The Beatles agree to accompany Captain Fred in his yellow submarine and go to Pepperland to free it from the music-hating Blue Meanies.The Beatles agree to accompany Captain Fred in his yellow submarine and go to Pepperland to free it from the music-hating Blue Meanies.The Beatles agree to accompany Captain Fred in his yellow submarine and go to Pepperland to free it from the music-hating Blue Meanies.
- Awards
- 2 wins & 2 nominations
Paul McCartney
- Paul
- (uncredited)
George Harrison
- George
- (uncredited)
Ringo Starr
- Ringo
- (uncredited)
John Lennon
- John
- (uncredited)
The Beatles
- The Beatles
- (singing voice)
- (as Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band)
Paul Angelis
- Ringo Starr
- (voice)
- …
John Clive
- John Lennon
- (voice)
Geoffrey Hughes
- Paul McCartney
- (voice)
- (as Geoff Hughes)
Lance Percival
- Old Fred
- (voice)
Peter Batten
- George
- (voice)
- (uncredited)
Storyline
Did you know
- TriviaThe Beatles hated "The Beatles (1965)," the television cartoon show of them, which was also produced by Al Brodax and George Dunning. When the producers approached them about this movie, the group agreed only as an easy way of completing their movie contract. They contributed a few old songs and four quickly produced numbers: "Only a Northern Song", "Hey Bulldog", "All Together Now", and "It's All Too Much". They were so impressed by the finished movie that they decided to appear in a short live-action epilogue to the movie.
- GoofsThe Beatles spot five Apple Bonkers taking apples off a tree. Only four Bonkers march and sound off before a Meanie Squad Leader.
- Crazy creditsThe lyric "All Together Now" is shown in several different languages while the song plays at the end.
- Alternate versionsThe American version had a brief (less than one second) scene of Old Fred and the Mayor dancing together happily, bringing closure to the initial scenes of the movie. This footage was not included in the redone American version.
- ConnectionsEdited from Dancing Lady (1933)
- SoundtracksYellow Submarine
Written by John Lennon and Paul McCartney
Performed by The Beatles
Published by Apple Records
Courtesy of Apple Records
Featured review
A Strange and Whimsical Little Film.
"Yellow Submarine" is one of the strangest, most surreal animated films that I've ever seen. I love the Beatles, and seeing this tribute to their music was fascinating. The songs were excellent, the animation was unusual (especially the unforgettable "Elanor Rigby" scene), and the characters were a lot of fun, including the eccentric Jeremy and the Chief Meanie.
The dialogue itself is cheeky and has some very clever one-liners. Old Fred's retelling of the the Blue Meanie invasion to the Fab Four remains a highly comical dialogue, and the final "battle" is simply bizarre. This is, without a doubt, a '60's movie. The messages and the visuals give you an idea of what it was like to live in that time, bombarding the viewer with some of the strangest and most imaginative visuals I had seen at the time. While the Beatles didn't provide their voices for the movie (outside a brief cameo at the end), the voice actors did an excellent job imitating the groups' mannerisms.
While it is said that the real journey is found in the travel, and not the destination, the actual trip to Pepperland takes up a huge majority of the story, providing a trip (in many senses of the word) that becomes less plot oriented and more of an animated musical showcase for the Beatles' music. While the music is excellent, this tends to make the pacing of the middle of the film drag significantly, becoming more an art piece than a story. In the closest comparison, "Yellow Submarine" becomes the "Fantasia" for the 1960's.
Despite a few quibbles here and there, I've remained fond of Yellow Submarine, its art style, and especially its music. All in all, a delightful film for Beatles fans and animation enthusiasts who have a taste for films that remain unique.
The dialogue itself is cheeky and has some very clever one-liners. Old Fred's retelling of the the Blue Meanie invasion to the Fab Four remains a highly comical dialogue, and the final "battle" is simply bizarre. This is, without a doubt, a '60's movie. The messages and the visuals give you an idea of what it was like to live in that time, bombarding the viewer with some of the strangest and most imaginative visuals I had seen at the time. While the Beatles didn't provide their voices for the movie (outside a brief cameo at the end), the voice actors did an excellent job imitating the groups' mannerisms.
While it is said that the real journey is found in the travel, and not the destination, the actual trip to Pepperland takes up a huge majority of the story, providing a trip (in many senses of the word) that becomes less plot oriented and more of an animated musical showcase for the Beatles' music. While the music is excellent, this tends to make the pacing of the middle of the film drag significantly, becoming more an art piece than a story. In the closest comparison, "Yellow Submarine" becomes the "Fantasia" for the 1960's.
Despite a few quibbles here and there, I've remained fond of Yellow Submarine, its art style, and especially its music. All in all, a delightful film for Beatles fans and animation enthusiasts who have a taste for films that remain unique.
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- GuyCC
- Oct 7, 1999
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- Language
- Also known as
- The Beatles' Yellow Submarine
- Filming locations
- Production companies
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Box office
- Budget
- £250,000 (estimated)
- Gross US & Canada
- $992,305
- Opening weekend US & Canada
- $107,105
- Jul 8, 2018
- Gross worldwide
- $1,273,261
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