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Brilliantly dry and silly in every sense of the word.

I came into this expecting a sequel to "A Hard Day's Night" and I'm probably not alone there. Let me be the first to tell you this is NOTHING LIKE "Hard Day's Night". It couldn't be more different. While the story to that one is relatively simple, the lads are preparing to do a televised concert and hijinks ensue, this one is...interesting. It's not a mockumentary but rather an action comedy jukebox musical. The story goes that somehow Ringo ends up in possession of a prized ring owned by a religious cult. The ring represents who is chosen as a sacrifice and so much of the movie is them trying to kidnap and murder Ringo. Once he figures out what's going on, Ringo becomes reasonably paranoid and the Beatles end up traveling all around the world trying to escape them. It's a cat-and-mouse game. The movie is delightfully absurd and for whatever reason occasionally includes title cards and subtitles (my personal favorite being: "The Exciting Adventure of Paul on the Floor". It makes sense in context). It's just pure crazy fun, in typical Beatles fashion. But now, I need to address the elephant in the room: the Beatles themselves. Now, they're not bad actors at all (as we've seen in "Hard Day's Night") but we have to talk about the performances for a second. They're performances are all right, I had just noticed something was off. They simply weren't all the way there. It caught me off-guard. Especially John, who had this manic energy he brought, just is missing. Paul McCartney explained in an interview I saw that this was because they were *very* stoned for most of the movie, and that actually makes a lot of sense when you sit down to watch it. Another thing I'd like to talk about is the scenes for the fan-girls because there are a few. I really would've loved to be in a movie theatre in '65, just to see what those girls' responses were to these scenes. In one scene, George has his shirt ripped off him, another one exposes Ringo in his boxers. But the highlight scene would in "The Exciting Adventure of Paul on the Floor" where Paul is completely naked. It's almost as though I can still hear those girls screaming at the top of their lungs. Strangely enough though, John doesn't get a scene like that. Probably because we saw him in the bath in "Hard Day's Night" but it's still a little disappointing. Ah, well, I'll take my John in the bath tub scene and move on. I rewatched several scenes after my first viewing and took a great interest into George Harrison. Obviously, like the other Beatles, he's stoned out of his mind for most of the film and just doing wacky things in the background when the focus isn't on him. Such as eating a cymbal. It...actually doesn't make sense in context either but uh...it got several laughs out of me. There are several moments of them just being crazy that make no sense, such as a 7-second long "intermission" between parts 1 and 2 in which....I don't even know how to describe it. You'll have to just see it for yourself. ALSO please watch the credits of the movie. Usually I'm one to skip them but here I was laughing my head off. There the Beatles are, stoned as usual, just laughing and messing around dubbed over the credits. And again, George Harrison steals the show. Overall, I actually enjoyed this movie more than I thought I would. Even with *slight* (it almost ruined the movie for me) racism I would probably recommend it to Beatles fans/fans of absurd disaster comedies like "Airplane". It was just simply a lot of fun. It does include intense scenes including several Ringo murder attempts which may frighten younger or more sensitive viewers.

GREAT AND AMAZING FILM. A guy points a gun at the Beatles but does not shoot. Mild racism which is bad but only mild. There is drug references but seven year olds know not to take drugs.

What people have to understand about this whole "racial" thing is that it was 1965. You could get away with a whole lot more than you can today. So yes, there is some weird, Indian-like, primitive tribe that they make fun of alot, but it's fine. The violence in it is just plain funny and silly, like when they are playing in a field and there's an explosion and they have to run away. I am a hard core Beatles fan and this movie is just so silly and cute.

GREAT MOVIE! There are some tanks, but they're meant in a funny way. Ringo wears a ring that is wanted for a ceremony, which means human sacrifice. A lot of humor and fun. Playful roughhousing.

The film is good just so others know in the film there is a religion that sacrifices people and you have to wear a ring to be sacrificed and Ringo has the ring in scenes he is threatend once by a chainsaw so if you dont like scene where people are being threatend by tools such as a chainsaw then watchout for that scene.

I love it, best movie of all time, especially if you like the Beatles.

Yes; the scenario's are considerd 'crazy' and unrealistic; it is a very enjoyable movie for any Beatles fan. The comedy kept me laughing, especially as the Beatles do random things. Overall, very enjoyable!