles covers. I found this film to be songs & dancing strung together with the bare minimum plot & characterization... I did not feel it captured the feel of the 60's at all, maybe some people feel a small buzz of nostalgia merely because the bad covers remind them of the good originals...