more bono from across the universe
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above: a new clip of bono's cameo as dr. robert in across the universe. (different than the last clip of bono on the bus).
here's a collection of moustache-related snippets from a few movie reviews for across the universe. (click links for full reviews).
firstshowing.net
While nearly each and every song sung on screen was exhilarating, there were scenes and moments that felt unnecessarily added and pointlessly featured. Characters and story arcs felt added only to include a certain song. Unfortunately one of these involved the commanding presence of U2's Bono who sings a modern "I am the Walrus" and travels on a psychedelic bus to an even more psychedelic location in who-knows-where California.
ap review via palm beach post
None of the figures is fleshed out and they all feel like types — though Bono is a hoot in his first film role as an egotistical counterculture leader who sings "I Am the Walrus."
aintitcool.com
The cameos are hit and miss (Eddie Izzard's version of Mr. Kite might have been worse than George Burns', while Bono karaokes his way through a performance of I Am the Walrus, which at least was better than his acting as the plot's Ken Kesey stand-in) but the hits, particularly Joe Cocker ripping through Come Together, are home runs. The cast is solid both in vocal and acting talent, and Evan Rachel Wood especially is beyond luminous, becoming the perfect blonde American girl-next-door.
entertainment weekly
The story is all protests, rainbow crash pads, and solarized acid trips — a Hairy cliché fest, all reflected through the tale of a guy named Jude (Jim Sturgess) and a girl named Lucy (Evan Rachel Wood). I did like the underwater kissing to ''Because,'' plus Bono doing ''I Am the Walrus.'' He has presence (more than you can say for anyone else). But the thing about the Beatles is, their songs already are movies. They hardly needed to be fixing the hole of this one.
hollywood reporter
Bigger musical stars turn up in cameos. Joe Cocker plays three characters in a brilliant rendition of "Come Together," and he momentarily supplies the gleeful wit that the film desperately needs. Bono's performance of "I Am the Walrus" is another high point.
new york post
There's a sublime appearance by Joe Cocker, and five Salma Hayeks, in naughty-nurse mode, are sexy and disturbing singing "Happiness Is a Warm Gun" in a VA hospital. But Bono, looking like a gay biker, serves up campy bluster singing "I Am the Walrus."
boston globe
Oh, dear Lord, where to begin? Bono in a fright wig as Dr. Robert, singing "I Am the Walrus" on his way to meet the giant blue puppet people? "I Want You (She's So Heavy)" set to an image of US soldiers struggling to carry the Statue of Liberty to Vietnam? "I've Just Seen a Face" as an upbeat dance number set in a bowling alley? How to describe the blinding combination of artistic ambition, excess, and plain old bad taste that is "Across the Universe"?
philadelphia daily news
At other times, the famously eccentric Taymor does herself proud—a highlight is a drug-trip collage of animation, puppets, digital wizardry and inventive photography that features Bono as a guru preaching higher West Coast consciousness. The movie has its Janis Joplin and Jimi Hendrix stand-ins, but I'm not sure who Bono's meant to be. He claims both the Walrus AND the egg-man.
chicago tribune
The filmmakers' apparent desire to foreshadow every single song occasionally borders on parody--Jude, an artist, spends a lot of time with strawberries; his best friends include a very sexy Sadie and a loner named Prudence, who enjoys entering apartments via the bathroom window. That said, once you give in to the absurdity of a mustachioed Bono as Ken Kesey/Timothy Leary singing "I Am the Walrus" and overlook the cliche bacchanal in New York's Greenwich Village, you just might find yourself happily trying to spot the next ditty on the horizon.
seattlepi.com
In the film's most rousing sequence—and what has to be the most realistic movie acid-trip of all time—Bono, playing a psychedelic visionary with a touch of Timothy Leary, sings "I Am the Walrus" with the same self-inflated pizzazz that John Lennon gave it.
previously:
video: bono as dr. robert
across the universe soundtrack info
across the universe soundtrack: audio preview
the film opens in a limited release today and nationwide next friday, september 21. i'll probably see it this weekend. and report back...
above: a new clip of bono's cameo as dr. robert in across the universe. (different than the last clip of bono on the bus).
here's a collection of moustache-related snippets from a few movie reviews for across the universe. (click links for full reviews).
firstshowing.net
While nearly each and every song sung on screen was exhilarating, there were scenes and moments that felt unnecessarily added and pointlessly featured. Characters and story arcs felt added only to include a certain song. Unfortunately one of these involved the commanding presence of U2's Bono who sings a modern "I am the Walrus" and travels on a psychedelic bus to an even more psychedelic location in who-knows-where California.
ap review via palm beach post
None of the figures is fleshed out and they all feel like types — though Bono is a hoot in his first film role as an egotistical counterculture leader who sings "I Am the Walrus."
aintitcool.com
The cameos are hit and miss (Eddie Izzard's version of Mr. Kite might have been worse than George Burns', while Bono karaokes his way through a performance of I Am the Walrus, which at least was better than his acting as the plot's Ken Kesey stand-in) but the hits, particularly Joe Cocker ripping through Come Together, are home runs. The cast is solid both in vocal and acting talent, and Evan Rachel Wood especially is beyond luminous, becoming the perfect blonde American girl-next-door.
entertainment weekly
The story is all protests, rainbow crash pads, and solarized acid trips — a Hairy cliché fest, all reflected through the tale of a guy named Jude (Jim Sturgess) and a girl named Lucy (Evan Rachel Wood). I did like the underwater kissing to ''Because,'' plus Bono doing ''I Am the Walrus.'' He has presence (more than you can say for anyone else). But the thing about the Beatles is, their songs already are movies. They hardly needed to be fixing the hole of this one.
hollywood reporter
Bigger musical stars turn up in cameos. Joe Cocker plays three characters in a brilliant rendition of "Come Together," and he momentarily supplies the gleeful wit that the film desperately needs. Bono's performance of "I Am the Walrus" is another high point.
new york post
There's a sublime appearance by Joe Cocker, and five Salma Hayeks, in naughty-nurse mode, are sexy and disturbing singing "Happiness Is a Warm Gun" in a VA hospital. But Bono, looking like a gay biker, serves up campy bluster singing "I Am the Walrus."
boston globe
Oh, dear Lord, where to begin? Bono in a fright wig as Dr. Robert, singing "I Am the Walrus" on his way to meet the giant blue puppet people? "I Want You (She's So Heavy)" set to an image of US soldiers struggling to carry the Statue of Liberty to Vietnam? "I've Just Seen a Face" as an upbeat dance number set in a bowling alley? How to describe the blinding combination of artistic ambition, excess, and plain old bad taste that is "Across the Universe"?
philadelphia daily news
At other times, the famously eccentric Taymor does herself proud—a highlight is a drug-trip collage of animation, puppets, digital wizardry and inventive photography that features Bono as a guru preaching higher West Coast consciousness. The movie has its Janis Joplin and Jimi Hendrix stand-ins, but I'm not sure who Bono's meant to be. He claims both the Walrus AND the egg-man.
chicago tribune
The filmmakers' apparent desire to foreshadow every single song occasionally borders on parody--Jude, an artist, spends a lot of time with strawberries; his best friends include a very sexy Sadie and a loner named Prudence, who enjoys entering apartments via the bathroom window. That said, once you give in to the absurdity of a mustachioed Bono as Ken Kesey/Timothy Leary singing "I Am the Walrus" and overlook the cliche bacchanal in New York's Greenwich Village, you just might find yourself happily trying to spot the next ditty on the horizon.
seattlepi.com
In the film's most rousing sequence—and what has to be the most realistic movie acid-trip of all time—Bono, playing a psychedelic visionary with a touch of Timothy Leary, sings "I Am the Walrus" with the same self-inflated pizzazz that John Lennon gave it.
previously:
video: bono as dr. robert
across the universe soundtrack info
across the universe soundtrack: audio preview
the film opens in a limited release today and nationwide next friday, september 21. i'll probably see it this weekend. and report back...
posted by c at 12:00 AM
6 Comments:
i would definitely drink bono kool-aid
I'm so jealous - It's not playing anywhere around here! Can't wait to read your review.
Loved this new video. Especially a couple of McPhisto moves.
Not convinced yet. I'll wait for C's review, too.
Yeah, still want to make my final judgement once I see it. I also noticed the subtle Macphisto moves.
The whole soundtrack is on iTunes now for $9.99 or you can just download the Bono tracks for a dollar.
I'm torn, I want to see yer man on the big screen, but despise the Beatles and 60's nostalgia.
I'll just have to wait for the U2 Imax Experience.
Part of me really wants to see this, and the other part of me wants to run screaming from it. It's playing at one of the downtown Seattle cinemas ... I may have to have a jaunt tomorrow.
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