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Product Description: Across the Universe from director Julie Taymor is a revolutionary rock musical that re-imagines America in the turbulent late-1960s a time when battle lines were being drawn at home and abroad. When young dockworker Jude (Jim Sturgess) leaves Liverpool to find his estranged father in America he is swept up by the waves of change that are re-shaping the nation. Jude falls in love with Lucy (Evan Rachel Wood) a rich but sheltered American girl who joins the growing anti-war movement in New York s Greenwich Village. As the body count in Vietnam rises political tensions at home spiral out of control and the star-crossed lovers find themselves in a psychedelic world gone mad. With a cameo by Bono Across the Universe is the kind of movie you watch again like listening to a favorite album. (Roger Ebert CHICAGO SUN-TIMES)System Requirements:Run Time: 133 Mins.Format: DVD MOVIE Genre: MUSICALS/MUSICALS Rating: PG-13 UPC: 043396194625 Manufacturer No: 19462 Average Rating:
 Rating: - What a great story and a Great soundtrack!The story is great, the characters are great, and the way the songs were weaved into the storyline was fantastic. Rating:  - A movie for everyone.Let me preface this by saying that 9 times out of ten i ABHOR musicals. HATE THEM. I gave this a shot only because my boyfriend brought it home. Guess what? This is one of my favorite movies, hands-down. Ever. I was totally blown away by it. I laughed, I cried (and so did my partner - suffice it to say that after realizing he cried at movies, I fell in love - and perhaps I might be a little biased about this movie because of that). I was thoroughly impressed not just by the musical segments (yeah, truly!) but by the storyline, too. Buy it, rent it, watch it, love it. Rating:  - Possibly the worst movie ever . . . One would think that the creation of a movie based on the music of the Beatles would be a good idea. And, in fact, it was . . . see A Hard Day's Night or even Yellow Submarine. Although some of the music was well-done in ATU, the plot was very loosely pieced together. Add somewhat psychadelic cinematography to the mediocre acting and dialogue and chunk hurling will ensue! If only it carried on the tale of those curse-wielding cowboys of the cosmos Memsahib Duran so accurately portrayed in her critically acclaimed The Duke of Shadows? Rating: - Spend your money on something worthwhile...I am so glad I didn't waste my money on this worthless "film". Being a Beatles fan, I was absolutely offended by this. The Beatles would be offended by this. John Lennon is rolling over in his grave right now. I went into this movie wanting so badly to enjoy it, but I left wanting that hour and half of my life back. Yes, that is correct, I couldn't even finish it. I got to the Eddie Izzard "Being for the Benefit of Mr. Kite" scene where he is the leader of a carnival, and I had to turn it off because I couldn't breathe I was laughing so hard. The overall only enjoyment I got out of this movie was a bellyache from laughing so hard at this ongoing joke of a "film". Don't waste your money on this movie. If you still want to see it, borrow it from a friend, but save your money for a movie that is really worth buying. End note: If I had a time machine, I would go back into time and stop myself from wasting any time on this horrid movie. Rating: - Can't stop the music...Although I had to fast forward through the war and riots after the first time I saw ATU, I proceeded to watch it five times in four days (a first for me). And now I'll buy it. While I did, in fact, live through the events portrayed (and recognize the obvious, sad parallels to the world we're living in today), in the interest of full disclosure, I'm a HUGE fan of the genre, so my review is skewed! "All That Jazz" is my second favorite movie of all time and this one sweetly surpasses the hallucinatory aspects of that classic. On a personal level, the voices and faces of the young stars reflect faces and stories I knew in the day, so it's a bittersweet but beautiful trip back to the times that made me who I am. It allows me to feel like the young hippie chick I was so long ago, but mellowed (and, gratefully, strengthened) with the wisdom of age. Why buy it? Buy it to watch Jim Sturgess sing "Girl". Buy it to cry through "Let it Be" if you've got ANY unresolved issues. Buy it to fall in love with Sturgess, Fuchs, Woods, Anderson and McCoy like you did with George, John, Paul and Ringo. Sweet dreams! Browse for similar items by category:
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