Most people's recollections of this is that it's nonsensical self-indulgent and beyond amateurish.
Your memory is not lying to you but that doesn't mean that this is rubbish. If you're a die-hard Beatles fan and managed not just to sit through all eight hours of the Get Back sessions film but actually enjoyed it, you will love this.
It's not really a film, so don't expect anything like 'Help,' the slick, highly polished and properly made comedy. Magical Mystery Tour has none of these attributes. It is essentially an album filled in with what seems like whatever ideas were in the minds of John, George, Ringo and particularly Paul at the time. None of these extended pieces are funny, imaginative or indeed entertaining but for Beatles fans, inexplicably interesting.
It's also a rare opportunity to see on screen the wonderfully eccentric Scottish surrealist comedy-poet, Ivor Cutler.
Your memory is not lying to you but that doesn't mean that this is rubbish. If you're a die-hard Beatles fan and managed not just to sit through all eight hours of the Get Back sessions film but actually enjoyed it, you will love this.
It's not really a film, so don't expect anything like 'Help,' the slick, highly polished and properly made comedy. Magical Mystery Tour has none of these attributes. It is essentially an album filled in with what seems like whatever ideas were in the minds of John, George, Ringo and particularly Paul at the time. None of these extended pieces are funny, imaginative or indeed entertaining but for Beatles fans, inexplicably interesting.
It's also a rare opportunity to see on screen the wonderfully eccentric Scottish surrealist comedy-poet, Ivor Cutler.