I gotta say, if I'm ever falling off a building, it'd be pretty cool to be saved by Billy Preston. I'd rather be saved by him than most of the rest of the cast.
As a HUGE Beatles fan, watching this movie was like Alex being forced to watch Nazi films with Beethoven's the Symphony in the background in "A Clockwork Orange."
As a not so Beatles fan who really doesn’t like Abbey Road this movie is surprisingly entertaining Renditions of songs like “I Want You” “Because” and “Come Together” particularly with the visuals that go with “Because” and context with “I Want You”: I’d argue they’re improvements
Kiss were originally offered the part of Future Villain, but their management turned the part down due to Kiss fearing their "Superhero" image would be tarnished if they played villains.
Also, they had their own (tv) movie coming out the same year, "KISS Meets The Phantom Of The Park", and they were probably afraid of overexposure. 🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣 Damn, I thought I could get through saying that with a straight face. Oh well . . .
24:47 - I think the songs were chosen to FIT the TONE and FEEL of the SCENES in this movie, not match up with them in every detail lyric for line and name for name.
This was back when PG wasn't just limited to "family" films. It was a time when Parental Guidance meant more than a fart joke. It meant Parental Guidance.
Causing Alice to fall face down into a cream pie - the best scene in the movie! The second best scene was Alice lifting his head momentarily and then plopping his face back into the pie. How come no one threw cream pies at the producers? :-D
@@iHeartsNostalgiaPitNow I just did. Ironic, Dr. Pepper did some advertising, and the original name for the album was "Dr. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band".
My best friend and I discovered The Beatles (we knew of them and their songs but actually started listening to their stuff and becoming fans) in middle school almost 10 years ago, and of course we became obsessed, had to consume every piece of media related to them. Yes, even the solo movies they were in, even Ringo's shitty Caveman one and the one where he's in brownface and bangs a woman on a pool table. But none of those were as hard to watch as this movie. We watched it during a sleepover, and oh my god.... listen, I love disco, I love the Bee Gees.... but my friend literally fell asleep during this long-ass, confused movie. I kept waking her up just so I wouldn't have to suffer alone, because after that Maxwell's Silver Hammer bit, I couldn't fall asleep. What the fuck, Hollywood! I'm curious what the stage play is like, I'm sure it's much better. Hopefully, lmao...
I hear the stage play was an Off-Broadway success and has a bit of what would be in the movie. According to Wikipedia, "The plot tells of a Candide-like rock music singer, Billy Shears, who marries Strawberry Fields. Billy loses her to death, and his own integrity to Maxwell's Silver Hammermen, Jack, Sledge and Claw, dressed in chain mail and representing the Hells Angels of the commercial music business. Billy's bête noire is a temptress named Lucy." The play was apparently so good, John Lennon himself attended several rehearsals as well as the Opening Night with his personal assistant May Pang.
So.... They got as many 70s rock bands as possible... but not a single member of the band who wrote and performed the songs this is inspired by... Ugh this will be painful won't it?
Well conseriding this was 2 years before johns death i highly doubt it would have mattered if this flim came out after johns death it would have left a more sour taste in my mouth
@@Pizzaguy975 John Lennon had to sit through this movie as in-flight entertainment on a flight from Paris to New York . . . and then a snowstorm forced the plan to circle JFK until it was clear to land, and during that time the movie was re-screened. OUCH!
@cybertek3188 They tried. It did not go so well, from what I heard. They either wanted them for the opening or get Paul as the Billy Preston Weather Vane.
OMG i forgot he mentioned Across the Universe at the end! I love that movie but it's so fucking weird. Very WTF Hollywood. He should def review it one day.
To be honest. If the Beatles were actually involved it might have had a chance. Kind of a live action yellow submarine. Then again magical mystery tour kinda sucked so who knows
@@cybertek3188 Stigwood wanted Paul McCartney to play Sgt. Pepper. He had to settle for Billy Preston. Preston had actually made his screen debut twenty years earlier, playing W.C. Handy as a child in 'St. Louis Blues."
@@Frank-dv4zu disco is still better than one direction, Miley the hack, Megan Trainor, any demi or Bieber anything. Do you really want a list of the worst music over disco,it's long
Disco actually evolved into modern dance music. Later disco songs would often use synths and drum machines which is now common for techno and electronica. And freestyle and house music were the result of disco evolving in the early 80s.
First of all, yes, this was a terrible movie. The performances made me cringe, and the fact that The Beatles were not involved at all was a recipe for disaster. But jesus, Peter Frampton was a truly beautiful man.
Check out Jimmy Guterman's and Owen O'Donnell's 1991 book "The Worst Rock 'n' Roll Records of All Time." They explained the Sgt. Pepper movie and soundtrack as a recipe for disaster ("Bring together Peter Frampton and the Bee Gees . . . Base the movie's music on 'Sgt. Pepper . . . Ask Frampton and the Brothers Gibb to act . . . Expect them to act . . . ) The soundtrack album was number 43 on their list of the 50 worst rock and roll albums ever, thought they ranked it too low. (They ranked Jethro Tull's 'Aqualung' one of my favorite albums - at number 11. WTF?)
I like how in the Moment by Moment review he says "this isn't Saturday Night Fever Stigwood this is Sgt. Pepper's Loney Hearts Club Band Stigwood." And then in this review he (probably unintentionally) says the same joke.
so glad this is back up. I remember seeing this review when it first came out, and also grew up with this cheesy movie. Arguably much better than Xanadu in its camp value.
I've seen this review about 5x and I can't stop cracking up on Mr. S.G.'s hilarious remarks! " It's like We Are The World...with bad intentions!"!🤣 Thank you sir.
I watched this movie once when my brief obsession with the bee gees was at its height and I remember virtually none of it. Thanks man. This was delightfully camp and oh so stupid.
One random vinyl record I picked up a decade ago from an estate giveaway was Sgt Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band, meant to tie in with the movie, but had the caveat "Not the actual soundtrack" on the cover. This was pretty much typical of 1970s record collections of cover songs. Pretty sure the original buyer was feeling pretty gypped.
I saw this in the theater when it came out when I was seven. My parents and their friends took me an their kids to see it. They were all stoned for sure. The two things that stuck with me about the movie was how cool the Lucy In The Sky sequence was and how ugly I thought Aerosmith were. I did have the soundtrack.
Kemal Alis Though whoever thought "When I'm 64" needed to be a villain song (Snippet @21:16) should have been drug out to the street and bludgeoned with an N64. Oh wait, this was released in the 70's... a C64 would do.
At least Lennon and McCartney got a few bucks in royalties. Plus it gave Brad a chance to make fun of it. How did America ever get out of the 1970's alive.
When the weather vane came to life and just became a Deus Ex Machina and freaking beamed Strawberry back to life I DIED. How could I have possibly expected that??
Idk if I ever saw this review back in the day. I don't think I ever knew this existed! I have this movie and loved how goofy it is! I'm glad you uploaded this!
My theory on this movie is that (like Howard the Duck) there was no actual human intelligence behind it. It was simply the result of the universe balancing out all the good energy that the Beatles' Sgt. Pepper's put out into the world.
Would it have made the film make sense if they went with the original idea: The Bee Gees and Peter Frampton having actual lines, and George Burns was nowhere to be seen?
...so...this doesn't really seem THAT bad. It's filmed fine, looks nice, has great music, and it's goofiness is intentional. If you think about it, those are many of the qualities of cheesy 80's film we all love, it's just lacking shoot-outs and one-liners. It looks like a goofy, fun movie.
Ah, truly one of my favorite reviews, and thanks to you, I now relived my nightmare with Alice Cooper on a freaking screen. Well, like everyone else has been asking (or just me) More of the best of the Cinema Snob episodes! Like Robot Jox, which reminds me, will you ever do a Crash and Burn review? Seriously I have been eager to see more weird 80's sci-fi films.
Well, I think this reviewer sounds like kinda a tool himself when he says things like "I don't think that's what happens when a plane crashes into a balloon!" . I mean, it sounds like THIS guy was just a bit too much of a REALIST with THIS flick! It IS, after all, supposed to be a FANTASY! . .. understand THAT at least before critiquing it! Oh, and THAT's World War ONE - that's why it showed the 1920's and Great Depression afterward), .. . genius!!!!!!!!!!!
I pored through Steven Tyler's memoir, "Does The Noise In My Head Bother You?", for mention of this movie. Yes, there's a brief focus that I thought you might find diverting. *To be involved in ANYTHING that was slightly related to the Beatles was a dream come true. But with us, dreams were never quite what they seemed--they were either wet or a nightmare. "We'll do it!" I said. Then, I read the script. And here it comes: I get killed in the end? And by Frampton? I talked with the film's producer, Robert Stigwood, in his office, and had to put on my skis just to get to his desk. After three hours of me telling him, "I'm not gonna be Framptonized," they blew smoke up my ass by telling me I wouldn't die in the movie. They would set my clothes on fire and I'd melt like the Wicked Witch of the West. That was how it was supposed to be. The most fun I had doing the movie was when I was strangling Strawberry Fields (played by Sandy Farina) with my microphone scarves and she kicked me off the stage and watched me plummet thirty feet into an airbag. Of course I had to do it twenty times...just for shits and giggles, 'cause I loved it. Not to mention, as I fell, I could see up Strawberry's shortcake.* Even in the villain role, we KNEW Tyler would get some. Plus, the Future Villain Band made out great by meeting George Martin, who co-engineered that version of "Come Together", and anticipated doing an entire album with them.
24:47 - I think the songs were chosen to FIT the TONE and FEEL of the SCENES in this movie, not match up with them in every detail lyric for line and name for name.
Cocaine in whiskey sounds like it'd taste awful. Also, I knew I knew who that was, but it wasn't until he said so that I realized that was George Burns.
Glad I watched the new episode as soon as it came out AND (Insert complaint about them ending WW1 not WW2) Get your Wars right in a 4 year old video next time Snob!
I'm sorry you had to sit thru this movie. I saw it when it was new and even as a little kid I knew, deep in my soul, how terrible it was. Why are those wine glasses so huge? WHY?!
I hate to be that guy, but I think the opening war scene was WWI, because of the costumes, and because they show that clip later in the opening narration of soldiers sitting around a tank with women who look like the Andrews' Sisters, marking the passage of time from the teens to the 40s.
💥In retrospect, there's really nothing wrong with the silly script as it really IS a silly film. The problem is not the movie itself but how it was hyped up and so grandeurly introduced to the media & public. Just before production began, It was heralded as the "Gone With The Wind" of the 70's!😳 Holy Crapo! Even now in 2021, nothing comes close to that 1940s Epic! So everyone was anticipating a more serious musical extravaganza and not kid-humor cartoonish cliché stuff. Second, the pressure was on Frampton's & The BEE GEES's Beatles' performances. Of course, they will never satisfy Beatles fans despite George Martin's first hand arrangements & production, especially the Gibbs still fresh from the SNF soundtrack phenomena. To Fab Four fans, it was sacrilegious to even emulate such a legendary album & catalogue, to the outside audience, it was mixed reviews. But because the audience felt cheated & ridiculed by expecting what the movie was hyped for, only to be on the caliber of downright silly everything like the Airplane or Hot Shots franchise where you're not suppose to mind the story and just enjoy the soundtrack & some visuals & gags, and that's it! Word of mouth was fierce as a pre-ordered 3 million initial ordered shipping of the double album vinyl became bargain bin fillers after 3 wks of theater release. Also, although the soundtrack faired quite well with Robin's jazzy R&B version of Oh, Darling! went to Top 15, it was a downward spiral after that since the public has heard enough of the negativity and just wanted out. I must admit that Frampton's The Long and Winding Road can stand side by side with Paul's with Peter's solo lead, but Barry's A Day In A Life was just too loose of an arrangement (even more loose than the original) and that sound together with the other renditions without tight arrangements just won't hold in the late 70's. That's exactly the reason why Aerosmith's Come Together & EW&F Got to Get...were the only (2) saving grace tracks in the album. You can play them now and they will still sound fresh and undated. Frampton was actually on the way out when the movie came out and his last hit I'm In You was already stale in the public's ears, which i honestly felt became a hit due to the spill of his ...Comes Alive monster album. If Frampton came out with at least a Top 10 song from his next studio album after Pepper (Where I Belong), it may have kept him afloat for a little while more, but the album didn't even enter the Top 100. The BEE GEES actually came out unscathed as a 'paradox' happened. While both critics & the public were vomiting on the thought of the Pepper movie, millions all over the world were simultaneously embracing the their new studio album 'Spirits [Having Flown]'. It spawned (3) No.1 hits in the US to connect with their previous (3) No. 1s from the SNF soundtrack. So, they were enjoying the best of times while in the midst of that is the worst of movies, not so much of the movie itself, but the way it was misleadingly introduced to the public --- ■
Frampton's 1979 album was titled 'Where I Should Be.' He was clearly making a statement with that title about how he should be seen as an artist, not as a teen idol or a Beatle wannabe.
7:36-The CEO of The Philips Corporation is listening in! He’s gonna use your song out of context! But there’s something even worse-24 years later Universal Studios, who made this bomb, is going to use this same song in another bomb-THE CAT IN THE HAT!!
4 года назад
Covered by the most overrated appealing-to-tweens band of the late '90s/early 2000s Smash Mouth.
Tad Sharp Confidentially, I LOVE The Cat In The Hat! And that song was one of the best parts of the movie! I also LOVE the movie Sgt Pepper’s Lonely Hearts Club Band! I don’t know why-maybe it’s that great soundtrack with Peter Frampton and The Bee Gees! Maybe it’s how corny and strange the movie is! But I LOVE it!
This was Casablanca compared to Give My Regards to Broad Street, and that had 2 Beatles, a Bond Girl and Tracey Ullman. When I saw who the director was, I did a double take and did a "wait - WHAT"? The director of Cooley High, Car Wash, Which Way Is Up..made Sgt Pepper??
I gotta say, if I'm ever falling off a building, it'd be pretty cool to be saved by Billy Preston. I'd rather be saved by him than most of the rest of the cast.
i would want them to save me if o were falling off a building theyre cool
As a HUGE Beatles fan, watching this movie was like Alex being forced to watch Nazi films with Beethoven's the Symphony in the background in "A Clockwork Orange."
It's a sin! It's a sin!
@@martinboyle9163 “You’re not cured yet, boy.”
As a not so Beatles fan who really doesn’t like Abbey Road this movie is surprisingly entertaining
Renditions of songs like “I Want You” “Because” and “Come Together” particularly with the visuals that go with “Because” and context with “I Want You”: I’d argue they’re improvements
Kiss were originally offered the part of Future Villain, but their management turned the part down due to Kiss fearing their "Superhero" image would be tarnished if they played villains.
oh in a different world, well to be fair at one point they were considered a Heavy Metal Beatles
That sounds incredible. I wanna go into an alternate reality with a dozen doobies to watch that masterpiece.
Also, they had their own (tv) movie coming out the same year, "KISS Meets The Phantom Of The Park", and they were probably afraid of overexposure. 🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣
Damn, I thought I could get through saying that with a straight face. Oh well . . .
Kiss , had their own flop to handle Kiss meets the Phantom of the Park.
That’s actually not true. I was interviewing Gene Simmons recently and asked him that and he said no.
This video is infinitely more entertaining than the movie itself.
I think the guy from Yesterday would be glad that this movie was erased from existence.
Yesterday Man saw Sgt. Peoper’s and had a crisis over whether or not this whole “Beatles” superpower was worth it after all.
@@modflowerr9360 they made the movie as a joke but it fcked the bee gees up big time
24:47 - I think the songs were chosen to FIT the TONE and FEEL of the SCENES in this movie, not match up with them in every detail lyric for line and name for name.
TRUTH
Donald Pleasence performing I Want You (She's So Heavy) is life changing.
😃
The "Here comes the sun" joke is one of my all time Snob favourites.
Finally, no Russian sub copies.
сука
It's not pure enough!
Im so fucking lonely
@Иов Борецкий Me neither.
@Иов Борецкий Maybe he's referring to the videos with Russian dubs.
This was back when PG wasn't just limited to "family" films. It was a time when Parental Guidance meant more than a fart joke. It meant Parental Guidance.
I miss those kinds of films.
Don’t Stop The Music was PG and it showed boobs
18:10 Barry Gibb...Just punched Alice Cooper.Did anyone feel a draft? Because i think hell just froze over
Causing Alice to fall face down into a cream pie - the best scene in the movie! The second best scene was Alice lifting his head momentarily and then plopping his face back into the pie. How come no one threw cream pies at the producers? :-D
@@stevenmaginnis1965 because they learned their lesson from The Great Race and Dr Strangelove
I think it was lemon meringue: it actually makes for good cushioning. This is why he collapsed right back in
Nowadays Sgt Peppers just sits around bragging about how one of his kids is a doctor.
oh I just got it
@@iHeartsNostalgiaPitNow I just did. Ironic, Dr. Pepper did some advertising, and the original name for the album was "Dr. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band".
this movie was like gone with the wind for the simple fact my dear that audiences frankly did not give a damm
Should've uploaded this on August 10. Y'know, the 60th anniversary of Sgt. Pepper's passing. #NeverForget
:-D :-D
I love how insane this movie is. This is one of my favorite reviews.
Ditto
It’s dumber than shit but it’s entertaining
Lost my shit at Maurice photobombing his own movie there.
RIP Mo & Robin
Stigwood was the inspiration for the clueless old studio magnate in _This Is Spinal Tap._
My best friend and I discovered The Beatles (we knew of them and their songs but actually started listening to their stuff and becoming fans) in middle school almost 10 years ago, and of course we became obsessed, had to consume every piece of media related to them. Yes, even the solo movies they were in, even Ringo's shitty Caveman one and the one where he's in brownface and bangs a woman on a pool table.
But none of those were as hard to watch as this movie. We watched it during a sleepover, and oh my god.... listen, I love disco, I love the Bee Gees.... but my friend literally fell asleep during this long-ass, confused movie. I kept waking her up just so I wouldn't have to suffer alone, because after that Maxwell's Silver Hammer bit, I couldn't fall asleep. What the fuck, Hollywood!
I'm curious what the stage play is like, I'm sure it's much better. Hopefully, lmao...
I saw Caveman, although that movie is a masterpiece if you compare it to other bad movies, but yea I too am curious about the stage play too.
Holy hell, Caveman was funny as hell. Plus, young Dennis Quaid is always a bonus
I hear the stage play was an Off-Broadway success and has a bit of what would be in the movie. According to Wikipedia, "The plot tells of a Candide-like rock music singer, Billy Shears, who marries Strawberry Fields. Billy loses her to death, and his own integrity to Maxwell's Silver Hammermen, Jack, Sledge and Claw, dressed in chain mail and representing the Hells Angels of the commercial music business. Billy's bête noire is a temptress named Lucy." The play was apparently so good, John Lennon himself attended several rehearsals as well as the Opening Night with his personal assistant May Pang.
3:20 *In Comic Book Guy's voice* Actually it took place during World War I, thank you very much.
It didn't matter. They won BOTH World Wars this way. Plus, during the Roaring 20s, the Great Depression, and the Economic Recovery.
The look of the soldiers and the flags made this fairly obvious, not sure why Snob thought of WWII.
He had a joke involving Inglorious Bastards Footage and, damn it, he’s gonna use it
So.... They got as many 70s rock bands as possible... but not a single member of the band who wrote and performed the songs this is inspired by... Ugh this will be painful won't it?
bigevilworldwide1 then get at least 1 to do a cameo even Ringo would work
Even a cameo would've made the film a little better.
Well conseriding this was 2 years before johns death i highly doubt it would have mattered if this flim came out after johns death it would have left a more sour taste in my mouth
@@Pizzaguy975 John Lennon had to sit through this movie as in-flight entertainment on a flight from Paris to New York . . . and then a snowstorm forced the plan to circle JFK until it was clear to land, and during that time the movie was re-screened. OUCH!
@cybertek3188 They tried. It did not go so well, from what I heard. They either wanted them for the opening or get Paul as the Billy Preston Weather Vane.
I agree with Brad. The covers in this movie are great, everything else is weird. Speaking of weird, I hope he puts up his review of The Apple next.
OMG i forgot he mentioned Across the Universe at the end! I love that movie but it's so fucking weird. Very WTF Hollywood. He should def review it one day.
So this movie is basically Oogie Loves but with instruments instead of balloons
Loved this movie as a kid and have come to realize that as a kid I had not so great taste in film. Thank Snob! :)
I guess we'll have to wait until Hilary comes back.
Wes Papes
It'll be back once Brad can get it up. And that isn't an innuendo.
So, I didn't imagine there was a cinema snob hilarys America episode earlier. I thought it got Mandela effected.
Those Berenstain Bears at it again
ZekeStaright I thought it was the flash or trunks fault😆
You’re telling me it wasn’t Berenstein?
Nobody in the comments caught that God joke, Brad, but I caught it and thought it was pretty damn funny
I did...but smiles and laughs don't show on the internet. George Burns...what an odd career.
I caught it
17:44
"So THAT was Alice Cooper."
"You should see his sister: James Fenimore!"
NO! Don’t scroll down the... wait wrong video.
To be honest. If the Beatles were actually involved it might have had a chance. Kind of a live action yellow submarine. Then again magical mystery tour kinda sucked so who knows
A Hard's Day Night and Help! were good specially the former.
Hell a cameo by one of the beatles would've made the film a little better.
hey why not George showed up in The Rutles All You Need is Cash
@@cybertek3188 Stigwood wanted Paul McCartney to play Sgt. Pepper. He had to settle for Billy Preston. Preston had actually made his screen debut twenty years earlier, playing W.C. Handy as a child in 'St. Louis Blues."
Magical Mystery Tour sucked because the Beatles tried to make it themselves.
Creeps in quietly and whispers, "I liked this movie when it came out and I still do." Runs away quickly.
Haha ha!
And while your at it watch out for any Blue Meanies!
You know, Brad was right. Disco DOESN'T sound so bad in hindsight...
This episode comes from 2014, so the year after Get Lucky.
disco still sucks and always will!
No, it really does.
@@Frank-dv4zu disco is still better than one direction, Miley the hack, Megan Trainor, any demi or Bieber anything. Do you really want a list of the worst music over disco,it's long
Disco actually evolved into modern dance music. Later disco songs would often use synths and drum machines which is now common for techno and electronica. And freestyle and house music were the result of disco evolving in the early 80s.
First of all, yes, this was a terrible movie. The performances made me cringe, and the fact that The Beatles were not involved at all was a recipe for disaster.
But jesus, Peter Frampton was a truly beautiful man.
Check out Jimmy Guterman's and Owen O'Donnell's 1991 book "The Worst Rock 'n' Roll Records of All Time." They explained the Sgt. Pepper movie and soundtrack as a recipe for disaster ("Bring together Peter Frampton and the Bee Gees . . . Base the movie's music on 'Sgt. Pepper . . . Ask Frampton and the Brothers Gibb to act . . . Expect them to act . . . ) The soundtrack album was number 43 on their list of the 50 worst rock and roll albums ever, thought they ranked it too low. (They ranked Jethro Tull's 'Aqualung' one of my favorite albums - at number 11. WTF?)
4:27 I hate to rip on a death scene, but it just looked like Sgt. pepper powered off. lol
I like how in the Moment by Moment review he says "this isn't Saturday Night Fever Stigwood this is Sgt. Pepper's Loney Hearts Club Band Stigwood." And then in this review he (probably unintentionally) says the same joke.
This movie looks trippier than the end of Xanadu. Plus it has American Peter Frampton, Leif Garrett, in the crowd scene at the end.
@Richard Rykard He was calling Lief Garret the AMERICAN Peter Frampton
@Richard Rykard He became an American citizen after 9/11
so glad this is back up. I remember seeing this review when it first came out, and also grew up with this cheesy movie. Arguably much better than Xanadu in its camp value.
Xanadu drags a bit, but some great songs and amaaazing finale! The plot is corny...but true art compared to Peppers.
Compared to can’t stop the music sgt pepper is citizen kane
@@ilovemickyandhelove1The Apple - Hold my beer.
I've seen this review about 5x and I can't stop cracking up on Mr. S.G.'s hilarious remarks!
" It's like We Are The World...with bad intentions!"!🤣
Thank you sir.
I watched this movie once when my brief obsession with the bee gees was at its height and I remember virtually none of it. Thanks man. This was delightfully camp and oh so stupid.
I saw it at the drive in when it first came out, and I loved it ever since.
OMG so nice to see this back up. i LOVE this review. now if he would get "Guyana: Cult of the Damned" on here, I'll be golden.
I can't really hate on this movie, it's too much of my childhood.
The epitome of "just buy the soundtrack unless you're high as fuck"
I bought both
Thank you for re-uploading this, another classic episode.
Came to hear Alice Cooper, Earth Wind and Fire, and Aerosmith. Was not disappointed.... With the soundtrack at least.
Think of it as a series of music videos
Honestly Alice makes the song “Because” truly his own
One random vinyl record I picked up a decade ago from an estate giveaway was Sgt Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band, meant to tie in with the movie, but had the caveat "Not the actual soundtrack" on the cover. This was pretty much typical of 1970s record collections of cover songs. Pretty sure the original buyer was feeling pretty gypped.
I saw this in the theater when it came out when I was seven. My parents and their friends took me an their kids to see it. They were all stoned for sure. The two things that stuck with me about the movie was how cool the Lucy In The Sky sequence was and how ugly I thought Aerosmith were. I did have the soundtrack.
How would you do the Aerosmith
I'll give the movie this: Like Brad said, the soundtrack was excellent. And that's the only praise I could give to this movie.
21:25 And nowadays, that sign is put next to the CEOs of Activision, EA, and Konami's offices.
Kemal Alis
Though whoever thought "When I'm 64" needed to be a villain song (Snippet @21:16) should have been drug out to the street and bludgeoned with an N64. Oh wait, this was released in the 70's... a C64 would do.
I ordered the soundtrack. Have it on vinyl but somehow mine came with two of the same LPS... I do love the Bee Gees so I think I will like the album!
At least Lennon and McCartney got a few bucks in royalties. Plus it gave Brad a chance to make fun of it. How did America ever get out of the 1970's alive.
Steely Dan got us through it.
Cocaine
Who says we did? Have they made the 37th Star Wars film yet?
Well Reagan was elected shortly after so I don’t think it did
Even after seven years, those robots are still fucking terrifying.
Just watched this movie. You are so on point.
KISS were supposed to play the Evil Band from the future but Gene Simmons refused to be beaten in a fight by Peter Frampton.
Before Kiss, Mick Jagger was under consideration to play the Future Villain.
This makes Spice World look like Casablanca.
Skolney No, this is definitely more watchable than Spice World.
It’s the modern Gone With The Wind
_The Great Skycopter Rescue_ also has a hot air balloon in it - maybe the scriptwriter was going for a recurring theme.
As soon as I knew this was posted I knew there would be a reference to Across the Universe LOL
When the weather vane came to life and just became a Deus Ex Machina and freaking beamed Strawberry back to life I DIED. How could I have possibly expected that??
It’s not a deus ex machina: it’s THE Deus Ex Machina!
Honestly why couldn’t Sandy Farina’s character just be named Loretta?
Idk if I ever saw this review back in the day. I don't think I ever knew this existed! I have this movie and loved how goofy it is! I'm glad you uploaded this!
This is what bad musical movies used to look like. Now they look like Cats
And I unironically like both
Wouldn't it had have more sense if "Strawberry Fields" was called Loretta to beging with?
Never seen this channel before; this was hysterical.
It's taken me a few years to decide but I think between this and Sunday School Musical, this is better. You're jokes and timing are spot on
Now I'm wanting the soundtrack to this.
My theory on this movie is that (like Howard the Duck) there was no actual human intelligence behind it. It was simply the result of the universe balancing out all the good energy that the Beatles' Sgt. Pepper's put out into the world.
I know it's bad but I unironically love this movie.
Would it have made the film make sense if they went with the original idea: The Bee Gees and Peter Frampton having actual lines, and George Burns was nowhere to be seen?
...so...this doesn't really seem THAT bad. It's filmed fine, looks nice, has great music, and it's goofiness is intentional. If you think about it, those are many of the qualities of cheesy 80's film we all love, it's just lacking shoot-outs and one-liners. It looks like a goofy, fun movie.
Watch it in its entirety…..
Ah, truly one of my favorite reviews, and thanks to you, I now relived my nightmare with Alice Cooper on a freaking screen. Well, like everyone else has been asking (or just me) More of the best of the Cinema Snob episodes! Like Robot Jox, which reminds me, will you ever do a Crash and Burn review? Seriously I have been eager to see more weird 80's sci-fi films.
That would be cool to see. I'm still holding out on a review for Rats: Night of Terror (since Brad's mentioned it a lot of times on the show).
Bijan: But how about that pie, huh? :-D
Waste Of Talent: The Movie!
Bobby Peru now dont get it twisted
I thought that was Movie 43?
To Boldy Flee?
@@SnakeRoadComicsOfficial3677 Yeah, there's no two ways about that.
Well, I think this reviewer sounds like kinda a tool himself when he says things like "I don't think that's what happens when a plane crashes into a balloon!" . I mean, it sounds like THIS guy was just a bit too much of a REALIST with THIS flick! It IS, after all, supposed to be a FANTASY! . .. understand THAT at least before critiquing it! Oh, and THAT's World War ONE - that's why it showed the 1920's and Great Depression afterward), .. . genius!!!!!!!!!!!
I died when he called the "horse" Secretariat!
So I'm guessing Cinema Snob isn't gonna be reviewing Cool Kat Saves The Kids anytime soon?
Now that's what I call old school
I hope he is considering this. That has Cinema Snob all over it.
MFields2178 I'm just hoping Daddy Derek lets us be happy. We want to see Erik Estrada and Vivica A Fox with Cool Cat
It's no Yellow Submarine but its definitely insanely funny
I adore this film, from the previous 4 yr old.
I pored through Steven Tyler's memoir, "Does The Noise In My Head Bother You?", for mention of this movie. Yes, there's a brief focus that I thought you might find diverting.
*To be involved in ANYTHING that was slightly related to the Beatles was a dream come true. But with us, dreams were never quite what they seemed--they were either wet or a nightmare.
"We'll do it!" I said. Then, I read the script. And here it comes: I get killed in the end? And by Frampton?
I talked with the film's producer, Robert Stigwood, in his office, and had to put on my skis just to get to his desk. After three hours of me telling him, "I'm not gonna be Framptonized," they blew smoke up my ass by telling me I wouldn't die in the movie. They would set my clothes on fire and I'd melt like the Wicked Witch of the West. That was how it was supposed to be.
The most fun I had doing the movie was when I was strangling Strawberry Fields (played by Sandy Farina) with my microphone scarves and she kicked me off the stage and watched me plummet thirty feet into an airbag. Of course I had to do it twenty times...just for shits and giggles, 'cause I loved it. Not to mention, as I fell, I could see up Strawberry's shortcake.*
Even in the villain role, we KNEW Tyler would get some. Plus, the Future Villain Band made out great by meeting George Martin, who co-engineered that version of "Come Together", and anticipated doing an entire album with them.
Is it just me, or does Steven Tyler sing "Here come old flat top, he come grooving up slowly" as "Yeah, come on, flat jaw, he come oozing out soda?" 😄
My favorite review! Thank you for the reupload unto your channel, Snob!
Wow, thank you for bringing this insanity to my attention!
24:47 - I think the songs were chosen to FIT the TONE and FEEL of the SCENES in this movie, not match up with them in every detail lyric for line and name for name.
this was a staple on the early HBO......i must have seen it 100 times.....a Xanadu-esq guilty pleasure.
Cocaine in whiskey sounds like it'd taste awful.
Also, I knew I knew who that was, but it wasn't until he said so that I realized that was George Burns.
I miss Snobby...
The first review I saw of the Cinema Snob!!
This is one of my favorite musicals 😂
Glad to see it again!
This movie is better than Across the Universe.
Glad I watched the new episode as soon as it came out
AND
(Insert complaint about them ending WW1 not WW2) Get your Wars right in a 4 year old video next time Snob!
This soundtrack is my favorite album of all time.
You ought to check out Shout! Factory's Blu-Ray release!!!
@3:20 .... That's World War ONE . ;)
Well,to be fair, the AFV looks more like a WWII design, and it carries the white star insignia of a WWII Western Allies vehicle.
The uniforms were clearly not WWII.
The first line in the movie was, "The war to end all wars did not end soon enough." Where was Sgt. Pepper's band in 1914?
I'm sorry you had to sit thru this movie. I saw it when it was new and even as a little kid I knew, deep in my soul, how terrible it was. Why are those wine glasses so huge? WHY?!
Alice Cooper is definitely the best part of this
Goddamn. This movie is excruciating.
I hate to be that guy, but I think the opening war scene was WWI, because of the costumes, and because they show that clip later in the opening narration of soldiers sitting around a tank with women who look like the Andrews' Sisters, marking the passage of time from the teens to the 40s.
Has there been a Snob/Todd in the Shadows crossover?
💥In retrospect, there's really nothing wrong with the silly script as it really IS a silly film.
The problem is not the movie itself but how it was hyped up and so grandeurly introduced to the media & public.
Just before production began, It was heralded as the "Gone With The Wind" of the 70's!😳 Holy Crapo! Even now in 2021, nothing comes close to that 1940s Epic!
So everyone was anticipating a more serious musical extravaganza and not kid-humor cartoonish cliché stuff.
Second, the pressure was on Frampton's & The BEE GEES's Beatles' performances.
Of course, they will never satisfy Beatles fans despite George Martin's first hand arrangements & production, especially the Gibbs still fresh from the SNF soundtrack phenomena. To Fab Four fans, it was sacrilegious to even emulate such a legendary album & catalogue, to the outside audience, it was mixed reviews.
But because the audience felt cheated & ridiculed by expecting what the movie was hyped for, only to be on the caliber of downright silly everything like the Airplane or Hot Shots franchise where you're not suppose to mind the story and just enjoy the soundtrack & some visuals & gags, and that's it!
Word of mouth was fierce as a pre-ordered 3 million initial ordered shipping of the double album vinyl became bargain bin fillers after 3 wks of theater release. Also, although the soundtrack faired quite well with Robin's jazzy R&B version of Oh, Darling! went to Top 15, it was a downward spiral after that since the public has heard enough of the negativity and just wanted out.
I must admit that Frampton's The Long and Winding Road can stand side by side with Paul's with Peter's solo lead, but Barry's A Day In A Life was just too loose of an arrangement (even more loose than the original) and that sound together with the other renditions without tight arrangements just won't hold in the late 70's. That's exactly the reason why Aerosmith's Come Together & EW&F Got to Get...were the only (2) saving grace tracks in the album. You can play them now and they will still sound fresh and undated.
Frampton was actually on the way out when the movie came out and his last hit I'm In You was already stale in the public's ears, which i honestly felt became a hit due to the spill of his ...Comes Alive monster album.
If Frampton came out with at least a Top 10 song from his next studio album after Pepper (Where I Belong), it may have kept him afloat for a little while more, but the album didn't even enter the Top 100.
The BEE GEES actually came out unscathed as a 'paradox' happened.
While both critics & the public were vomiting on the thought of the Pepper movie, millions all over the world were simultaneously embracing the their new studio album 'Spirits [Having Flown]'.
It spawned (3) No.1 hits in the US to connect with their previous (3) No. 1s from the SNF soundtrack. So, they were enjoying the best of times while in the midst of that is the worst of movies, not so much of the movie itself, but the way it was misleadingly introduced to the public --- ■
Frampton's 1979 album was titled 'Where I Should Be.' He was clearly making a statement with that title about how he should be seen as an artist, not as a teen idol or a Beatle wannabe.
Can you reupload Can't Stop The Music please?
Hey, that's George Burns narrating. I know his voice any where.
Man I didn’t get to see all The Hiliary’s America review but this is a nice consolation.
3:20 That was World War I being ended. Not 2.
To be fair, they ended BOTH World Wars this way.
This is the strangest Dinesh D'Souza documentary ever made.
7:36-The CEO of The Philips Corporation is listening in! He’s gonna use your song out of context! But there’s something even worse-24 years later Universal Studios, who made this bomb, is going to use this same song in another bomb-THE CAT IN THE HAT!!
Covered by the most overrated appealing-to-tweens band of the late '90s/early 2000s Smash Mouth.
Tad Sharp Confidentially, I LOVE The Cat In The Hat! And that song was one of the best parts of the movie! I also LOVE the movie Sgt Pepper’s Lonely Hearts Club Band! I don’t know why-maybe it’s that great soundtrack with Peter Frampton and The Bee Gees! Maybe it’s how corny and strange the movie is! But I LOVE it!
Steve Martin covering Maxwell’s Silver Hammer is the greatest thing ever!
This was Casablanca compared to Give My Regards to Broad Street, and that had 2 Beatles, a Bond Girl and Tracey Ullman. When I saw who the director was, I did a double take and did a "wait - WHAT"? The director of Cooley High, Car Wash, Which Way Is Up..made Sgt Pepper??
I remember my first time watching this movie and thought it was the original Across The Universe
This Movie makes Yellow Submarine look subtle.
That movie ruled