In Regards to Julie Taymor’s Across the Universe
“It’s bad enough that Taymor’s story, written with longtime collaborators Dick Clement and Ian La Frenais, is simply a collection of hallucinogenic fantasies and era-specific clichés tenuously connected by Beatles hits. There are whole sections of the film — a psychedelic road trip featuring Bono’s forceful version of “Magical Mystery Tour,” for instance — that feel like music videos, rich in style but curiously purposeless.”
Rossiter Drake, ‘Across the Universe’ an invitation — best refused
