The Beatles - Magical Mystery Tour

Starring:Alexis (XI), Jan Carson, George Claydon, Ivor Cutler, Mal Evans, Shirley Evans, George Harrison, Neil Innes, Nat Jackley, John Lennon, Paul McCartney, Angelo Muscat, Jessie Robins, Derek Royle, Victor Spinetti, Vivian Stanshall, Ringo Starr, Mandy Weet, Maggie Wright
Director: George Harrison, John Lennon, Paul McCartney, Ringo Starr
Studio: Mpi Home Video
Product Type: DVD

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This was the Beatles first album without Brian Epstein and frankly, it showed. Lacking the cohesion they had attained with Epstein at the helm, the MMT was a psychedelic concept meant to follow in the footsteps of Ken Keseys Magic Bus. Rock Milestones takes you through the looking glass, as we draw on the expertise of a top team of critics and musicologists to find the story behind The Magical Mystery Tour. Industry insiders offer their professional insights into how the music was made and its consequent influences, whilst a swathe of carefully researched archive interview and performance footage will take you back in time for a truly first hand experience.

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C'mon, it's the Beatles
I don't know about all these other cats, but I liked it
Finally Mysterical, Edgar (a Luckily Sympathetic Diagnosis)
starring The Beatles, Ivor Cutler & The Bonzo Dog Band - superb
IF you are a beatles fan you already know you love this film

The Beatles: Magical Mystery Tour
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Manufacturer: Phantom Sound & Vision
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ASIN: B0002B55WA
Release Date: 2004-06-01

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Australian DVD (NTSC/Region 0) of the notoriously weird Beatles vanity project that began as a feature film & ended up as a TV special, taken from the same master as the 1988 videocassette release. Features seven songs as well as some newsreel excerpts chronicling Beatles efforts, a brief production history, & trailer. Approx. 50 mins. RBC Entertainment. 2004.

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C'mon, it's the Beatles.......2007-02-18

Despite the usual panning of this movie, I found it to be hilarious and made for people who just want to relax their minds and float upstream. Not technically great but c'mon, it's the Beatles.

I don't know about all these other cats, but I liked it.......2006-11-17

This movie is full of prop comedy, it's the Beatles being comedians, but now I must agree with one of the other reviewers, this is absolute proof the Beatles did drugs, and to truely enjoy it, well, I'll let you figure that out

Finally Mysterical, Edgar (a Luckily Sympathetic Diagnosis).......2006-10-07

And now, in their holy and ongoing quest for expansion of form, the noble knights of the realM bring the sable brush of surrealism to the proceedings both musically and visually. Twisted humor, sly buffoonery, and elastic reality are combined with groaning mountains of overcooked spaghetti and a stripper dancing while the Bonzo Dog Doo Dah Band sings "Death Cab For Cutie"...and what Mystery Tour is complete without midget wrestling? This show is completely misunderstood and underrated: the Beatles could swing the avant-garde with the best of them. This is one of the most perfect expressions of mid-sixties hallucinatory lunacy made, and it is, as such, a logical tangent from the mania and silliness of "A Hard Day's Night" and "Help!". Remember, when the going gets strange, the strange only get stranger, and when the weirdness starts to crackle in from the edges, that's when it's time to turn off your mind, relax, and enjoy the show.

starring The Beatles, Ivor Cutler & The Bonzo Dog Band - superb.......2006-10-01

Five stars for the original film, but only two stars for this DVD.

This DVD is in acceptable video quality - but it shows vdieo artifacts indicating that it was saved at one stage in the transfer to DVD as an inferior quality "SVCD" file. An A/B comparison shows that my 1988 MPI VHS has vastly superior video quality - and the colours are much richer.

The problem with the MPI VHS was that it was all in HiFi mono (even though the cover claimed it to be stereo) - and the songs were dubbed from only the left channel of the stereo recordings (so they all sounded odd).

This DVD has clearly had a stereo effect applied to the dialogue and incidental sounds, but the Beatles songs sounding very much as if transferred from original master tapes at Abbey Road Studios as is claimed on the DVD. The Bonzo Dog Band track has been given the same phony sounding stereo effect as the dialogue.

There's no good reason why this DVD couldn't have at least looked as good as the 1998 MPI VHS. It really is only just worth the budget price being charged in Australia (approx. US$8)

One major point of value in this film is that it contains the only feature film appearances by both Scottish performance poet Ivor Cutler and The Bonzo Dog Doo Dah Band. Magical Mystery Tour may be silly in places, but that's just par for the course considering everyone involved - and it's about the best quality silliness you'd ever expect to see.

My favourite musical sequences are "Flying", "I Am The Walrus" and "Death Cab For Cutie" (by the Bonzos).

People might be tempted to quibble about minor errors (like synch in "Blue Jay Way") in the film's editing, but at least it's all here in its glorious stereophonic entirety - and this version may be as good as we're likely to get as a DVD release.

IF you are a beatles fan you already know you love this film.......2006-08-30

this is as good a copy of this film as i have seen and for only for 12 bucks.

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The Beatles - Magical Mystery Tour
Starring: Alexis (XI) , Jan Carson , George Claydon , Ivor Cutler , and Mal Evans
Director: Stephen Sanders
Manufacturer: Mpi Home Video
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ASIN: 6304708521
Release Date: 1997-11-12

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This 1968 oddity is probably a film only a total Beatlemaniac could love, but it carries both musical and historical resonance. It also gives intimations of what would happen in the next 30 years as artists gained more and more power over how they were presented. The roots of virtually any rock star's vanity project (including Prince's Under the Cherry Moon) can be traced to this little Liverpudlian home movie. Fresh from the success of their films A Hard Day's Night and Help!, and still under the influence of the intoxicants of the era, the Beatles set out to make their own fancifully psychedelic project. What they got out of it was, essentially, a knock-off album with a few good songs and a lot of filler, which is more than can be said for this alternately self-indulgent and mildly amusing British version of Ken Kesey's magic bus tour. Using some of their favorite actors (including Victor Spinetti, who was in their first two movies), the Beatles make an alternative British travelogue, stopping occasionally to sing songs like "I Am the Walrus" and "The Fool on the Hill." Strictly for completists. --Marshall Fine

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The Beatles DVD Collector's Set
Starring: Beatles , John Lennon , Paul McCartney , Ringo Starr , and George Harrison
Director: Richard Lester
Manufacturer: MPI Home Video / Apple
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ASIN: B00004U0ZP
Release Date: 2000-08-08

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This four-disc set includes two feature films and two documentaries (all previously available on DVD). Help! (1965), in which a religious sect is in pursuit of a sacrificial ring stuck on Ringo's finger, is a broad spoof of the spy flicks of the time, with James Bond-like themes and locales. Songs include "You've Got to Hide Your Love Away" and "Ticket to Ride." Only two years later but strikingly different in mood and tone, Magical Mystery Tour (1967) is chiefly a series of psychedelic music videos, including "Fool on the Hill," "I Am the Walrus," and "Blue Jay Way," loosely organized around a plot of a bus trip through the English countryside.

The Beatles: The First U.S. Visit is an 83-minute black-and-white documentary by acclaimed directing brothers Albert and David Maysles that captures the group's trip to the U.S. in February 1964. It includes plenty of songs as performed on The Ed Sullivan Show, of course, as well as footage of the band riding the train or sitting in their hotel room watching television coverage of themselves. A subsequent performance in Washington, D.C., suffers from grainier footage and spotty microphones, but still captures the frenzy of the fans.

You Can't Do That!: The Making of "A Hard Day's Night" is an hourlong documentary that traces the creation of the historic 1964 film. Hosted by Phil Collins, who appeared in the original among a crowd of screaming teenagers, the film features extensive clips and interviews with those involved with the movie (though George Harrison is the only Beatle whose voice is heard). A highlight is "You Can't Do That," a performance that was cut from the original film. Obviously, a perfect DVD set would include A Hard Day's Night itself, but rights issues have kept it out of circulation. --David Horiuchi

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The Beatles DVD Collector's Set includes:

Help!
Nominated for two British Academy Awards, this 1965 theatrical feature takes the Beatles on a worldwide comedy adventure. After a magical ring gets stuck on Ringo's finger, a group of oriental mystics and a mad scientist stop at nothing to try to get it back. Special features include a fully restored print from the film's original negative, a digitally remastered soundtrack, 15 minutes of bonus footage, Spanish and French audio tracks, and English, Spanish, and French subtitles. Songs include "Help!", "You're Gonna Lose That Girl," and "Ticket to Ride."
Color, approx. 90 minutes, Dolby Digital

Magical Mystery Tour
A musical film fantasy that follows the Beatles on a psychedelic bus tour along the English countryside. It made its British debut on Christmas day 1967. Special DVD features include a fully restored print, a digitally remastered soundtrack, bonus newsreels, a history of the project, and English, Spanish, and French subtitles. Songs include "Magical Mystery Tour," "I Am the Walrus," and "Fool on the Hill."
Color, approx. 54 minutes, Dolby Digital

The Beatles: The First U.S. Visit
An historic, musical ride back in time as the Beatles come to America for the first time on February 7, 1964 and appear on the Ed Sullivan Show. Special features include 13 Beatles performances, a fully restored print, a digitally remastered soundtrack, a Beatles chronology, discography, and other statistics, and English, Spanish, and French subtitles. Songs include "I Wanna Hold Your Hand," "Till There Was You," and "Twist and Shout."
Black and white, approx. 83 minutes, Dolby Digital

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Take a surreal adventure, featuring the Beatles, on a magical bus ride across the countryside, called "The Magical Mystery Tour." All is not what it seems and maic is everywhere on the psychedelic bus trip. So get on board!

The Beatles - Magical Mystery Tour (English, Spanish and French audio tracks)

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The Beatles - Magical Mystery Tour (English, Spanish and French audio tracks)
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SUMMARY: On the heels of the Beatles' first two successful films, A Hard Day's Night and Help!, came Magical Mystery Tour. Produced and directed by the Beatles themselves, the tour in question is a psychedelic bus trip around the English countryside where all is not what it seems and magic is everywhere. So get on the bus with the Beatles and a colorful cast of interesting fellow travelers for an afternoon of comedy, music, competition, magic and even romance! PERSONNEL: John Lennon, Paul McCartney, George Harrison, Ringo Starr, Victor Spinetti, Jessie Robbins, Ivor Cutler, Derek Royle. Directed By The Beatles. ++++ This officially licensed release from South Korea is in ENGLISH (Dolby Digital Stereo) as well as Spanish (Mono) and French (Mono) with optional (removable) English, Spanish and French subtitles; includes Interactive Menu, with access to all 21 Chapters, as well as Chapter Search.

THE BEATLES DVD Help! (1965) + Magical Mystery Tour (1967)

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THE BEATLES DVD Help! (1965) + Magical Mystery Tour (1967)

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This DVD contains BOTH movies: HELP! Originally filmed in 1965 and starring JOHN LENNON, PAUL McCARTNEY, GEORGE HARRISON and RINGO STARR. Directed by RICHARD LESTER. Original film soundtrack includes the following BEATLES classics: HELP! YOU'RE GONNA LOSE THAT GIRL YOU'VE GOT TO HIDE YOUR LOVE AWAY TICKET TO RIDE I NEED YOU ANOTHER GIRL THE NIGHT BEFORE MAGICAL MYSTERY TOUR Made in September of 1967, the film contains the only live version of John Lennon's "I Am the Walrus." Third of the Beatles films to include Victor Spinetti, famous for his mohair sweater wearing role as the television director in 'A Hard Day's Night' and as the determined scientist with the laser in 'Help!' The movie was originally shown on BBC TV on December 26, 1967.

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