![]() The film features several fantastic songs including “It’s Only a Northern Song,” “Eleanor Rigby,” “Lucy In the Sky With Diamonds,” “Nowhere Man,” “All Together Now,” “When I’m Sixty-Four,” “Yellow Submarine,” and more. If the ringing endorsement from John Lennon, Paul McCartney, George Harrison, and Ringo Starr isn’t enough, then I don’t know what would be. Evidently, when the film was nearing completion the real Beatles saw the footage and loved it and thus agreed to appear as live action cameos at the finale. The Beatles themselves were not terribly keen initially with the idea of the film, so their speaking voices in the film were cast to other actors doing Beatles impressions (John Clive, Geoffrey Hughes, and Paul Angelis). Like these films, Yellow Submarine would be a wild comedy with loads of silly Beatle antics, but this time it would be animated, rendering complete free range over the psychedelic tone and tundra. Singing!" The four oblige with a short reprise of "All Together Now", which ends with translations of the song's title in various languages appearing in sequence on the screen.The film follows Richard Lester‘s two previous live-action films, The Beatles, A Hard Day’s Night (1964) and Help! (1965). John replies that "newer and bluer Meanies have been sighted within the vicinity of this theatre" and claims "there is only one way to go out. Ringo points out John looking through a telescope, which prompts Paul to ask what he sees. George has the submarine's motor, Paul has "a little 'love'," and Ringo has "half a hole" in his pocket (having supposedly given the other half to Jeremy). The real Beatles then appear in live-action, and playfully show off souvenirs from the events of the film. An enormous party ensues (" It's All Too Much"). John extends an offer of friendship, and the Chief Blue Meanie has a change of heart and accepts. Jeremy performs some "transformation magic" on the Chief Blue Meanie, causing the Meanie to bloom roses and sadly concede defeat. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band are released, and join the Beatles in combating the Meanies' multi-headed dog (" Hey Bulldog"). Pepperland is restored to colour as its flowers re-bloom and its residents revive. The Chief Blue Meanie retaliates by sending out the Dreadful Flying Glove, which John defeats by singing " All You Need Is Love". The four rally the land to rebellion (" Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band and steal some instruments. Reuniting with Old Fred and reviving the Lord Mayor, they look upon the now-miserable, grey landscape. Jeremy is kidnapped by a Blue Meanie, and the group finds their way to Pepperland. They then find themselves in the Sea of Holes, an expanse of flat surfaces with many holes. They arrive at the Foothills of the Headlands, where they are separated from the submarine and Old Fred (" Lucy in the Sky with Diamonds"). As they prepare to leave, Ringo feels sorry for the lonely Boob, and invites him to join them aboard the submarine. In the Sea of Nothing, the protagonists meet Jeremy Hillary Boob Ph.D., a short and studious creature (" Nowhere Man"). As they operate the submarine, they sing " All Together Now", after which they pass through several regions on their way to Pepperland, including the Sea of Time, where time flows both forwards and backwards (" When I'm Sixty-Four"), the Sea of Science (" Only a Northern Song") and the Sea of Monsters, where Ringo is rescued from monsters after being ejected from the submarine. The four decide to help Old Fred, as they call him, and journey with him back to Pepperland in the submarine. Ringo collects his mates John, George, and Paul. He travels to Liverpool (" Eleanor Rigby"), where he follows a depressed Ringo to "The Pier", a house-like building on the top of a hill, and persuades him to return to Pepperland with him. Fred takes off in the Yellow Submarine (" Yellow Submarine"). In the last minutes before his capture, Pepperland's elderly Lord Mayor sends Young Fred to get help. The Blue Meanies fire projectiles and drop apples (a reference to the Beatles' then-new company Apple Corps) that render Pepperland's residents immobile as statues, and drain the entire countryside of colour. ![]() The attack starts with a music-proof glass globe that imprisons the band. The land falls under a surprise attack from the music-hating Blue Meanies, who live beyond the mountains. At the edge of the land is a range of high blue mountains. The titular Yellow Submarine rests on an Aztec-like pyramid on a hill. Pepperland is a cheerful, music-loving paradise under the sea, home to Sgt.
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