If Ed Wood had a big budget and decided to make a musical, this would have been the result. This should have been called "Plan Nine From Hollywood."
This is one of those movies that is so inane that it angers you. The whole point was to get as many stars of 1978--the has-beens of 1979--into the movie and butcher a lot of Beatles classics. It smacks of a cheesy pretentiousness that you rarely see outside of the MTV video awards.
Yes, many of the artists had their careers blow up in flames after this movie. That's good, but it's not enough.
This is one of those movies that is so inane that it angers you. The whole point was to get as many stars of 1978--the has-beens of 1979--into the movie and butcher a lot of Beatles classics. It smacks of a cheesy pretentiousness that you rarely see outside of the MTV video awards.
Yes, many of the artists had their careers blow up in flames after this movie. That's good, but it's not enough.