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(1 - 34) of 34 OFCS Rating: 50% Rotten Page   1   2.5/5 "You have to work so hard at forgetting everything you know about the boys from Liverpool, even as the movie constantly throws their monumental achievements directly at you, that it's frequently not worth the effort"   PopMatters   Bill Gibron B+ "Across the Universe is an oddity that crosses over to exhilaration and crooked beauty often, keeping the audience on their toes with this mash note to communicative spirits and rousing free-range creativity."   eFilmCritic.com   Brian Orndorf "The romance will be painful and tumultuous, and the film will find a way to tie together all external events to this seemingly personal connection."   PopMatters   Cynthia Fuchs C "Misses by the size of the Atlantic Ocean in getting to what the Beatles were about."   Ozus' World Movie Reviews   Dennis Schwartz 2/4 "An ambitious failure, but a failure nonetheless. For a film celebrating life and love, Across the Universe ironically and unforgivably leaves the viewer feeling cold."   TheMovieBoy.com   Dustin Putman B- "A resplendent feast for the eyes. Just don't expect anything resembling a coherent storyline."   FilmJerk.com   Edward Havens A- "An innovative, marvelously constructed musical full of heart, humor, and feelings."   EricDSnider.com   Eric D. Snider 0.5/4 "You could make the same movie using the music of Huey Lewis. And most likely a less embarrassing one."   eFilmCritic.com   Erik Childress 4/4 "For my money, give me the original songs and a beer any day, but for a cute treat with a linear story and engaging characters, I suggest "Across the Universe"..."   Cinema Crazed   Felix Vasquez Jr. 2/4 "Somehow, the Beatles' precious diamonds are glaringly missing from Lucy's sky if not in Julie's unevenly charismatic but cluttered and customary Universe."   World Voice News   Frank Ochieng C- "The Beatles survived Peter Frampton and the Bee Gees, so they'll survive Julie Taymor, too."   One Guy's Opinion   Frank Swietek 4/5 "A phantasmagoric trip through the 1960s with the melodic music of the Beatles and a strident salute to love, liberation, and creative expression that will take your breath away if you just go with the flow."   Spirituality and Practice   Frederic and Mary Ann Brussat C- "The thin narrative wobbles like an alcoholic after last call."   Modern Fabulousity   Gabriel Shanks 2/4 "One could never argue that Across the Universe isn't ambitious. However, like many ambitious movies, this one fails spectacularly."   ReelViews   James Berardinelli 2/4 "an ambitious mess of a movie that stretches a thin premise across a bold canvas, resulting in moments of near ecstasy mixed with a nagging lack of emotional involvement"   Q Network Film Desk   James Kendrick "A movie made by Beatles obsessives, for Beatles obsessives . . ."   SA Movie & DVD Magazine   James O'Ehley 3/4 "Julie Taymor's wildly ambitious ode to the Fab Four is a flawed but occasionally fabulous change of pace."   Palo Alto Weekly   Jeanne Aufmuth 7/10 "I'll go ahead and say it: I'm embarrassed by how much I liked this movie."   Window to the Movies   Jeffrey Chen "...the long and winding road that is Julie Taymor's opulent, eye-filling, and disappointingly uninvolving musical extravaganza..."   Film.com   Jonathan F. Richards 4/5 "Two thirds amazing, one third off-putting and boring psychedelia, but the amazing stuff generally wins out."   Cinerina   Karina Montgomery 2.5/4 "[Director Taymor's] reach exceeds her grasp for a good half of its two-hour plus running time. But the other half is breathtaking, simultaneously visually inventive and vividly attuned to the broad streak of melancholy that runs through the 1960s."   TV Guide's Movie Guide   Maitland McDonagh 1/4 "A monumental miscalculation of a musical."   Mark Reviews Movies   Mark Dujsik C "It is overlong and under-plotted, visually vibrant but thematically pale. The characters are more alive in the original Beatles songs than they are on the screen."   Movie Mom at Yahoo! Movies   Nell Minow 3/5 "Uma obra frustrante, mas suficientemente curiosa para merecer uma pouco efusiva recomendação."   Cinema em Cena   Pablo Villaca 1/5 "The film is too gauche to work as a real musical and too flat to work as camp."   eFilmCritic.com   Peter Sobczynski 4.5/5 "This ambitious musical balances its visual outrageousness with a moving story. It's a little exhausting, but also wonderful."   Shadows on the Wall   Rich Cline 5/5 "This lavish labor of love constantly walks a slender thread between masterpiece and folly, but when all is said and done, it confirms, for me, Taymor's status as a master."   eFilmCritic.com   Rob Gonsalves D "Across the Universe actually renders the greatest rock and roll music ever written as desperate and irritating as Britney Spears' flop sweat."   Flipside Movie Emporium   Rob Vaux B "While the story is not entirely coherent, the great Beatles music and numerous effective cast musical performances makes up for the film's narrative weakness."   Laramie Movie Scope   Robert Roten A- "The DVD two-disk set gives us the remarkable movie plus lots of extras"   Reeling Reviews   Robin Clifford 1.5/4 "A low-rent, off-Broadway spectacle that's desperately in need of a stage"   Charlotte Weekly   Sean O'Connell 7/10 "Phantasmagorical! It's a unique - if incoherent - counterculture voyage to nowhere. All you need is love, man."   www.susangranger.com   Susan Granger 9/10 "Designed to encourage appreciation of the director's visual flair and the sheer joy of the music. And such visual flair it is; and such joyful music."   Antagony & Ecstasy   Tim Brayton 2.5/4 "It's overlong, exhaustingly so, and barely held together by the flimsiest of narratives."   Reel.com   Timothy Knight  (1 - 34) of 34 OFCS Rating: 50% Rotten Page   1