All you need is love.
Not currently showing on the local cinema circuit.
| Cast |
Evan Rachel Wood, Jim Sturgess, Joe Anderson, Dana Fuchs, Martin Luther, T.V. Carpio, Spencer Liff |
| Director |
Julie Taymor |
| Screenplay | Dick Clement, Ian La Frenais, Julie Taymor |
| Music | Ellito Goldenthal, John Lennon, Paul McCartney |
| Cinematography | Bruno Delbonnel |
| Editing | Françoise Bonnot |
| Sound formats | Dolby Digital, Sony Dynamic Digital Sound, DTS |
| Soundtrack | Available |
| Made in | 2007 |
| Produced by | Revolution Studios, Team Todd, Gross Entertainment |
Official Site | IMDB page | ScreenIt Report
Trailer: Small | Medium | Large
| Genre | Musical |
| Language | Mild |
| Nudity | None |
| Sex | None |
| Violence | Mild, playful |
| Prejudice | None |
| Blasphemy | None |
| Drug abuse | None |
| Comments | None |
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Frightening / Tense Scenes |
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Tense Family Scenes |
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Topics to talk about |
| Scale (Max) | 20 |  |
What the Critics say | ||
| Cape Argus / The Star Diane de Beer  Magical, mystical, musical... | 15 |  |
| Die Burger Mariana Malan Niks in die rolprent gryp jou werklike aan nie. | 5 |  |
| The Citizen Leon van Nierop Across The Universe is a glorious, colourful, inspiring, provocative mess. It is like going to an over-the-top wedding of somebody you don't know at all and participating in a feast, without boundaries | 14 | |
| 24.com Jean Barker Across the Universe is really just a series of music videos made by the same person and linked by cheesy dialogue. | 5 | |
| BBC Stella Papamichael The love story really takes second place to a wild carnival of sights and sounds. | 10 |  |
| Chicago Sunday Times Roger Ebert Here is a bold, beautiful, visually enchanting musical where we walk into the theater humming the songs. | 20 | |
| eye Weekly Jason Anderson Maybe it's the presence of so many well-loved songs or the sincerity of the singers but something about Across the Universe makes it easier to forgive (and even savour) the many florid excesses. | 10 | |
| ReelViews James Berardinelli I have heard Across the Universe being referred to as this generation's Sergeant Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band, and I can't refute the argument. | 10 | |
| Rolling Stone Peter Travers To call it trippy would be an understatement. Your head might explode. Just don't accuse Taymor of playing it safe. | 13 |  |
| ScreenItFun for those who will get all of the references, and some individual moments are brilliantly conceived and executed. | 11 | |
| Metacritic.com 29 critics | 11 | |
| Rottentomatoes critics 126 critics | 12 | |
| Rottentomatoes tomatometer Tomatometer Psychedelic musical numbers can't mask the clichéd love story. | 10 | |
What the People say | ||
| Internet 7403 Netizens Let's say Hair and Moulin Rouge had a baby... | 16 | |
Average .. 58% | 12 | |