Nice premise which doesn't quite come together

Rating: 3/10 (27 June 2019)

Not to be confused with the South African movie of the same name. Our hero is an Indian gentleman named Jack Malik. He can sing a little and plays guitar (mostly on the streets of London). The movie starts with this street busker who somehow possesses a manageress (played by the pretty Lily James (Zombies) who is actually his childhood sweetheart.
Jack unfortunately has the charisma of an insect compared to the real Beatles who all were bursting at the seams with stage presence and charisma. Fact is they could attribute part of their world-wide fame to having oodles of charm coupled with some great song writing skills and great harmonies.
Our hero sits with a few problems. He isn't making headway with his attempts at forging a musical career and he doesnt know how to express his love to his bff/manageress. It would take a consultation with a dead Beatle (somehow resurrected in this new dimension to which Jack gets transported) to put him on the "write" track with some sage advice.
A collision with a vehicle and a power outage somehow sees Jack transported to another dimension. Another realm where no-one has yet heard of
the fab four. No-one that is except a select few people who accompanied Jack into this other realm. How is possible is never explained.
A recurring, and rather flat, joke is one about Coca-cola. Apparently Coca-cola ("He shoot Coca-cola") has never been heard of here either.
Jack can't be doing too badly as he has money for expensive dental surgery to replace his broken front teeth
No one has heard of the Beatles in this other dimension he enters, so Jack decides to record the Beatle catalogue and present it as his own.
For a guy who was a Beatle fan it's seems strange he forgets the words to Nowhere Man. He also struggles a lot with the words to Eleanore Rigby but has no problem remembering and playing all the chords. Speaking of chords, you never see him playing any lead guitar parts like George Harrison (whose name appears surprisingly in the closing credits).
This movie stretched the limits of credibility to a high degree. Ed Sheeran presence does little to recue this dross from the doldrums. In one scene an impromtu writing music challenge between Ed and Jack shows Ed who "beats all".
At the end he informs his audience (thousands of them at Wembley stadium) he is actually a fraud and had been plagiarising all his hits. Not that the admission ever hurt musicians in the past (eg Led Zeppelin who
practically built a career on doing other people's stuff, like Willie Dixon's, without any consent).
I score this movie 3 out of 10 stars. Recommended for
love-lorne teens (the movie has an underlying romantic theme) but serious Beatle fans will leave a little unfulfilled.
Sanjeev Bhaskar (The Kumars) provides little comedic relief. He plays Jack's proud father (who also has no memory of the Beatles).
The one song I truly loved appeared over the credits. The real Beatles singing "Hey Jude" (not "Hey Dude" as Jack did).