I'm late to the party on this one. I'm very familiar with its influence so it didn't knock my socks off but you can still tell it's a fine film. Superb music of course but the Beatles are great talent and they were smart/lucky enough to get just the right director in Richard Lester and the right writer in Alun Owen. It's very different from a typical pop group film of the time - they tended to be more conventional - but the risk paid off brilliantly.
It's anarchic, fast, and free spirited. A lot of the jokes die, there is plenty of padding (scenes of them dancing, for instance). The support cast are good, the music is divine.
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