The Beatles agree to accompany Captain Fred in his yellow submarine and go to Pepperland to free it from the music-hating Blue Meanies.The Beatles agree to accompany Captain Fred in his yellow submarine and go to Pepperland to free it from the music-hating Blue Meanies.The Beatles agree to accompany Captain Fred in his yellow submarine and go to Pepperland to free it from the music-hating Blue Meanies.
- Awards
- 2 wins & 2 nominations
Paul McCartney
- Paul
- (uncredited)
George Harrison
- George
- (uncredited)
Ringo Starr
- Ringo
- (uncredited)
John Lennon
- John
- (uncredited)
The Beatles
- The Beatles
- (singing voice)
- (as Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band)
Paul Angelis
- Ringo Starr
- (voice)
- …
John Clive
- John Lennon
- (voice)
Geoffrey Hughes
- Paul McCartney
- (voice)
- (as Geoff Hughes)
Lance Percival
- Old Fred
- (voice)
Peter Batten
- George
- (voice)
- (uncredited)
Storyline
Did you know
- TriviaThe Beatles hated "The Beatles (1965)," the television cartoon show of them, which was also produced by Al Brodax and George Dunning. When the producers approached them about this movie, the group agreed only as an easy way of completing their movie contract. They contributed a few old songs and four quickly produced numbers: "Only a Northern Song", "Hey Bulldog", "All Together Now", and "It's All Too Much". They were so impressed by the finished movie that they decided to appear in a short live-action epilogue to the movie.
- GoofsThe Beatles spot five Apple Bonkers taking apples off a tree. Only four Bonkers march and sound off before a Meanie Squad Leader.
- Crazy creditsThe lyric "All Together Now" is shown in several different languages while the song plays at the end.
- Alternate versionsThe American version had several alternative shots during the "All You Need Is Love" song, among others: the population of Pepperland moves in at the Blue Meanies; Paul McCartney doing a somersault, a brief scene of Old Fred and the Mayor dancing together happily. The UK version featured alternate footage, like George floating down from Sgt Pepper's head, saying "It's all in the mind, you know".
- ConnectionsEdited from Dancing Lady (1933)
- SoundtracksYellow Submarine
Written by John Lennon and Paul McCartney
Performed by The Beatles
Published by Apple Records
Courtesy of Apple Records
Featured review
Still Innovative, Unbelievably Colorful
Over 35 years later, this is still an innovative animated film: colorful, clever and different. In fact, you'd have to look hard to find a more colorful film ever made.
The Beatles characters are fun, spouting a number of good puns and inside jokes concerning lyrics from some of their past songs. The bad guys here, the "Blue Meanies," are also fun to watch and really different from anything you've seen.
This is wild stuff which can appeal to adults even more than kids. The only improvement I would have made would have been to shorten it a bit. Even at a fairly short 90 minutes, some could have been trimmed.
The DVD is fine, except for the last 30 minutes when it gets grainy. However, the 5.1 surround sound more than makes up for that, affording the viewer to hear all these famous Beatles songs in a better format that surrounds you as a CD could never do.
The Beatles characters are fun, spouting a number of good puns and inside jokes concerning lyrics from some of their past songs. The bad guys here, the "Blue Meanies," are also fun to watch and really different from anything you've seen.
This is wild stuff which can appeal to adults even more than kids. The only improvement I would have made would have been to shorten it a bit. Even at a fairly short 90 minutes, some could have been trimmed.
The DVD is fine, except for the last 30 minutes when it gets grainy. However, the 5.1 surround sound more than makes up for that, affording the viewer to hear all these famous Beatles songs in a better format that surrounds you as a CD could never do.
- ccthemovieman-1
- Nov 14, 2005
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- Also known as
- The Beatles' Yellow Submarine
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Box office
- Budget
- £250,000 (estimated)
- Gross US & Canada
- $992,305
- Opening weekend US & Canada
- $107,105
- Jul 8, 2018
- Gross worldwide
- $1,273,261
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