Movie Review: Across The Universe
Mar. 8th, 2008 09:27 amNetflix coughed up this movie as a recommendation for me. I saw a preview for it on another NetFlix disc recently, and the eye candy it presented seemed irresistible. Who was I to resist?
The general premise is that it's a musical constructed from Beatles Songs. Good Beatles songs, weird Beatles songs, and obscure Beatles songs. Bono and Eddie Izzard make appearances as a psychedelic guru-figure and Mr. Kite respectively. Joe Cocker appears as a triple character, including as a pimp sporting an impossibly-wide purple shirt collar. The choreography, merely hinted at in the preview I saw, was amazing and fun. I totally ate it up.
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The general premise is that it's a musical constructed from Beatles Songs. Good Beatles songs, weird Beatles songs, and obscure Beatles songs. Bono and Eddie Izzard make appearances as a psychedelic guru-figure and Mr. Kite respectively. Joe Cocker appears as a triple character, including as a pimp sporting an impossibly-wide purple shirt collar. The choreography, merely hinted at in the preview I saw, was amazing and fun. I totally ate it up.
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