#YELLOW SUBMARINE CARTOON GLOVE MOVIE#

Bad Boss: The Chief Meanie, especially towards Max.

Autocannibalism: The vacuum monster eats everything in its universe.

Armed Legs: One class of mooks has shoes that open up to reveal hands holding pistols.

Argentina Is Nazi-Land: Referenced when the routed Meanies consider fleeing there.

Also a Shout-Out to The Goon Show, of which the Beatles were fans.

Arc Words: 'It's all in the mind.' Thanks, George.

It doesn't really explain his failure to notice the rest of Pepperland being invaded around him, though.

Apathetic Citizens: Lord Mayor, the Blue Meanies are coming! What will you do? 'Finish the quartet!' Justified, in that Lord Mayor thinks that the Blue Meanies 'wouldn't dare' actually invade.

They don't kill you if they hit, just remove your colour and make you a slave.

The Blue Meanies' guns fire whizzy cartoon arrows complete with cartoony sound effects.

Ringo pulls some out of himself after his 'arrowing experience in the Sea of Monsters.Animated Music Video: One of the first.BLUE MEEAAANIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIES!!!' Amusingly, he keeps giving this account of things to the other Beatles even after he's calmed down. Angrish: A panicking Young Fred first explains the situation to Ringo as 'Uhh.Rectified in the extended cut, where the real Sergeant Pepper and his band help the Beatles defeat a group of canine Meanies to the tune of 'Hey Bulldog'. Even though the Beatles probably spend more time disguised as the band than the actual band's screentime. And Knowing Is Half the Battle: 'Sixty-four years is 33,661,440 minutes, and one minute is a long time.And I Must Scream: The citizens of Meanie-run Pepperland are shown to be bluish-gray and mostly frozen but still conscious, with one young frozen girl visibly crying.It's hard to tell whether he's supposed to be Camp Gay or an Evil Aristocrat type, since there's a fine line between camp and effete. Ambiguously Gay: The boss of the Blue Meanies.

All There in the Manual: The Bonkers, Snapping Turks and Dreadful Flying Glove are the only creatures in the Blue Meanies' army who are named in the film proper, but both production notes and supplementary materials names all of them: the clowns are the 'Countdown Clowns,' the cats are 'The Butterfly Stompers,' the bald men with pistols in their shoes are 'The Hidden Persuaders' and the guys with snakes for hands are 'The Jack-The-Nippers.'.

Affably Evil: The Chief Blue Meanie, who is actually quite friendly when conversing with Max.

The actual Sea of Green sequence only takes about ten seconds!

#YELLOW SUBMARINE CARTOON GLOVE MOVIE#

Adaptation Expansion: The original song only mentioned that they 'sailed beneath the waves, til we found a Sea of Green,' and while that's still a goal of the movie (as the Sea of Green leads to Pepperland), there are many more seas the Beatles find themselves in before reaching the Sea of Green.Hell, even Liverpool is this! Only Ringo seems to be oblivious to it.Acid-Trip Dimension: Save the scenes in Liverpool, every setting is this!.All in all, it's quite a trip.įor the page about the film's Cult Soundtrack, see here. What it lacks in coherent narrative, it more than makes up for in colorful and imaginative imagery, showing just what animation outside of Disney was capable of. Very weird stuff.īest remembered for its one-of-a-kind psychedelic animation (designed by Heinz Edelmann), it's now considered the Ur-Example of the Animated Music Video, with most of the film consisting of short, usually abstract vignettes set to Beatles recordings. He ends up in Liverpool, where he convinces Ringo Starr and his three 'mates' to return with him and save the day with love, friendship, and rock music. When the land is ravaged by the evil Blue Meanies, a race physically harmed by music and all things positive, the Lord Mayor sends a man named Fred off in the titular submarine to find help.

Once upon a time, or maybe twice, there was an unearthly paradise called Pepperland, a magical under-sea utopia of peace, love and music. An Animated Musical from 1968 that doesn't quite star The Beatles, produced by Al Brodax and King Features Productions and directed by George Dunning, the creators of the Beatles Saturday morning cartoon.

Yellow submarine cartoon glove