![]() Emergency Marineville, a wonderful special effects episode. The Ghost Of The Sea, for once, Commander Shore gets out of the office and goes on a Stingray mission with Troy, giving this episode an Admiral Nelson/Captain Crane voyage to the bottom of the sea feel. The Golden Sea, good science fiction story and great effects. ![]() Treasure Down Below, an episode driven by characterisation, mainly Phones and Troy getting all worked up about the treasure and taking the sub to dangerous waters, a classic! The Big Gun, wonderful colour, action and effects. Young kids may be disturbed by some of the strange images.Of the 39 episodes, the following nine are essential viewing: The Pilot, well filmed Motion Picture TV with wonderful sets, effects, colour and music. There are many Beatles songs, including the title song, "When I'm 64," "All You Need is Love," "Sergeant Pepper's Lonely Heart's Club Band," and more. ![]() When they reach Pepperland, they conquer the blue meanies with music, poetry, and love. They travel back, meeting strange creatures and picking up Jeremy (The Nowhere Man) along the way. Ringo convinces his three friends who live with him in a fabulous museum to help. There he meets Ringo, bored in a polluted gray city. Young Fred (actually a middle-aged guy) takes the fabled Yellow Submarine, a sort of ark that brought his ancestors to Pepperland, and travels through strange lands until he reaches London. They "bonk" people with green apples and turn them to stone. The basic premise of the movie has peaceful, beautiful Pepperland under attack by curious blue creatures called Blue Meanies who hate beauty, music, and happiness. Things that happen in this movie could only happen in an alternate dimension or a long dream. The animation is colorful and psychedelic. This is a strange movie, no doubt about it. (I edited this from a more full review a few minutes ago at Show more We have a lot to cherish in "Yellow Submarine" but also to learn from. ![]() I wish films that films that treated so many interesting issues without offensive language or inappropriate violence were more the norm today. It's much more than a music video but even if you see this as one extended music video, it surely was innovative for the late 1960s but hasn't lost its charm and draw in the 21st century. It has always amazed me that perhaps the only bands that everybody seems to love is the Beatles. The music is of course at the core of the film. Sure there's a bit of violence but it's rather tame more concerning to those in preschool and younger might be scenes of snarling dogs, yellow/sharp toothed monsters, and the like.Įven by today's standards, the bright, pop art like animation is thrilling to see - and it just keeps on coming. My elementary aged daughter sang along, laughed quite a bit, and kept talking about the film on the way home when we saw the digitally restored film outdoors tonight.īoth adults and children will enjoy the humor, though some of the quick lines might register more fully with adults. "Yellow Submarine" is great for the whole family, though some of the animated violence might bother the very young, perhaps preschool and younger. ![]()
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