Very enjoyable

Rating: 9/10 (17 July 2019)

This was a good, clean, fun and unpretentious movie. I enjoyed the music, of course, and appreciate the premise of the story - what if you woke up one day to discover that beloved cultural icons had never existed?
The story - talented aspiring singer/songwriter and Beatles fan wakes up in a world where nobody has ever heard of The Beatles. Other cultural icons have also strangely disappeared, and those are interspersed throughout the movie for mild comic effect. So what do you do? Well if you are an aspiring songwriter, you pretend you wrote the songs and let it take you to fame and fortune. Except, of course, there is always the worry that someone, some day, will find you out. The main character remains likeable throughout the story, never quite resting easy and never completely forgetting about the people who believed in.
It's light comedy, and even lighter on the romance. Yes, there's a boy and a girl; and yes, you want them to get together. But the story is not entirely dependent on it, and there's a nice cast of supporting friends and family who add flavor.
And, of course, overlaying all of this is the great music from The Beatles, which the movie, very happily, does not stint on. The budget for the rights alone must have been huge. And our guy can actually sing and does John, Paul, George and Ringo proud.
It all makes for a lovely and entertaining afternoon at the movies, and that's more than I can say for a lot of movies these days.