Director: George Dunning
Released: 1968
Length: 85 minutes
Medium: Colour

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

It tells the glorious tale of a make believe world inhabited by Blue Meanies, a wicked little bunch who suck the colour out of people and bop them on the heads with apples. The Beatles and Old Fred (Lance Percival) are called in to stop the Blue Meanies' rage. The singing heroes hop in their yellow submarine and sail the seas of green, of science, of time, of monsters and best of all, of holes until they finally reach Pepperland and straighten out the villains by overpowering them with love, love, love.

The animation is superb, filled with exciting and unexpected transformations that are thoughtfully complemented by the music. The Fab Four themselves appear in the live action coda.

The endless stream of songs includes "Yellow Submarine", "All You Need Is Love", "Hey Bulldog", "When I'm Sixty-Four", "Nowhere Man", "Lucy In The Sky With Diamonds", "Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band", "A Day In The Life", "All Together Now", "Eleanor Rigby", "Only A Northern Song", "It's All Too Much" and by George Martin, "March Of The Meanies", "Pepperland", "Pepperland Laid Waste", "Sea Of Holes", "Sea Of Monsters" and "Sea Of Time".

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