Across the Universe

Pros: Great music from the BeatlesDramatic RomanceFun MusicalPsychedelic Scenes
Cons: Drug contentViolenceInappropriate languageSexual contentNudity

Across the Universe               The Beatles’ greatest hits, a passionate romance, and psychedelic scenery sounds like the making of a great musical in 2007. Across the Universe has become ...

Pros: Another great tribute to the Beatles
Cons: it may take more than one viewing to really appreciate it

I originally heard about this movie from my mother, who found out about it on an episode of Oprah. She said she thought this was something my fiancee and I would be interested in. She was right, I was curious since the beginning. The only problem was ...

Pros: -Great cast -Great visual effects
Cons: -A bit long -Hard to follow if your not watching it closely

When I was forced to watch this movie, I thought it would be the longest two hours of my life. Little did I know I would soon buy this movie and watch it on multiple occasions. Across the Universe is a film that takes place in the 1960’s right in the ...

Pros: Wonderful music and good flowing story. Fun movie.
Cons: None!

Before watching Across the Universe, I found myself with one major concern: since this is a musical whose soundtrack was limited to the works of one band (not that the Beatles repertoire is a small library to choose from), the events could easily seem ...

Pros: Powerful story, great singing, neat story
Cons: Beginning music seems a bit forced

Very, very cool movie. I'm a big Beatles fan, a fan of their message, a fan of their sound, and fan of their progress, their evolvement through some of the hardest times, and the timelessness of their sounds. Plot During the ...

Pros: Musical love story; one of a kind. Great music.
Cons: Has some drug content and violence.

I wanted to see this movie from the first time I saw the previews on tv. After I saw the movie I knew it was going to be a classic. It kept my attention from beginning to end; with psychedelic scenes to famous lyrics from The Beatles. This movie was ...

Pros: Great music, good singing, and acting
Cons: Very weak, thrown together story.

Being a huge Beatles fan for many many many years, I was super excited to see this new movie featuring many of this legendary bands songs. Unfortuantly, for me this movie seemed to fall flat in many aspects. I think the reason we sit down and spend two ...

Pros: Great new versions of classic Beatles songs.
Cons: You'll waste about 2 hours of your life trying to figure out what you're watching.

My husband and I rented this over the weekend with high expectations. We both love The Beatles and felt that this might be THE movie that we would love more than Moulin Rouge!, which is our number one favorite. Please keep in mind, we went into this ...

Pros: Very original and excellent singing.
Cons: It's very long and is slow at some parts. Probably not appropriate for children.

The first time I saw the trailer for this movie, I instantly knew I would fall in love with it. The whole movie was exciting, and the love story was rather different than other movies. The movie was very original, different than the crappy repeated movie plots that have been used in movies. There were certain parts of the movie that were rather odd, for instance when they were in the circus. The Beatles' songs fit into the story perfectly, and the characters are each unique. The singing is phenomenal. This movie is perfect for Beatles fans, or those who just love musical-type movies.

Pros: Everything, cinematography, the acting, the singing, the humor...
Cons: closed minded people need not apply.

My boyfriend was dragged along to go see this movie. He hates musicals so I was a little nervous to even tell him that it was one. I told him I had a feeling that he was going to like it though.

I was right.

We both fell in love. And... if you rent it or buy it, make sure you watch the special features. Another cool thing to do is to look up on wikipedia all the ways that Julie Taymor tied in references to the Beatles. It goes much further than just singing their music.

This movie was truly amazing and I hope everyone that watches it goes in with an open mind, sits back, and enjoys. :)

Pros: Wonderful story-Great music
Cons: Missing spanish subtitles!!!!

Love the movie/story but it lacks spanish translation though it says it has it. Subtitles only appear when there are spoken lines between characters and may be the first verses of the songs... Thus, most of the songs are missed for non english speakers. The beauty of this movie remains on the lyrics!
Mostly everyone knows the lyrics of several songs from The Beatles, but this movie also happens to bring songs that are not so well known, and that was what I expected to promote...
I only tried subtitles for spanish, don't know how it works with other languages.