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Across the Universe
In a different romance story, the story begins during the Vietnam War, a controversial period. Through Beatles, a top-class girl falls in love with an artist man in a sudden way. Maybe things will change completely, as that story seems to change the idea of class and racism.
9 November 1985, Michigan, USA
April 7, 1972 in Englewood, New Jersey, USA
7 October 1959, Syracuse, New York, USA
20 May 1944, Sheffield, Yorkshire, England, UK
27 December 1985, Fort Myers, Florida, USA
November 06, 2008
Visually and thematically audacious...
August 02, 2008
chooses cheesy and nostalgic mis-en-scene over meaningful engagement with the musical material. A terrible disappointment.
September 28, 2007
Across the Universe is a classic example of ambition exceeding execution.
March 29, 2009
The actors all do considerable justice to the Fab Four's classics, but they are ultimately failed by Taymor's neglect of actual story.
April 10, 2008
'Across the Universe' is whimsical silliness, imaginatively constructed but precious and gratingly excessive.
October 05, 2007
Across the Universe isn't beholden to any stage incarnation. It owes its vision to the vibrant imagination of its director, who created a musical that reminds us how cultural-political events can change our tune.
September 30, 2008
A marvelous visual experience that works even for non-Beatles fans.
September 28, 2007
Most of the songs are performed in such saccharine style and staged so literally that they almost seem like they belong in a Broadway show. That's a very bad thing.
October 03, 2007
[A] visionary attempt to wed a story of young love and 1960s war protest to the Lennon-McCartney catalog.
October 19, 2007
...the long and winding road that is Julie Taymor's opulent, eye-filling, and disappointingly uninvolving musical extravaganza...
September 28, 2007
...Julie Taymor's rhapsodic mash note to John, Paul, George and Ringo falls just short of breathtaking.