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Yellow
Submarine
Though the animated movie of the Beatles’ hit song "Yellow Submarine" is more a collection of music videos connected by a loosely structured plot than it is a fully realized movie, the good news is that most of the musical vignettes are well done, and some of them are actually quite good as stand-alone music videos.
The sometimes imaginative animation is also sometimes a bit dated, and the big, bad Blue Meanies attack on the good folk of Pepperland plot is minimal, but what makes "Yellow Submarine" work is the witty, pre-Monty Python silliness that made the on-screen Beatles so endearing. And, of course, there's the Beatles’ music. Some of their best songs are included here, re-mixed for a digital six-track theatrical sound format (DTS), available only on the DVD. "All You Need is Love," "Nowhere Man," "When I'm Sixty-four" and "Hey Bulldog," which was originally left out of the movie," all sound great in the more spacious and multi-dimensional ambience of DTS for those who have Dolby Digital 5.1* home theater audio.
Yellow Submarine would be a great introduction for children to the wonder of
this timeless music, and a lot better than having them sit and watch endless,
insipid Barney videos.
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*Dolby 5.1: A discrete 5.1 channel soundtrack. When played through Dolby Digital equipment, discrete sound will be heard from all five speakers and a subwoofer.
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