The restored DVD and Blu-ray includes a stellar soundtrack remix, ensuring that the movie’s watchable moments sound terrific. It only comes to life during the musical numbers, especially the great ‘I Am the Walrus’ sequence, a music video before there was such a thing. It’s easy to see why: The movie is a mess – incoherent, unfunny and an example of ego and authority running rampant and unchecked. It has a good rating on IMDb: 6.1 stars out of 10.

26, 1967, and bombed, proving that the Beatles were fallible after all. 'Magical Mystery Tour' fantasy, music and comedy movie produced in UK and released in 1967. ‘Magical Mystery Tour’ originally aired on British television on Dec. There's also bizarre sketches featuring the quartet dressed as magicians and a dreamlike love-story vignette that doesn’t include any of the Beatles. Just to show you how desperate the filmmakers were for material, somebody plays an accordion and everyone else sings along. Fortunately, the film was accompanied by a nice little set of songs. The film ended up being as aimless as the group was after Epsteins death, and was deemed to be the first flop of their impeccable career to date.

Years after a nervous breakdown Karl goes on tour with old friends and upcoming electronic music DJs. To try to regroup, Paul McCartney came up with the idea to make a film, a psychedelic bus trip, to be titled Magical Mystery Tour. With Charly Hbner, Annika Meier, Detlev Buck, Marc Hosemann. Its an entertaining enough watch if you go in with low expectations but the previous Beatles movies had all been high quality. Each member gets his spotlight: John Lennon romping on the hillside during a musical interlude featuring ‘I Am the Walrus’ Paul McCartney (the driving force behind the project) ruminating on ‘The Fool on the Hill George Harrison tripping out to ‘Blue Jay Way’ and Ringo Starr bickering with his aunt (played by an actress) for the duration of the tour.īut most of the movie is filled out by that tedious bus ride. Magical Mystery or: The Return of Karl Schmidt: Directed by Arne Feldhusen.

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