An insightful thought provoking comedy, till almost the end

Rating: 7/10 (18 September 2019)

A fantastic idea well executed with some great details and insight. The characters were fun and funny, in a low key British way. I loved the multi racial but still British landscape, also this is one of those rare films with no cartoon baddie verses good set up, there is no real baddie in the movie, (much like miyazaki's totoro and kiki's), and the interest comes from looking into the what ifs more than the unrequited love aspect, which was well done and Lily James was gorgeous and Himesh Patel was suitably oblivious etc, it was needed for the story but it lead to be the rather too neat and tidy focus of the ending, ie it ended up being a love story more than an intriguing sci fi one.
I loved how the story didn't try an make a blackmail aspect to the 'others' story angle, showing Richard Curtis didn't want to go for the obvious with this film, and instead chose fascinating angles to investigate.
And that went right through to the jokes and set ups. The board meeting didn't play it for cliche laughs but those laughs were definitely there.
Ed Sheeran was pretty gracious with laughs at his expense too, the Rap line was great, and he was pretty low key in his delivery.
Just a pleasant fun watch with some great thought provoking set ups and of course a show case for the genius of the Beatles songs, which were on the whole really well delivered. Dan Pemberton soundtrack too to augment an already excellent collection of material.
Pretty much wins all around except for the cheesy romance ending.