But like Allen with A Midsummer Night’s Sex Comedy, the Fabs found that once they left the city and roved around the country looking for inspiration, they floundered. Though an auteur like Woody Allen would have his actors improvise their lines, he would still have an overall structure to everything he did.
#BEATLES MAGICAL MYSTERY TOUR MOVIE NOT SUCCESSFUL MOVIE#
Part of the problem was that the band that didn’t have a track record as film-makers, yet they somehow thought that they could pull off another bold move - a movie with no script. Granted, Magical Mystery Tour was a much riskier proposition than Pepper, including a grander visual element in the form of an entire movie behind it. Buoyed by that incredible success, the group’s new de facto leader (the future Sir Paul) hatched another cute idea for their next project: “Let’s pile into a bus with our friends, go out into the country and film whatever happens!” This time though, things didn’t work out as well.
Pepper’s Lonely Hearts Club Band, a pop-art milestone on the level of Warhol. About one year before the movie, Macca had a wonderfully child-like idea, straight out of a Mickey Rooney movie: “Let’s pretend that we’re another band and put on a big show!” Despite their studio hibernation and zero touring promo, the boys scored commercially and artistically with the epochal and era-defining Sgt. Regardless, Magical Mystery Tour now gets lumped it in the dubious category of crappy movies with great soundtracks like Less Than Zero, Judgment Night, One from the Heart and Singles.
It’s telling that in this video age, it’s only now that Magical Mystery Tour gets a re-release and a PR push, which their label and management has been brilliant at over the last decade as they resell their catalog again and again. Most of us still love the Fabs, but try to sit through their 1967 movie and you’ll regret losing about an hour of your life.
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