Across the Universe
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Product Description
Across the Universe, from director Julie Taymor, is a revolutionary rock musical that re-imagines America in the turbulent late-1960s, a time when battle lines were being drawn at home and abroad. When young dockworker Jude (Jim Sturgess) leaves Liverpool to find his estranged father in America, he is swept up by the waves of change that are re-shaping the nation. Jude falls in love with Lucy (Evan Rachel Wood), a rich but sheltered American girl who joins the growi... More >>
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I very much enjoyed the films Mulin Rouge and HairSpray, so I was open minded when going to see this one as well. I was seriously disapointed. I was bored throughout 95% of this movie. I thought the music was boring and also very annoying, as the movie dragged out to the point where I wished they would just shut up!!! Don’t expect to see some lavish performance with spectuacular special effects; you just won’t see it here. The plot, actors, and writing were all extremely boring to me. For me, a waste of time and money.
Rating: 1 / 5
Across the Universe is an uninspired, predictable shamble of a movie.
In my opinion, the film is plagued with a superfluous amount of unwarranted close-ups, and drags us through songs we’ve all heard sung much better a thousand times, over and over again.
None of the characters offer any type of motivation to keep watching the movie; being either too bland, or coming across as caricatures of what could have been real people. The addition of Bono to the cast does the film no favors either.
The film falls short in every way possible; in it’s attempt to appeal to either the faulty nostalgia of those who grew up in the era depicted, or the wish-they-were-bohemian kids who will go to see it and say they loved it in an attempt to be trendy.
Reviewers praising the cinematography or story or the film need to watch better movies or read a book. Seriously, don’t waste your time and money seeing this movie. Put on a Beatles record and listen to that instead.
Rating: 1 / 5
The introductions to the characters were overly long, and didn’t really make me care about them. Plus it’s really difficult to write a story around existing material and make it work… and these people didn’t. It’s also overwrought in many places – and while some sequences like “A Little Help From My Friends” and “Strawberry Fields Forever” work, others (particularly “I Am The Walrus” and “For The Benefit of Mr. Kit”) are horribly… well… laughable. Eddie Izzard is particularly terrible and improvises dialogue (or delivers lines from a really bad screenplay, I’m not sure which) during the song, and it didn’t work.
Rating: 1 / 5
You want to enjoy Beatle songs? Listen to your Beatles collection. These flower children are still trying to tell us that they were right and we were wrong. I’d much rather fight for my country abroad, than fight against it at home. The mindset of the director of across the universe is pityful. To portray US soldiers, dressed like Fidel Castro! Well, you must be an embecile! Don’t waste your money like I did in buying this movie. It stinks. Vietnam Vet, 1st MarDiv, 1st Shore Party Bat. 1967,68
Rating: 1 / 5
In all fairness, I was skeptical about this movie before i saw it. My girlfriend was pulling my arm into the theatre to see this film. So i gave it a shot and to be honest i felt it was way too speratic. Simply put they tried to cram too much character development into a short period, what they should have done was tone down on the backstories and make the film somewhat more linear. i didn’t recognize a solid plot that progressed until midway through the movie. It was like like several smaller vignettes. All in all i disliked it
Rating: 2 / 5