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Lester.
Now let's spell the rest of the production team's names.

This from someone who calls himself a Colonel on a pop culture comment board? Priceless.

Yes, because AHDN in no way contained weightless banter interspersed with musical numbers.

"If I Fell?" Really? Wow, I look forward to the origiastic praise of this board once One Direction makes their first movie.

Considering both narrative and documentary filmmaking are just a matter of editing and shaping already existing material, I think you can, and Moon alone outshines whatever antics the Beatles are scripted to perform in AHDN.

Sorry if I prefer well-endowed knockouts and gutsy primal rock to some boyband enuchs watering-down their sources for wholesome famiy entertainment.

That's because it's not full of cheeky white people, doing oh so cute, funny things for their adoring white audience (an AV Club staple).

He was the one who received the most fan mail and had the longest acting career.

Actually Spinal Tap or Gimme Shelter, either on a comedic or social commentary level, are probably the best rock movies ever. Hard Day's Night is really sort of a Frankie & Annette Beach Blanket Bingo movie with electric guitars (though it did cement the Beatles legend far more than just being another teen fad on Ed

Though it's considered thought crime to suggest the Beatles virginal, pre-1965 songwriting (when Dylan was telling women to kiss off and the Stones were doing sex-drenched Muddy Waters covers) doesn't hold up to modern times, it does hold some merit.

Actually considering Bramble gave old school, Ealing comedy satisfaction while the others mostly mumbled, and you had a line in Goldfinger where Bond says he wears earmuffs when listening to the Beatles, it's probably accurate.

Though you have to admit the concept of a Police movie where Sting and Stewart Copeland fight incessantly while Andy Summers walks the beach po-faced might be the greatest thing since Herzog's Kinski doc. 'My Best Fiend.'

This misses the point that the screenwriter played up the differences in the band's personalities - John sarcastic, Paul cute, George glum, Ringo Ringo - to make the comedy (supposedly) shine, while the Spice Girls came off as one undifferentiated shrieking mess.

Art should do more work, especially now with Paul not calling up for reunion tours nearly as much.

Anyone who finds Spice World underappreciated probably doesn't have the taste to comment on either.

Sting and Bowie seem to make a pretty good go at it. Even better, in fact.

Saw this during the 40th anniversary rerelease and honestly most of the humor was lost for me due to their thick Liverpool accents (alot of "yudda-yudda-yudda-Ringo" and so on). Actually the old actor who plays Paul's uncle gets the most laughs through sheer professionalism.HDN is really the progenitor of Spiceworld,

So many music stories to tell rather than rehash the Beatles for the billionth time anyway. The mix of angry John and saccarine Paul wasn't THAT fascinating…

Except to say you're in better shape. You'll always have that.

…at the expense of men you are in better shape then, right? Making sure those skinny English men know who's boss, right tough guy? Good natured fun with a touch of 'you're not better than me,' no doubt.