Although it has its amusing moments, in eneral the plot does not convince.

This story has more twists and turns than a second-rate soap opera.

This is one of the few movies I've ever seen where the whole audience broke into spontaneous, loud applause a third of the way in.

Easily the biggest piece of Right wing non sense propaganda I ever saw.

This could have been poorly done had it not been for a sense of quality that seemed to be a part of the Beatles and their people. This is the wonderful story of society that develops over time and come under threat. But it is not the usual "save the world" kind of thing but rather the creation of a world like we've never seen. There is a surreal being to it. It is colorful and engaging. Of course, what is most impressive is the integration of Beatles music into the plot. "Lucy in the Sky with Diamonds" is a great example of psychedelic visuals. But overall, it is a movie that never bores. Its images are striking and there is an array of the most wonderful characters.

even if you're not a Beatles fan, even if "psychedelia" isn't your thing, I do believe this 60s time-capsule has enough going for it to where it's worth watching. Maybe not multiple times, but at least once.This bears saying because it IS kind of stupid, when you break it down to its bare elements. The idyllic English countryside fantasy-world of "Pepperland" has been taken over by the "Blue Meanies," and only the Beatles can stop them. So it's a surreal but nonsensical journey from the Beatles' Liverpool to Pepperland, punctuated by a bunch of their songs which have very little to do with the story. Plus a handful of jokes which are painfully un-funny.This totally would be an embarrassingly trite cash-grab if not for the truly interesting and unique art direction, which really has nothing to do with the Beatles at all except for them both exploiting a psychedelic look. This Czech guy, Heinz Edelmann, designed everything with this neon-tubed, pop-art, minimalist look that really works.Even better are the weird images and effects that pop up, especially during the musical sequences. Like the Oscilloscope under the face-caricatures in "Only a Northern Song," or the rotoscoped acrobats in "Lucy in the Sky with Diamonds." I can see how many would find this all to be just artsy-fartsy nonsense, but for me it works. Even without any apparent underlying meaning, it somehow feels both whimsical and sad, in a good way.In summation, this movie is well-financed Outsider Art. It's trite, but it's also well-developed in some ways. And there's nothing else out there quite like it.

Until now, this is the best film which I have ever seen. It contains almost everything that interests me: friendship, humour, science, the world, and peace. It maybe looks like Alice in Wonderland, yet certainly goes deeper in your heart. Perhaps it is the function of music. Although I am not a fan of The Beetles, I am quite impressed by the songs in this film. Unlike other films that talk about perceptions, this one doesn't make your head burst with gloomy thoughts after watching it; instead, the little jokes in it make it a pleasant thing to think, just like many other British films. I feel I am in a boat on a river, with tangerine trees and marmalade skies now.

I saw this movie on TV as a child. It actually wasn't that much weirder than many other cartoons from that era.Later in life, I would see "Help!" and "A Hard Day's Night", the live-action Beatles movies. Both were romps with interruptions for scenes where the Beatles would perform their various songs. None of them were deeply meaningful-or purported to be. They were like extended versions of "The Monkees" television shows.So what makes "Yellow Submarine" different? Mainly, the animation and the fantasy elements and pictures that could not be placed in their live-action movies. They appear in the flesh briefly in the end, and one of them comments, "That was a nice little party." I'm certainly nobody intended for this to be anything else.