Again, this is simply a piece of fluffy filler, and it gets enough right as an entertainer to be genuinely likable, but the film is so unfocused and, at times, overstylized as a perhaps intentionally flawed animation piece and psychedelic musical that the final product almost collapses into dismissible mediocrity, and certainly collapses into underwhelmingness. Padding is arguably at its worse during the musical numbers, which are very rarely backed by a progression of the narrative, just psychedelic imagery that meanders along, waiting for the song to end, and while moments such as those may very well be the ones that halt momentum in the harshest way, filler is crowbarred in all over the place, so much so that it ends up driving the film about as much as anything, thus thinning out plotting even further until, before too long, focus ends up dead on its feet. Hey, this is a family fluff piece, and that is some high-grade vanilla right there, so I am by no means asking for much, but it's nice to have some meat on a fluff piece's bones, and you shouldn't expect much of that with this film, which offers no real character development and slapdashes things so much that you end up with a slam-banged plot that doesn't have much going for it, and is hurt worse by the structuring aspects that are anything but hurried. The film is ultimately fun for all ages, but when it starts to aim at the general audience, those in the wake are bound to be thrown off by all of the cheesiness that reflects a bit of laziness within the final product, though not as much as the issues in, well, substance.
The film is restrained enough to turn in plenty of effective bits of humor that most anyone can attach to as compliments to the entertainment value that never slips too far from the final product, but make no mistake, this is a bit of a kiddy film, and much too often, you're firmly reminded by all of the fluff's getting carried away and becoming just downright cheesy, sometimes to a slightly embarrassing extend, and consistently to an extent that may prove rather awkward for grown-ups. Whether it be because of the limitations of the time or because of some kind of stylistic choice, this film features very crudely done animations, and sure, I would consider them something of a strength, as they have a certain colorfulness that I'll touch more upon later, yet after a while, you're bound to get to certain points where it's too difficult to get over the flaws of the animations, whose lack of life proves to be distancing, like the fluffiness that, unlike the animation's liveliness, gets to be too abundant for its own good. especially when you're higher than the Space Shuttle, this trippy opus does indeed trip up is some places in a not especially groovy way. Still, while you can expect to fine plenty of fun and games with this film. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band" will tell you that the Beatles' name being attached to something doesn't always spell financial success for a film, so this film couldn't afford to be too lazy, and sure enough, much like the album it's named after, this film is a possible product of slapdashing that works enough to be quite enjoyable. or an actual yellow submarine (I'm not saying that there's a big difference between real life and the celebrity world, but a film that cost £250,000 is dirt-cheap), so right there is another point that shows you that the makers of this film clearly cared about this project that would, of course, need to be well-made in order to be a cash cow.
#Submarine cartoon show movie#
Shoot, sarcasm aside, this thing didn't cost but, like, just one children's matinee movie ticket. I guess it doesn't matter what kind of dope the Beatles were on when they came up with this album, because you know that it was going to be a hit, much like this film, because when I think of following up the "Magical Mystery Tour" film with a hallucinatory, crudely animated cartoon interpretation of a Beatles album about psychedelic shenanigans in a yellow submarine, I think of success on every level. "We all live in a yellow submarine, yellow submarine, yellow submarine! We all live in a yellow submarine, yellow submarine, yellow submarine!" Hey, the Beatles may have been thoroughly entertaining and justly respected musical innovators with a good taste in melodies, but they weren't especially creative lyricists, except when it came to putting together colorful characters and stories, and even then, you can tell that they slam-banged the "story" of the album this film is based on.
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