![]() A must-see for Beatles buffs and anyone interested in how the '60s looked as they were happening (rather than in slick, retrospective recreations) others might want to take a pass. ![]() The film's sense of humor is very English, and occasionally prefigures the antics of the Monty Python troupe Harrison later produced several Python-related feature films. Directed by George Harrison / John Lennon / Paul McCartney / Ringo Starr / Bernard Knowles Movie Information Synopsis Overview AllMovie Review. But the "kids" are the Beatles, and the film contains genuinely interesting moments, including the "I Am the Walrus" section, which can be lifted out of the film and played as a stand-alone music video. ![]() This quintessential 1960s artifact has the amateurish feel of a home movie made by a bunch of overgrown kids with as many goofy ideas as good ones and the money to indulge their every whim, which is pretty much what it is. It is the third film that starred the band and depicts a group of people on a coach tour who experience strange happenings caused by magicians. Pepper was a blueprint for the Beatles’ new utopianism a culture of vivid sensory experience, for which they could be the entertainers and court jesters the Magical Mystery Tour. The Bonzo Dog Band, who appear in the film, were basically a musical version of the Pythons. It is Python-esque, but it reflects the humor of The Goon Show, and British comedians like Dudley Moore and Peter Cook. It follows the Beatles as they rent a bus and take a trip — in both senses of the word, though there's no onscreen drug use — around the English countryside, have a variety of madcap adventures, sing (including "I Am the Walrus," "Fool on the Hill," "Blue Jay Way," "Flying," "Penny Lane" and "Your Mother Should Know") and end up at a ghastly spaghetti dinner. Like some of the Beatles' Christmas records, it has silly setups without a joke at the end. A typically Beatlesque film originally produced for television, this short film was intended to be an off-the-wall road movie with the Beatles and three dozen or so friends on a psychedelic bus. Directed and produced by Paul McCartney, John Lennon, George Harrison and Ringo Starr, (significantly, no-one takes a writing credit) and originally aired on the BBC, this loosely structured phantasmagoria was reportedly inspired by the antics of Ken Kesey and his Merry Pranksters. ![]()
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