IGN.com|AskMen.com|Rotten Tomatoes|GameSpy|FilePlanet|TeamXbox|CheatsCodesGuides|GameStats|Direct2Drive|Green Pixels
RottenTomatoes.com
Log In | Register | What is RT?
  • Home
  • Movies
  • DVD
  • Celebrities
  • News
  • Critics
  • Trailers & Pictures
  • The Vine
  • Forums
  • Box Office
  • | Best Of
  • | Certified Fresh
RT Search Powered by Google
help icon Enhanced RT
searches on Google
Click here to turn on enhanced search results from RT on your Google searches by subscribing to our Google Subscribed Links profile.
 
Movies / On DVD / Yellow Submarine
Yellow Submarine

Rate this Movie Help Icon

  • Write a Review
  • Read Reviews
  • Email to a Friend
  • Add to List
  • Bookmark and Share
  • Buy Poster External Icon

Yellow Submarine (1968)

  • T-Meter Critics
  • Top Critics
  • RT Community
  • My Critics
  • My Friends
  • DVD
94 %
Tomatometer

How does the Tomatometer work Help Icon

Reviews Counted: 35

Fresh: 33

Rotten:2

Average Rating: 7.6/10

Consensus: A joyful, phantasmagoric blend of colorful animation and the music of the Beatles, Yellow Submarine is delightful (and occasionally melancholy) family fare.

Runtime: 1 hr 31 mins

Genre: Childrens

Synopsis: In this animated feature with the Fab Four, the magical Pepperland is invaded by the Blue Meanies, who have declared war on all that is good--especially music. At the request of a befuddled emissary from Pepperland, the lads from Liverpool... In this animated feature with the Fab Four, the magical Pepperland is invaded by the Blue Meanies, who have declared war on all that is good--especially music. At the request of a befuddled emissary from Pepperland, the lads from Liverpool take a ride in their yellow submarine to aid the besieged residents in their battle. Peter Max designed the distinctive look of the animation, and the real-live Beatles themselves appear in a brief sequence at the film's end. Includes the songs "Yellow Submarine," "Just A Northern Song," "Sergeant Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band," "Eleanor Rigby," "Lucy in the Sky with Diamonds," "Nowhere Man," "A Day in the Life," and others, as well as several orchestral numbers by noted Beatle producer George Martin. [More]

Starring: Beatles

Starring: Beatles

Director: George Dunning

Director: George Dunning
Producer: Al Brodax
Screenwriter: Al Brodax, Lee Minoff, Erich Segal, Jack Mendelsohn

[See More Credits]

DVD Info

 
 
 
 
Release:

Sep 14, 1999

[DVD Details]
 
 

DVD Features:

  • Region 1
  • Keep Case
  • Letterboxed - 1.85:1

Audio:

  • Dolby Digital 5.1 Surround
  • Dolby Digital Mono

Additional Release Material:

  • Behind The Scenes Featurette - THE MOD ODYSSEY
  • Trailer - Theatrical
  • Audio Commentary
  • Isolated Music Score
  • Interviews - Crew
  • - Vocal Talents
  • Collectible Booklet
  • Additional Animated Song - "Hey Bulldog"

Text/Photo Galleries:

  • Storyboards (Including 2 Not Used in the Film)
  • Original Pencil Drawings
  • Behind-the-Scenes Photos

Reviews for Yellow Submarine

  • T-Meter Critics
  • Top Critics
  • RT Community
  • My Critics
  • My Friends
  • DVD
 
 
1 - 20 (sorted by date; Australian critics are listed first)
Text View | 1 2 >> >|
Arrange By: Fresh | Rotten | Comments | Name | Source | Date
 
 
Ratings Image

A certified classic.

Full Review Source: Urban Cinefile | comment Comment
01/01/00
Urban Cinefile Critics
Urban Cinefile
Top Critic Icon Top Critic
Ratings Image

If the result seems less a coherent story than a two-hour pot high, Submarine is still a breakthrough combination of the feature film and art's intimacy with the unconscious.

Full Review Source: TIME Magazine | comment Comment
09/04/08
TIME Magazine
Ratings Image

A garish, gorgeous example of pop art at its finest.

Full Review Source: Empire Magazine | comment Comment
09/02/08
Caroline Westbrook
Empire Magazine
Top Critic Icon Top Critic
Ratings Image

There's a quiet note of melancholy in much of this material, which is much more persuasive and concrete than the larky, intoxicating pleasure usually claimed for the film.

Full Review Source: Channel 4 Film | comment Comment
09/02/08
Channel 4 Film
Ratings Image

A zesty, satisfying celebration of animation, fantasy, love, and the Beatles that pleases the eyes as much as the ears.

Full Review Source: TV Guide's Movie Guide | comment Comment
09/06/07
TV Guide's Movie Guide
Ratings Image

Here are all the ingredients of a novel entertainment.

Full Review Source: Variety | comment Comment
09/06/07
Variety Staff
Variety
Top Critic Icon Top Critic
Ratings Image

This 1968 Beatles musical gets somewhat plot heavy near the end, but it's a marvel of innocence and free association, blending several animation techniques in a loose narrative full of gentle bad puns and flowing visual segues.

Full Review Source: Chicago Reader | comment Comment
09/06/07
Lisa Alspector
Chicago Reader
Ratings Image

The animation is imaginatively conceived, but stiffly executed.

Full Review Source: Chicago Reader | comment Comment
09/06/07
Dave Kehr
Chicago Reader
Ratings Image

There's such a wide disparity of graphic styles from sequence to sequence. Some of them, though, still look terrific.

Full Review Source: Time Out | comment Comment
06/24/06
Time Out
Ratings Image

No review available.

comment Comment
01/09/06
S. James Wegg
JWR
Ratings Image

Not a splendid time for all.

comment Comment
09/09/05
John Wirt
Advocate (Baton Rouge, LA)
Ratings Image

A movie so joyous (and mildly demented) as to rewrite the rules of what a movie can be.

comment Comment
09/06/05
Gregory Weinkauf
ÜberCiné
Ratings Image

No review available.

comment Comment
06/29/05
Emanuel Levy
EmanuelLevy.Com
Ratings Image

Inventive animated feature. Yeah, yeah, yeah.

comment Comment
10/24/03
Gerry Shamray
Sun Newspapers of Cleveland
Ratings Image

No review available.

comment Comment
06/20/03
Michael Szymanski
Zap2it.com
Ratings Image

Yellow Submarine is a family movie in the truest sense.

Full Review Source: New York Times | comment Comment
05/20/03
Renata Adler
New York Times
Top Critic Icon Top Critic
Ratings Image

No review available.

comment Comment
05/08/03
Brandon Judell
PopcornQ
Ratings Image

Visually inventive.

Full Review Source: Austin Chronicle | comment Comment
03/10/03
Marjorie Baumgarten
Austin Chronicle
Ratings Image

No review available.

comment Comment
03/07/03
Mike McGranaghan
Aisle Seat
Ratings Image

No review available.

comment Comment
02/14/03
Robert Roten
Laramie Movie Scope
1 - 20 (sorted by date; Australian critics are listed first)
Text View | 1 2 >> >|
all

Latest News for Yellow Submarine

September 12, 2007: Total Recall: Across the Universe And The Beatles On Film
This week, Across the Universe hits theaters. Julie Taymor's film, starring Evan Rachel Wood and Jim Sturgess as a young couple in the midst of the heady, chaotic 1960s,... More...

March 19, 2007: Rolling Stones Get Animated With "Ruby Tuesday"
Back in the psychedelic '60s, The Beatles got animated for the film "Yellow Submarine." Four decades later, it's the competition's turn. The Rolling Stones have... More...

See More Topics...

Related Forums for Yellow Submarine

brindlescruff
I watched this again after getting a root canal
by: brindlescruff 2/20/05


brindlescruff
I watched this again after getting a root canal
by: brindlescruff 2/20/05


brindlescruff
I watched this again after getting a root canal
by: brindlescruff 2/20/05


brindlescruff
I watched this again after getting a root canal
by: brindlescruff 2/20/05


brindlescruff
I watched this again after getting a root canal
by: brindlescruff 2/20/05
See All

More DVDs

Top Rentals
Tomatometer Percentage Movie
FRESH: 1 88% Hellboy II: The Golden…
FRESH: 2 89% Kung Fu Panda
ROTTEN: 3 53% Get Smart
FRESH: 4 61% Journey to the Center …
FRESH: 5 67% The Incredible Hulk

More Rentals…

New On DVD This Week
Tomatometer Percentage Movie
FRESH: 96 96% WALL-E
FRESH: 83 83% Tropic Thunder
FRESH: 63 63% Sisterhood of the Trav…
FRESH: 93 93% Encounters At the End …
FRESH: 88 88% Gonzo: The Life and Wo…

More New Releases…

What’s Hot On RT

Quantum of Solace

Quantum of Solace

Watch the latest Bond clips and trailers.

Dance Flick Trailer

Dance Flick Trailer

The latest spoof from the Wayans bros.

Guillermo del Toro

Guillermo del Toro

Five favourite films with the Hellboy director...

NEW Watchmen Pics

NEW Watchmen Pics

You watch the Watchmen

Other News

  • Top Stories
  • Popular
  • Interviews
 
 

Comments

 
 
Top Stories
Headlines Comments
  
  • Weekly Ketchup: Writers for Captain America and X-Men: First Class
28
  • Spielberg's Oldboy Isn't a Remake Source: Film School Rejects
33
  • Fox Hires Josh Schwartz for New X-Men Movie Source: Variety
40
  • Neveldine and Taylor Exit Jonah Hex Source: Variety
2
  • First Look at Terminator Salvation Source: IGN Movies
17
  • Trailer Bulletin: Exclusive Star Trek TV Trailer!
51
  • Weekly Ketchup: Jaden Smith to be The Karate Kid
58
  • Ratner Puts Brakes on Conan Reports Source: Los Angeles Times
8
  • Del Toro Plans Stop-Motion Pinocchio Project Source: Bloody Disgusting
3
  • RT Sees Star Trek Footage!
36
Popular
Headlines Comments
  
  • Five Favorite Films with Twilight's Robert Pattinson
59
  • Trailer Bulletin: Exclusive Star Trek TV Trailer!
51
  • Twilight Headed for $30 Million Opening Day
49
  • Total Recall: James Bond Countdown -- Find Out Where Quantum of Solace Fits In!
44
  • RT on DVD: WALL-E And An Exclusive Tropic Thunder Deleted Scene!
40
  • Box Office Guru Wrapup: Bond Tops Toons With $70M
39
  • Critics Consensus: Twilight Fades, Bolt Electrifies
37
  • Total Recall: Sexy Vampires
34
  • Five Favorite Films with John Lasseter
25
  • Weekly Ketchup: Writers for Captain America and X-Men: First Class
14
Interviews
Headlines Comments
  
  • Ricky Gervais - RT's Dinner and the Movies Interview - Chapter 5
1
  • Ricky Gervais - RT's Dinner and the Movies Interview - Chapter 4
3
  • Ricky Gervais - RT's Dinner and the Movies Interview - Chapter 3
1
  • Ricky Gervais - RT's Dinner and the Movies Interview - Chapter 2
1
  • Ricky Gervais - RT's Dinner and the Movies Interview - Chapter 1
3
  • Video Exclusive: Josh Brolin and Elizabeth Banks on W.
4
  • RT Interview: Charlie Kaufman on Synecdoche, New York
39
  • Exclusive: Alexandre Aja talks Mirrors and Piranha 3D
9
  • RT Interview: Jason Statham Chats Death Race, Crank 2 and The Sweeney
9
  • RT AU Interview: Andrew Stanton and Ben Burtt talk WALL-E
6
 
 

Around The Network

  • Yellow Submarine at Rotten Tomatoes
 
 
About| Site Map| Help| RT To Go| Contact Us| Critics Submission| Linking to RT| Licensing| Movie List| Celebs List| Newsletter
IGN Logo

IGN.com | GameSpy | Comrade | Arena | FilePlanet | ModCenter | GameSpy Technology
TeamXbox | Planets | Vaults | VE3D | CheatsCodesGuides | GameStats | GamerMetrics
AskMen.com | Rotten Tomatoes | Direct2Drive | Green Pixels


By continuing past this page, and by the continued use of this site, you agree to be bound by and abide by the User Agreement.
Copyright 1998-2008, IGN Entertainment, Inc. About IGN | Support | Advertise | Privacy Policy | User Agreement | Subscribe to RT's XML feed! IGN RSS Feeds
IGN's enterprise databases running Oracle, SQL and MySQL are professionally monitored and managed by Pythian Remote DBA
Certain product data ©1995-present Muze, Inc. For personal use only. All rights reserved.