Across the Universe
This story tells about a real background we live through the Beatles and the Vietnam War, which seems to have greatly influenced the lives of some. The story began during the Vietnam War on a romantic background through a love story between a top-class American girl and another poor artist from Librebodlian.
11 March 1976, Fort Worth, Texas, USA
1 July 1979
1 October 1963, Brighton, East Sussex, England, UK
6 February 1985, Phoenix, Arizona, USA
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.
September 30, 2008
A marvelous visual experience that works even for non-Beatles fans.
October 03, 2007
[A] visionary attempt to wed a story of young love and 1960s war protest to the Lennon-McCartney catalog.
April 10, 2008
'Across the Universe' is whimsical silliness, imaginatively constructed but precious and gratingly excessive.
September 28, 2007
Across the Universe is a classic example of ambition exceeding execution.
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 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.
September 28, 2007
...Julie Taymor's rhapsodic mash note to John, Paul, George and Ringo falls just short of breathtaking.
November 06, 2008
Visually and thematically audacious...
October 19, 2007
...the long and winding road that is Julie Taymor's opulent, eye-filling, and disappointingly uninvolving musical extravaganza...
August 02, 2008
chooses cheesy and nostalgic mis-en-scene over meaningful engagement with the musical material. A terrible disappointment.
