Have you ever listened to a soundtrack before seeing a movie? Well, I did that with this movie and completely fell in love with it and came to memorize and sing the songs whenever I could. So, could the movie be as great as the soundtrack for it? Would the performances match the quality of the songs?
If I told you I was going to make a movie where I would have the great Christopher Walken married to female-fat-suit-wearing John Travolta and that their offspring would be an average looking, short, stocky girl who actually beats out very attractive girls to be the star dancer on a teeny-bopper TV show starring X-Men’s own Cyclops and High School Musical’s Zack Efron, would you ever even think of investing 1 cent into it?
A modern musical set in the war-torn 1960’s is where we find the characters of Across the Universe, a Beatles inspired movie that takes you away to a bright and colorful world where a hodge-podge of twentysomethings come together to find themselves, to fight for their cause, and to discover how far they will have to go for peace and love…