Magical Mystery Tour

1967

Action / Comedy / Fantasy / Musical

15
Rotten Tomatoes Critics - Rotten 57% · 14 reviews
Rotten Tomatoes Audience - Spilled 57% · 5K ratings
IMDb Rating 6.1/10 10 8365 8.4K

the beatles magical mystery tour musical surrealism rock music cult film

Plot summary

While on a coach tour, The Beatles and a few dozen friends experience strange happenings caused by magicians.

Director

George Harrison Photo
George Harrison

Top cast

John Lennon Photo
John Lennon as John / Ticket Salesman / Magician with Coffee / The Eggman / Aunt Jessie's Waiter Pirandello / Narrator
George Claydon Photo
George Claydon as Photographer
Neil Innes Photo
Neil Innes as Performer on Stage
Mal Evans Photo
Mal Evans as Magician Standing in the Corner / Passenger on the Bus
720p.BluRay 1080p.BluRay
493.36 MB
956*720
English 2.0
NR
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29.97 fps
12 hr 53 min
Seeds 2
1012.22 MB
1424*1072
English 5.1
NR
Subtitles us  
29.97 fps
12 hr 53 min
Seeds 28

Movie Reviews

Reviewed by 1930s_Time_Machine 6 / 10

It's really not terrible

Most people's recollections of this is that it's nonsensical self-indulgent and beyond amateurish.Your memory is not lying to you but that doesn't mean that this is rubbish. If you're a die-hard Beatles fan and managed not just to sit through all eight hours of the Get Back sessions film but actually enjoyed it, you will love this.It's not really a film, so don't expect anything like 'Help,' the slick, highly polished and properly made comedy. Magical Mystery Tour has none of these attributes. It is essentially an album filled in with what seems like whatever ideas were in the minds of John, George, Ringo and particularly Paul at the time. None of these extended pieces are funny, imaginative or indeed entertaining but for Beatles fans, inexplicably interesting.It's also a rare opportunity to see on screen the wonderfully eccentric Scottish surrealist comedy-poet, Ivor Cutler.
Reviewed by Seamus2829 5 / 10

Magical Mystery Tour

I was but a mere babe in arms when this film originally played on BBC Television in 1967 (and was trashed by both critics & audiences), so I didn't actually see it until years later, when I attended a Beatles convention, where it was screened with a batch of other Beatle related films. All I can say is...YOWZA! I guess I can see why our British cousins detested it. It was originally slated for a cinematic release, but was brought up by BBC for screening as a Xmas holiday feature (it was actually screened on the 26th of December,1967...and in black & white,no less). It fared so badly that NBC, who had American TV rights for screening it,backed out (no big surprise). It did turn up some years later in the early to mid 1970's, on the midnight movie circuit, playing to mostly stoned out potheads. I guess looking at it some years later, I would say that it is a period piece (check out the costumes that they wore back then). Maybe if I saw it, tripping balls, I would probably appreciate it all the more. Seeing it stone cold sober, it's a pretty lame attempt at a Beatles movie (although I admit, I do like some of the music in it).
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