If John and George weren’t dead already, “Across the Universe” might kill them. Sure, the late half of the Fab Four survived the atrocity of “Sgt. Pepper’s Lonely Heart’s Club Band”—that garish 1978 nightmare (George Burns is Mr.
Kite!). The problem is, “Universe” isn’t a crass cash-in like that was.
It’s the collaboration of really talented people who worked hard only to come up with a cringe-inducing magical history tour of the ’60s, harnessing some 30 Beatles tunes, sung by wide-eyed young folks as they’re swept into the maelstrom of free love, drugs and Army recruitment.
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