
Without fully comprehending the psychedelic overtones, I was taken with the utter fanciful nature of it all. Up to this point, the movie was the most whimsically inventive exploration in animation I had ever seen. Because their music had always resonated with me from an early age. More so, I distinctly remember presenting about their music and how these lads from Liverpool were able to captivate the world. Consequently, my 6th-grade school report on the Beatles was entirely lacking this information too. I had no idea what LSD or an acid trip was, much less acid.
#YELLOW SUBMARINE CARTOON GLOVE LOVE MOVIE#
To return now, functions as an all-expense paid nostalgia trip because Yellow Submarine as an animated movie is something I knew from a VHS that my dad brought home one day from work. Beatlemania, as a zeitgeist of screeching girls, might have cooled but their music and personas still made them rock royalty of the late 60s.

It’s our first sense that this is a picture about the Fab Four.

But as this is a Beatles adventure, the intrepid Young Fred (with graying hair) escapes on the Yellow Submarine as the refrains of Ringo’s iconic tune overtake the screen. One can only guess what they would have thought of the likes of B.B. Soon the melodious world is overrun by their chaotic cacophony of blueness. They come from the outskirts of Pepperland with an arsenal of dastardly weapons at their disposal, among them Projectile Gloves, Three-Headed Hounds, and Anti-Music Fishbowls. Like all the great fantasy stories, this one begins with “Once upon a time…” The world is Pepperland, 80,000 leagues under the sea, where people live in harmony frolicking across the hills with music wafting through the air.īut there must be villains and there are no cartoonish baddies more nefarious and reviled than the Blue Meanies.
