Chirphymium It's entirely possible that sending the audience out feeling lousy was intentional

AshUnow This is a small, humorous movie in some ways, but it has a huge heart. What a nice experience.

Juana what a terribly boring film. I'm sorry but this is absolutely not deserving of best picture and will be forgotten quickly. Entertaining and engaging cinema? No. Nothing performances with flat faces and mistaking silence for subtlety.

Billy Ollie Through painfully honest and emotional moments, the movie becomes irresistibly relatable

richardbutch69 This movie isn't as bad as everyone says it is. The songs are the best part of this movie. The problem is the rest of the movie. The acting is terrible, the direction is terrible. If a good director had been at the helm, this movie could have turned out pretty good. Aerosmith's version of Come Together is as good or better than The Beatles original. I think a better plot, better acting could have saved this film. Maybe have the singers just doing their versions of the Beatles songs and having regular actors doing all of the acting parts. When I watch the movie now, I just fast forward to the songs and skip the rest of the movie. I give this movie a 5 rating just for the songs.

rooprect Time & death has a funny way of smoothing over harsh criticism. What was deemed a colossal egg upon its release, certainly hated by discophobes and Beatles purists for its sacrilege back in the late 70s, "Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band" has since become a historical document on its own. Only 35 years later and after the deaths of 3 Bee Gees are we beginning to chill on our Bee Gees hatred and give this monumental group its due. If you watch this movie not as a Beatles tribute but perhaps as a wacky Bee Gees tribute, you'll enjoy yourself. This movie is a forgotten landmark of the 70s.The Bee Gees are known for their disco hits like "Stayin Alive" and such, but did you know that in the 60s they were a moderately successful psychedelic rock band quite similar to the Beatles? With that in mind, it's not so far fetched to imagine them playing Beatles music, and in fact they do a pretty good job if you can dump all preconceptions. The opening numbers "Sgt. Pepper" and "A Little Help from my Friends" (with Peter Frampton singing) kick the movie off nicely. I thought the best tune was "Nowhere Man" with their silky smooth harmonies. And where else are you going to hear basically the entire Sgt. Peppers & Abbey Road albums in a movie, Beatles or otherwise? Where this movie sags is in the fact that it's barely a movie. It's more like a string of campy music videos loosely stuck together with a somewhat vapid plot. But hey, aren't a lot of musicals like that?The plot revolves the Lonely Hearts Club Band: The Next Generation, 20 years after the original horn blowers left the stage. Now amped up and rockified, the new band tops the charts and is lured away from its hometown to LA with a record deal while an evil villain "Mr. Mustard" takes over their hometown and turns it into a city of sleaze. Mr. Mustard answers to an even eviller entity known as "F.V.B." (the meaning revealed only at the end). What follows is a very flimsy chain of events, each represented by a Beatles song. There is no dialogue in this film; it's all music.Production values are high, and you can expect to see some impressive sets, scenery & costumes as well as decent cinematography. In other words, it's not a cheap production. The style is very tongue-in-cheek, much like The Who's musical "Tommy" released 3 years prior. In fact I had to check to see if both films were directed or produced by the same people. They weren't. But if you were entertained by "Tommy" you'll probably get a kick out of this as well.I recommend getting acquainted with the Bee Gees before watching this movie. There's a good documentary called "The Bee Gees: In Our Own Time" which might open your eyes and prep you for a better experience if you decide to watch this. Only now, decades after the fall of disco and with only 1 Bee Gee still living, the band is finally getting some respectful treatment. Love em or hate em, you gotta admit they took the world by storm for a brief moment in music history.Notable guest musicians Earth Wind & Fire, Peter Frampton, Alice Cooper, Aerosmith, and a hilariously bizarre appearance by fancy-footed soul singer Billy Preston shooting laser beams of love from his fingertips round out this one-of-a-kind experience (Billy played electric piano on the Beatles' original "Get Back" which he sings here). I like to keep this DVD playing at loud volumes while I'm doing household chores to keep me moving. It may scare off some visitors, but then who needs em?

ghoudaprime Let's get the obvious out of the way: this is not the Beatles, and except for song writing credits, they had nothing to do with this film. That said, the music performances are over-the-top, beautiful, and fun. Some songs (here comes the part where a person becomes hated) are even better than the originals. Yes, the story is insane, but the music is immaculate with sets by the some of the leading artists of the time. It's easy to watch, fun to hear, and beautiful to see. The visuals and colors pop, setting your mind in a late '70 mood with out too much of a disco feel. Enjoy this movie when you watch it, don't compare it, and this gem will find it's way into your heart.

johnstonjames puke. this movie ruins brain cells. luckily i've ruined so many brain cells through substance abuse, or otherwise i'd be afraid to watch this.i hate hyperbole in film reviews but, THIS IS THE WORST MOVIE OF ALL TIME. well maybe not the worst, but it's gotta be in some top category for all things bad.if you like The Beatles, or even if you like good rock, stay away from this. your ears will never forgive you for subjecting them to this torture. and your eyes will become sore from all the horrid visuals. usually i like movies that are very visual, but even though 'Sgt. Pepper' is packed full of high energy visuals, the energy is wasted because the conception of each one is mundane and pedestrian in the worst way.what were they thinking? this movie seems like it was conceived and made by persons who were centuries removed from the original experience. i could see maybe a century from now that the filmmakers would be so far removed from the material that they wouldn't get it, but these idiots were there at the time. when 'Sgt. Pepper' the movie was made, it was only a few short years after The Fab Four broke up. i mean it's like, YOU WERE THERE AT THE TIME AND YOU STILL DIDN'T GET IT? boy is that thick. even Gen.X would probably interpret this better.who, in their right mind, would let doddering, old George Burns sing Beatles tunes and turn them into old soft shoe dances. but i didn't like any of the covers. not even the covers by greats like Alice Cooper, Areosmith and Peter Frampton were any good or could save this rot. and the 'Maxwell' cover by, the usually very funny, Steve Martin, is embarrassing and inane and overwrought.and what was up with the stupid stuff with the weather vane coming to life as Billy Preston at the movie's final? talk about plot holes. where did he come from and what did he have to do with anything? and the attempt to duplicate the Beatles famous 'Sgt. Pepper' album cover with a lot of, then current, celebrities, is a lameo duddy clunk.i don't have anything good to say about this big budget piece of crapola except that as a curiosity, it needs to be seen to be believed how bad it is. even as a bad movie it's no fun. it's budget is too large and the direction, although flat, seems like polished TV direction. that's a lot of the problem. the whole thing looks like an episode of 'Fantasy Island' or 'The Love Boat' gone terribly wrong.in fact, this whole movie is just plain wrong. it's an abomination to humanity and all that is good about western culture.i want to kill this movie. in fact i tried to flush it down the toilet but it didn't work.the DVD was too big to flush and my brother objected because he thinks it is a "good bad movie" and likes to laugh at it. i don't think this film is funny. it's evil and should be avoided because it's an offense to all that is good and right. oh no!!! my brother knows i'm writing this and he's trying to put the movie on right now to freak me out. Nooooooo!!! help me from the evil tyrants of inhumanity known as the Bee Gees.