Reviews

This is a good family film. Well acted. Can't really complain with the direction I guess. The music of course is good. Even the idea isn't bad. But the writing is kind of terrible which sends the movie to a place I was disappointed with. There just seems to be too many plot-holes to count with this whole "blackout" scenario which I expected to be explained but it isn't. And the films conclusion raised so many more questions.

This film centers around an aspiring musician and his manager friend who's really hot and obviously in love with him, but he's too stupid to know it and then one night he's in an accident involving a nationwide blackout and when he wakes up no one knows who the Beatles are so he decides to write their songs himself and gain success.

First of all this film spends most of the movie just talking about how good the Beatles were instead of letting us hear why. I feel like this movie could've been about any bands disappearance. On top of that they threw in this really messy love story that they don't explain well and in the end comes off as a bit toxic.

And the Beatles aren't the only thing that people forgot. There's also Harry Potter, Coca Cola, the band oasis, and all of cigarettes... are you serious? What the hell is this black out? I get the fairy tale story idea but make it a more sound structure. Make me believe it.

I feel this movie would've been better if it didn't try so hard to avoid being obvious. It should've ended with him just waking up in the hospital after hitting his head and realizing that he should just write his own music and proclaim his love to his childhood friend and recognizing he's happy where he is. The end. Lesson learned.

Instead...After feeling guilty about taking credit for their music, the character proclaims his love for his longtime friend at his biggest show and then admits that the Beatles wrote all of the songs, but the Beatles still never existed so no one knows who they are or what he's really talking about. So he kinda just comes off as insane and then releases all the music for free for all the world to hear, saying he doesn't want any money for it(even though earlier he admits to not remembering how a lot of the songs go) and everyone just accepts it.

In the films final scenes, all appear happy. The main character got his girl, and he works at her school now I guess? And they're all singing a song. So in the end, the world never goes back to normal, the only trace of the Beatles that are left are these half realized covers of whatever some guy remembered of them, we live in a Pepsi world, JK Rowling is still living on welfare, and it took all of this for the main character to realize he loves his childhood friend.

(Also there are two very bizarre scenes one where he meets unsuccessful and alive John Lennon where more one note jokes about the Beatles not existing occur. The other scene is with two other people who remember the Beatles as well, one guy is from Russia and the other is a woman from Liverpool. Okay?)