Review of Yellow Submarine (1968) by Fernando C — 27 Nov 2010

The 1968 animated box office classic written by Lee Minoff, Al Brodax, Jack Mendelsohn and Erich Segal based on The Beatles songs directed by George Dunning and Dennis Abey and starring The Beatles with Paul Angelis, John Clive, Dick Emery, Geoffrey Hughes, and Peter Batten is a masterpiece of the realm of animated films especially feature-length films. This psychedelic family comedy cult musical fantasy art animated and probably even surreal film based on the songs by The Beatles is a great influence on the cinematic genres of fantasy, animation, musical, children and art. The plot of this film in a way is very simple, the Beatles agree to save Pepperland from the evil Blue Meanies, but in another way the film itself is completely out of this world, filed with out of this world dimensions, adventure and characters. Filled with out of this world animation and crazy colors everywhere this film is also a masterpiece of mise-en scene. Yellow Submarine is also one of the first to feature animation mixed with live-action. On another note this is the first Beatles to not feature the quartet acting throughout the entire film, the only scenes where they actually participated where the musical numbers and at the end of the film when they make a brief appearance, throughout the entire film their characters were voiced by actors Paul Angelis, John Clive, Geoffrey Hughes and Peter Batten. But letâ(TM)s break these points into small paragraphs, first of all starting on the crew of this film.

This film has impacted cinema in many, many ways. It has impacted the animated feature film because it showed everybody that you can make out of this world universes filled with all sort of things and different colors and whatnot, it also demonstrated that you could apply the pop musical formula on animated films and it would work as well. Yellow Submarine also impacted the realms of art and fantasy cinema. The art genre because of its great use of colors, mise-en scene and music to create a fantastic musical experience and the fantasy genre because the film explores dimensions and out of this world characters not to mention that, although many people may not consider it, the film itself in a way is a fairy tale.

In conclusion the film is a great cinematic experience for all ages and cultures as well as a great contribution to cinema especially in the realms of animation, art films, fantasy and musical films.