Great music, admirable effort, but rambling plot

Rating: 7/10 (28 March 2014)

Jude (Jim Sturgess) is a young shipyard worker from Liverpool who travel to the States to find his unknown American G.I. father. Lucy Carrigan (Evan Rachel Wood) is worried about her boyfriend Daniel going into the Vietnam war. Jude finds his father as a janitor at Princeton University, and befriends Lucy's brother Max (Joe Anderson).
The best part of this movie is the abundance of great Beatles' music. The worst part is the rambling disjointed story. In between, there are the admirable efforts by most of the actors who are usually not the song and dance types. Director Julie Taymor risks it all in a wild clash of bizarre imagery. It probably serves better as separate music videos than a cohesive narrative.