Instant Favorite.

Excellent, a Must See

everything you have heard about this movie is true.

This is a small, humorous movie in some ways, but it has a huge heart. What a nice experience.

All we got was sh*t!I had heard for years this was really bad, but I'd never seen it. And after a recent great UNCUT magazine cover story on this period of The Fabs, I just had to finally check it out.Oh, I'd seen the movie still photos, including Paul in military garb, the fat lady with the spaghetti, and the boys prancing in their white suits inside the record album my brother bought about 50 YEARS AGO. And of course I'd seen the decent "I Am the Walrus" video which was included here, but I'd never seen the whole film of MAGICAL MYSTERY TOUR. But thanks to the wonderment of library DVD loaners, I dove in last weekend expecting the worse. And that's just what I got.I'd read some of the IMDb reviews here of the newer released Blu-Ray disc which includes some (allegedly) OK scenes not in the original film. But certainly not enough to save this "thing" (it's not a movie, but rather a series of inane clips featuring their great music).So I'll file this one in the "one & done" category, and everyone else should just avoid it altogether and spend an hour doing something more productive. Hell, just throw on the album and clean the house. You'll be better off.

Very silly movie. Basically one huge music video for the Beatles' Magical Mystery Tour album. Music is great, of course, but the video and segues are self- indulgent, meaningless crap. The acting, especially by the Beatles members, is atrocious.If it wasn't for the music and the fact that this is the Beatles, this would be a 1/10 movie.About the only upside is that now I know where the band Death Cab for Cutie got its name from...Not worth watching, not even for its link to the seminal album.

Wasn't sure what to make of it at first. I was rather expecting a movie with a solid plot based on my viewing of "Help." What I got was a psychedelic, surreal hour of what, if you just sat back and relaxed, was a quite nice 'what the hell, let's just get drunk/high and have some f***ing fun!" movie. A bus full of people enjoying themselves immensely, going on silly excursions though the countryside, ranging from relay races to Nascar-like road chases to an evening band (Spoiler/warning: evening band contains stripper, not for kid viewing), and wrapping up with a formal "Your Mother Should Know." Once you peel back and stop letting yourself get confused with the bizarreness of the movie, you find yourself smiling and feel like you're having a good time along with the characters. The movie does include various Beatles songs ("Fool on the Hill," "I Am the Walrus", among others). So don't feel like you've been let down, just open your mind, prepare for silliness and fun, and this movie can be a good experience.

Look, I'll admit it. I hate Paul MaCartney, and even the Beatles stuff he did is now unlistenable to me because I hear his now florid narcissism in the whole of the Beatles catalogue in which he was involved. This is the man who wrote 'When I'm Sixty-Four' when he was fifteen. Rock'n'Roll! And Magical Mystery Tour is Paul's baby.While it's the nearest we'll get to seeing the late 60's Beatles performing live, and there are occasional glimpses of the sheer likability of John, George and Ringo which they all managed to share in 'Help' and 'Hard Day's Night', it's quite evident from MMT that Paul's self-regard was now becoming out of control.So if you're a MaCartney fan, you'll love MMT as much Paul loves himself: if you're a Beatles fan, it'll give you the frisson of seeing how the Fab Four fitted so well into the British media scene of the 60's, and how their money made possible a lot of artistic self-indulgence. If you've never really been that convinced that the Beatles were as good as EMI or MPL Communications' press offices might have you believe, you'll see MMT for what it was: a big budget being thrown at a few small ideas.