As in many musicals films , the music takes precedence over the actual plot, and most of the story is a series of set-pieces designed to present Beatles music set to various images. The songs include "Yellow Submarine," "Eleanor Rigby," "All Together Now," "Nowhere Man," "Lucy in the Sky With Diamonds," "Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band," "All You Need Is Love" and (in a live-action coda) the Beatles in person wisecracking and singing "All Together Now."
What mostly caught my attention during the film is eccentric , colorful animation.
The whole film is maintained in psychedelic atmosphere which for me is much to overwhelming. Definietely there is something true in the observation attributed to Ken Kesey: "They say it looks better when you're stoned. But that's true of all movies." The simple explaination to that grotesque is that the film's art director was Heinz Edelmann who was strongly inspired by Peter Max (one of the most famous pop art artist).
Nevetheless , this film which for me was so tiring to watched , paved the way for Terry Gilliam's animations for Do Not Adjust Your Set and Monty Python's Flying Circus, as well as the Schoolhouse Rock vignettes for ABC and similar looking animation in early seasons of Sesame Street and The Electric Company.
To sum up , I don't think that I would ever watch The Yellow Submarine again but I can't deny that it clarly had a great influence on future generations.
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