This is what it would look like if a Beatles record could fellate itself. Honestly, I didn't get it at all. As a music video montage, it's not bad, but as a movie, it sucks.Jude (Jim Sturgess) is a young Liverpudlian dockworker who goes to America to find his father, a maintenance worker at Princeton. There he meets Max (Joe Anderson), a student more interested in playing golf than getting a degree. Max takes Jude home for Thanksgiving and announces he's dropping out of college and moving to Greenwich Village. Jude goes with him and they move into an apartment with a singer named Sadie (Dana Fuchs) and her band. Meanwhile, Max's sister Lucy (Evan Rachel Wood) gets word that her boyfriend (Spencer Liff) has been killed in Vietnam. She moves to NY to live with her brother and starts dating Jude. Max gets drafted and Lucy becomes very involved with the protest movement, so much so that Jude feels abandoned. He is arrested and deported after trying to get her out of one of the protests. After moping for a time, Jude comes back and joins Sadie's band on top of Apple Records for a concert, hoping to see Lucy.
Visually, it's a very pretty movie and there are some notable cameos from Bono, Eddie Izzard, and Salma Hayek. It's not precisely acted but it is beautifully choreographed and all the songs were done by the actors involved, so there's that. I just didn't like it. I found nothing particularly appealing in the story or setting. I wasn't alive during the time period and I've never done drugs so I can't relate to any of the trippiness. Rob and Christy both liked it so obviously it's likable. Just not to me.
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