They have an army, led by the Chief Blue Meanie, a blue fuzzy thing with rabbit ears and a psychotic demeanor, and his subordinate Max. No really, they answer every question with "no", even when in the affirmative. Meanwhile, far out on the unfashionable end of the western spiral arm of Pepperland live some contemptible creatures known as Blue Meanies, who hate music and color and all things nice and won't even answer in the affirmative. Don't know who those other guys were.posers.
Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band-the original one, mind you. Everything's happy and peaceful and love and peace are in the air and all the rest of it.
Welcome to Pepperland, a paradise of green pastures and blue skies eighty thousand leagues under the sea, where the air is crisp, the scenery is more colorful than normal, and the music is always playing to the delight of its denizens. Fortunately, the film was re-released last spring, which was more than a net gain for humanity. In that time, Robert Zemeckis and Disney had threatened to remake the film with ghastly 3-D motion capture animation and release it in time for the London Olympics luckily those plans were torpedoed by the poor performance of his all-zombie Christmas Carol and the CATASTROPHIC reception of his adaptation of Berkeley Breathed's Mars Needs Moms. The film was remastered and re-released in 1999 for the first time on DVD (I remember giving my sister a VHS copy for Christmas that year) but since then it's gone out of print and hadn't seen another DVD release since.
However, they later saw a draft copy of the finished product and were so impressed by it that they chose to appear as themselves in a live-action cameo at the end of the movie. They don't voice themselves, but they did contribute four original songs to the soundtrack-"All Together Now", "Only a Northern Song", "Hey Bulldog" and "It's All Too Much".
#Yellow submarine cartoon movie movie#
George Dunning, who had produced the TV series, was chosen to direct.Īs for the band themselves, they only agreed to the film as a means of finishing out their movie deal with United Artists, and thus their contribution was minimal. So when the time came to make this film, TVC threw out their original art and character designs and hired artist Heinz Edelmann to give the movie its trademark psychedelic pop art feel. In it, the band traveled the world, played gigs and got into scrapes not uncommon for any 1960s TV show.
#Yellow submarine cartoon movie series#
That honor would go to a 39-episode Saturday morning cartoon series of their namesake produced in 1965 by British animation studio TVC. Yellow Submarine was NOT the Beatles' first foray into animation. So perhaps it came as a great relief to them that their fourth film would be a little more.animated. The Beatles weren't too pleased with Help!, and coupled with the poor reception of their 1967 made-for-TV effort Magical Mystery Tour, they were kind of turned off on the whole starring-in-movies thing. This was followed up one year later with Help!, which I can best describe as A Hard Day's Night with a plot.and also in color. With a band as successful as the Fab Four, it seemed only natural that they would make a transition into the motion pictures.and they did, with the 1964 Richard Lester film A Hard Day's Night, regarded by moviegoers all over as one of the greatest rock 'n' roll films of all time. What could be said about the Beatles that hasn't already been said millions of times by millions of people in the past few decades? Apart from "about time iTunes put their music up in their online store"? Most influential rock band of all time, put out some of the best music ever recorded, sold millions of records, at least three of them went on to successful solo careers after their breakup in 1970, blah blah blah, yada yada yada. "Yellow Submarine", 1968, directed by George Dunning.įrom the Cavern Club in Liverpool in 1963 would emerge a quartet which would forever change the face of popular music.
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