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Across the Universe

I saw Across the Universe last night. It's not bad, but it's not amazing like I was kind of hoping deep down. I think one of its problems is that it has too much music. Yes, I know its a musical. To me, it seems that the producers wrote a story with Beatles themed characters and then they said, "How many different songs can we possibly fit into each situation/plot point?" I felt that they could have made the movie just as effective and possibly even better if it had half of the musical numbers.

Here's where things change for me though. Each individual musical number on its own is great and visually wonderful. The music sounds amazing. Universe has a great soundtrack that any Beatles' fan will love. I'm listening to it now as I type this up. I love the fact that the soundtrack has a ton of different songs on it. I loved each individual musical number in the movie, but it just didn't work all together in the movie. It was too much in movie form. I could tell that a lot of people in the theatre we're getting restless as the movie went on.

I'm going by the soundtracks and what I remember, but Universe had about 28 individual musical numbers. Grease and Moulin Rouge each had around 15-16. So you can kind of see why I said there might just be too much music in Across the Universe as a movie.

If you appreciate the music and history of The Beatles, then go see Across the Universe. You'll like it for the music like I did.

This entry was posted on Monday, October 15, 2007 at 1:30 PM. You can skip to the end and leave a response.

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