Across the Universe

Let me tell you, I was so excited for Across the Universe to come out. Everything about it looked so interesting. The fact it was an original and not a Broadway musical made into movie, or the bright color pallet you really don't see in movies, was really intreging. The effects used in the movie were definitely unique. It almost seemed the special effect crew ran down the list of every possible effect they could do, and crammed it into the movie. It also seemed like the writers so desperately wanted cram as many Beatles songs in as possible, so they created characters who really didn't serve much of a purpose other than their name happened to be mentioned in a song. There was one character named Prudence, who brought nothing to the plot. She just kind of hung out and was weird until they cast broke out in "Dear Prudence".
It is also the type of movie that I feel you either need to be pretty familiar with the 60's, or you need to be high to watch. The movie was very "artsy" and at some points just really strange, but I know there was probably meaning behind most of it that I am just not catching on to. I think its the type of movie you need to see more than once to fully appreciate it all, but for me, I'll wait until it comes out on DVD.