Title: Plasticine movie
Review: Here's the short version: Take every stereotype of the Sixties and every stereotypical photographic/videographic image of the Sixties, then throw them into a blender with the Beatles catalog. What comes out? This tasteless mush of a movie.The longer version of a critique involves the fact that the creators of this so-called movie want to tug at our heart-strings with familiar images that are supposed to elicit sentimental feelings out of historical parts of our lives. Images of 'Nam are supposed to make us remember how horrible the war was. Images reminiscent of Kent State try to evoke the horrors of that tragedy. Referencing common themes of the Sixties does not make this a good movie about the Sixties. "Across the Universe" lacks any coherent narrative voice that makes us care about the characters in the story.And, as a side-tangent, Bono's cameo was comical in that he came across as a Robin Williams caricature of Bono.
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