![]() Pepper’s Lonely Hearts Club Band performs and spreads peace and joy wherever they go from WWI through the forties, accompanied by a voiceover from George Burns and featuring numerous, period arrangements of the title song: Sgt. ![]() – Written by Aaron Sherman Opening Sequence Built around the music of the beatles, this musical uses some big name groups like Peter Frampton and Aerosmith. Now, they must thwart a plot to destroy their home town. * Use the Print Friendly button at the bottom of the post – button only shows up if you’re viewing the post as a separate page – if you don’t see the button, click on the post title to display it as a separate page.įirst, let’s start with the IMDB description of the movie:Ī small town band makes it big, but loses track of their roots, as they get caught up into the big-time machinations of the music biz. If you’ve never seen the film you should either see it before you read this, or print this out* and and follow along in it as you watch. If you wanna cheat and look ahead a little bit to see if the movie’s even worth watching at all, go ahead. The AYHO moments are what make this movie worth watching, and so very, very entertaining. In particular, pay close attention to the “Are You High, Or…” headings they highlight the most jaw-dropping moments and sequences in the movie, and there are MANY. ![]() But I LOVE this film, and I think that by the end of this commentary, many readers will at least find a lot to marvel at-if not exactly “appreciate”-in it. Pepper’s Lonely Hearts Club Band is one of those movies that was pretty universally panned when it was first released, and entire generations of movie watchers have been hating on it ever since. ![]() Hopefully, more than a few of you can relate. I saw it the first time in a theater, at about the age of 12, so many of the observations I’m about to share are from my 12 year old self, back then. Pepper’s Lonely Hearts Club Band twenty or more times by now, and I expect I’ll watch it at least twenty more times before I shuffle off this mortal coil. In which I presume to add my own commentary track to a noteworthy film. ![]()
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