To call Across The Universe a two hour music video would be generous. Not that a musical based on Beatles songs is a bad idea, even making it a love story wasn't a bad idea. You take seven or eight Beatles songs that can be fit into a coherent narrative and you can make a nice tribute to an incredibly important band....or you can be Across The Universe.
What the movie did right:
It looks real pretty. There are a few amusing Beatles references.
That's about it, seriously.
What the movie did wrong:
Instead of using the actual Beatles songs or having talened artists cover the Beatles songs, let's give the cast the chance to sing. The result may sound like all four Beatles being anally violated, but whatever, we have a fetish for the Fab Four.
Coherent plot? Character development? Creativity? Those things would take up room where we could be sticking more bad Beatles covers! Let's instead use a paper thin, pasted together and contrived story as an excuse to make people listen to these bastardizations of Beatles classics. Let's introduce minor characters that have no bearing on the main story at all. Let's not explain critical plot points or develop ANYTHING. Let's make the main character a guy who cheats on his girlfriend and get the audience to wish that his relationship with the other woman works out. Let's make everyone a cliche.
Bottom line? It sucked.
D+
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