Entertaining if you don't think too hard

Rating: 7/10 (10 July 2019)

The difficulty with imagining a world which never had The Beatles is - there was more to them than just the music. They were a cultural phenomenon as much as a musical one; "All You Need Is Love" crystallised the attitudes of an era, it wasn't just a song. A world without that would not simply be the same world as today without the song.
Well, this is a movie, it aims to entertain and it certainly does that. The songs are well presented, although again showing it was the chemistry of the four that really made them work - Jack and his backing band really can't do "I Wanna Hold Your Hand" like John, Paul, George and Ringo. On a personal note, the film has made family history because my wife: a) wanted to go to the cinema to see it, and; b) she actually enjoyed the experience. That makes about 5 cinema trips together in 32 years of marriage - how we ever got together I will never know (but I'm glad we did).