Specifically, I'm not certain that the film as it stands has any compelling motivation behind its central gimmick, which is of course an all-Beatles cover soundtrack.
ACROSS THE UNIVERSE CAST MOVIE
It's very hard to review a movie that I haven't seen, so I'm going to try to resist the urge to constantly assume that every last flaw in the film would have been answered by that extra 20 minutes, but there is an unshakable feeling that some parts of the film - mostly those that deal with the development of theme - are a wee bit hollowed-out. That said, it's an open question how much of Taymor's scheme for the movie made it out intact as has been widely publicised, Revolution Studios executive Joe Roth attempted to take some 60 minutes of footage from the director's 2.5 hour cut, and the 131 minute version we've been given is a grudging bastard compromise between the two. Across the Universe lies comfortably between those two projects both in terms of its surreal imagery and in terms of how much I personally felt like the film had exploded my delicate little head. After all, it is third film by the hallucinatory genius Julie Taymor, whose extraordinary Titus proved that no Shakespearean play is so bad that it can't be fixed by setting it in a post-punk Nazi Rome, and whose Frida, while not remotely so visionary, was still a gorgeously acted chunk of Technicolor candy nestled in an above-average biopic. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band a few days ago? Unquestionably.īut that's not to say that there isn't a lot here to love. Do I feel particularly generous towards Across the Universe because I just watched Sgt.
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