Across the Universe directed by Julie Taymor and starring Evan Rachel Wood and Jim Stugess is a musical that uses the songs by The Beatles to convey the story. Read Plot Summary below:

Adock worker Jude (Jim Sturgess) travels to America in the 1960s to find his estranged father. There he falls in love with sheltered American teenager Lucy (Evan Rachel Wood). When her brother Max (Joe Anderson) is drafted to fight in the Vietnam War, they become involved in peace activism. The film title and main characters are named after various songs by The Beatles. Written by MIB6116

Musical based on The Beatles songbook and set in the 60s England, America, and Vietnam. The love story of Lucy and Jude is intertwined with the anti-war movement and social protests of the 60s. Over 30 Beatles' songs are woven into the plot together with visual allusions to films Help! (1965), A Hard Day's Night (1964), Yellow Submarine (1968) and Let It Be (1970). Written by Steve Shelokhonov

An original musical film, Across The Universe is a fictional love story set in the 1960s amid the turbulent years of anti-war protest, the struggle for free speech and civil rights, mind exploration and rock and roll. At once gritty, whimsical and highly theatrical, the story moves from high schools and universities in Massachusetts, Princeton and Ohio to the Lower East Side of Manhattan, the Detroit riots, Vietnam and the dockyards of Liverpool. A combination of live action and animation, the film is paired with many songs by The Beatles that defined the time.

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Now if you are a huge fan of musicals and love The Beatles, then you will adore this film. However, the film dragged and got boring at times, and the Drug Psychedelic scenes were hard to deal with and really had no point. The movie just did not entertain of move me in any way. It tried to have some political movement, and maybe if your an aging hipster who wants to try and relive the sixties through this film you may enjoy it. However if your like me and hated "Easy Rider", you then will not like this film either.

I give this 1/2 of 4 stars.