Tuesday, December 22, 2009

"Give My Regards to Broad Street" (feature) by Paul McCartney – *

First released: 1984

Dreadful, absolutely awful feature film that was a vanity piece for McCartney that makes "Magical Mystery Tour" look good. Unlike that film, McCartney chose to recreate Beatles, Wings and solo songs plus a couple of new ones, in a series of boring videos. The plot as such concerns some ex-con on McCartney’s staff that supposedly stole the tapes of his latest album, and so McCartney proceeds to re-record some of them which doesn’t make much sense as he begins to re-record old Beatles tunes. Ringo is along for the ride, but doesn’t contribute much here in regards to acting or playing.

The highlight (if there is one) is the "Eleanor’s Dream" sequence.

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