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Mood:
- StylizedCaptivatingSentimental
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Plot:
- Couple RelationsPolitical UnrestHopesLove and RomanceYouthCouplesActor's LifeArtist's Life more...
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Genres:
- MusicalPeriodRomanceDrama
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Time/Period:
- 20th Century60sVietnam War
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Place:
- EnglandUSAVietnam
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Audience:
- Date Night
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- SeriousRealistic
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- PopRock
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Look:
- Animation & Live ActionPuppets
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- Mild Violent ContentNudityProfanity
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Across the Universe, 2007
English
USA
Profile of Across the Universe
The mood of Across the Universe is stylized, captivating, and sentimental. The plot centers around political unrest, hopes, and couples relations. It is a romance, period, and musical movie. In approach, Across the Universe is serious and realistic. The setting is Vietnam, the USA, and England. It happens during the Vietnam War and in the 1960s. Visually, Across the Universe involves puppetry and includes animation and live action. The musical score is pop and rock. It is especially suggested for a date night. Note that Across the Universe includes mild violent content, nudity, and profanity.
Summary of Across the Universe
The Beatles' songs may have provided the soundtrack for the lives of those coming of age in the 1960s, but their extensive catalogue acts as the literal soundtrack in this romantic musical from visionary director Julie Taymor. Newcomer Jim Sturgess stars as Jude, a young man working on the docks in Liverpool. Eager to escape, he travels to Princeton where he meets Max (Joe Anderson). But it's his meeting with Max's younger sister Lucy (Evan Rachel Wood) that changes him. They quickly fall in love, but their relationship is tested by the chaos of the late 1960s and Max's unwilling tour in Vietnam. Throughout the film, characters burst into classics from the Beatles: frat boys sing "With a Little Help from My Friends," while Uncle Sam bursts from a recruitment poster with strains of "I Want You (She's So Heavy)." U2's Bono makes a cameo as a counterculture leader and croons "I Am the Walrus," and actor-comedian Eddie Izzard provides a trippy rendition of "Being for the Benefit of Mr. Kite."
Sturgess has the voice, charm, and good looks to fill Shea Stadium with hordes of screaming young women. As Jude, he's earnest and certainly capable of carrying the film. Wood capably balances Lucy's naiveté and knowledge, easily moving between her love for Jude and her passion for her cause. Though the performances are strong, it's Taymor's gifted direction that makes ACROSS THE UNIVERSE so fascinating to watch. As in FRIDA and Broadway's THE LION KING, she proves herself an artist with creativity few can match. Director of photography Bruno Delbonnel also deserves praise for his contribution to the striking visuals. He has worked with Jean-Pierre Jeunet on AMELIE and A VERY LONG ENGAGEMENT, and he brings the same sense of romance and whimsy to this unique musical.
Details
| Language: | English |
| Country: | USA |
| Release date: | 12 October 2007 |
| Runtime: | 133 min |
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Critics Reviews
San Francisco Chronicle
While the songs are recycled, Across the Universe stands out just by existing.
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- by: Peter Hartlaub
The New York Times
Somewhere around its midpoint, Across the Universe captured my heart, and I realized that falling in love with a movie is like falling in love with another person. Imperfections, however glaring, become endearing quirks once you’ve tumbled.
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- by: Stephen Holden
Users Reviews
Well shot and acted. However, the Beatles songs have never sounded so overly produced and poorly re-imagined.
- 29.August.2010
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- by: ddcarter
- ddcarter rated this movie
0/10
Most of the dialog is stunningly bad and delivered like players in a high school production of "The Crucible." The far too numerous characters range from drifting as nonentities to being absolutely unlikeable. Prudence in particular seems to exist...
- 25.April.2010
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- by: godelfin
- godelfin rated this movie0/10
