Yellow Submarine (1968)

User Rating:

7.1/10   

Director:

George Dunning

Writers:

Lee Minoff (story)
Lee Minoff (screenplay) ...

Release Date:

13 November 1968 (USA)

Genre:

Animation | Adventure | Comedy | Family | Fantasy | Music

Tagline:

The forces of good! The forces of evil!

Plot:

The Beatles agree to accompany Captain Fred in his Yellow Submarine and go to Pepperland to free it from the music hating Blue Meanies.

Plot Keywords:

Beatles | Submarine | The Beatles | Psychedelic | U Boat

Awards:

2 wins & 2 nominations

Cast

The Beatles	...	Themselves (as Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band)
Paul Angelis	...	Chief Blue Meanie / Ringo (voice)
John Clive	...	John (voice)
Dick Emery	...	Jeremy Hilary Boob, Ph.D - Nowhere Man / Lord Mayor / Max (voice)
Geoffrey Hughes	...	Paul (voice) (as Geoff Hughes)
Lance Percival	...	Young / Old Fred (voice)

Also Known As:

The Beatles' Yellow Submarine (USA) (complete title)

Runtime:

90 min | USA:85 min

Country:

UK | USA

Language:

English

Color:

Color

Aspect Ratio:

1.66 : 1

Sound Mix:

DTS (re-release) | Dolby Digital (re-release) | Mono (original release) (Westrex Recording System)

Certification:

Singapore:PG | Canada:F (Ontario) | Canada:G (Manitoba/Nova Scotia/Quebec) | Iceland:L | Canada:G (video rating) | Finland:S | France:U | Sweden:11 | UK:U | USA:G | West Germany:6 (nf) (w)

Filming Locations:

Studios of TVC London, London, England, UK

Company:

Apple Corps

Trivia:

When the film was being restored for DVD, the producers obtained The Beatles' permission to remix the songs in order to produce a proper 5.1 music track. Engineer Peter Cobbin went back to The Beatles' original four-track work tapes and assembled true multi-track masters for each of the 15 songs, enabling him to achieve stereo effects and adding clarity that had never previously been possible. Many Beatles fans objected to this, although the surviving Beatles themselves reportedly approved the new mixes.

Quotes:

George: Ok, men all aboard. Lets go somewhere.
Ringo: [Indicating Jeremy] What about him?
John: He's happy enough going around in circles.
Ringo: Aw, poor fellow. Can't he come with us?
Paul: I don't know. Ringo's just a sentamentalist.
Ringo: Hey, Mr Boob! You can come with us if you like.
Jeremy: You... you mean you'd take a nowhere man?
Ringo: Yea, come on. We'll take you somewhere.

Movie Connections:

Referenced in "Sigmund and the Sea Monsters: The Wild Weekend (#1.16)" (1973)

Soundtrack:

Hey Bulldog

"Have some nasty medicine, your blueness."

Next to FANTASIA, YELLOW SUBMARINE is one the best animated feature films ever made. We will always remember the sixties pop-art imagery along with some of the best dialog to grace cartoon-land ("I haven't had so much fun since Pompeii....""I'm a born lever puller.") not to mention some of the best music to come from the best set of musicians the 20th century has produced! This is a kid's film at heart (wild adventures in strange distant lands, weird monsters, loud over bearing villians....) My only criticism is in the re-mastering, in 1999. The song "Hey, bulldog..." is added toward the end (A scene where the fab four meet up with a bunch of the Blue Meanies' bulldogs, and defeat them with the power of music.) The scene looks hastily slapped together,like something out The Beatles cartoon series (which was hated by the real life Liverpool lads. That's why they were originally not too thrilled with the announcement of this animated film.) There is a reason why these scenes are deleted, to allow classics like this to flow so easily on the screen. Anyway, a great, great classic.