'It’s a clever and interesting premise, but one that’s wasted on this film, which seems more interested in the emotional stakes of Ellie’s one-sided crush on Jack.'
It’s a clever and interesting premise, but one that’s wasted on this film, which seems more interested in the emotional stakes of Ellie’s one-sided crush on Jack than grappling with the potentially world-altering consequences of the removal of The Beatles from our timeline. You can’t argue that The Beatles were revolutionary in their approach to music and not show how different the world would be without them. Take, and delivers a genuinely funny performance.
Nor does the film address the potential consequences of having these songs come from a person of color, or whether or not dumping them on an audience packaged as one big fat double album, rather than as the product of careful, years-long musical evolution, might diminish their appeal. “ ” has almost nothing to do with “Paperback Writer,” and even less to do with “Revolution.” They’re emblematic of a fast-paced change in pop music, spearheaded by The Beatles themselves over xxx years.Also, few people seem concerned with some of the more troublesome lyrics and themes in the songs, which feels outrageously dated when divorced from their original context.
Instead, the whole thing is treated as an excuse to sing Beatles songs in strange, fish-out-of-water situations — like when Jack plays “Let It Be” to his distracted parents who interrupt the melody every two seconds, or when Ed Sheeran suggests that “Hey Jude,” should really be “Hey Dude.
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