It may be expected that Evan Rachel Wood is as charmless on record as she is onscreen, but it's hard to ignore how Dana Fuchs furiously channels Melissa Etheridge (especially on "Helter Skelter") to no avail when her performance is isolated as music, but the biggest surprise is that Bono not only looks like a dead ringer for Robin Williams in the film, but he sounds a bit like him too, as he gracelessly slaughters "I Am the Walrus" and "Lucy in the Sky with Diamonds" with his dogged, overly earnest readings. Curiously enough, that's as true of the actors as it is the pro singers.
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Taymor's overly designed fantasia is at once too tasteful and too garish, which is an odd combination for an odd movie - and something that may be more gripping onscreen than it is on record, where the flaws of the casting tend to be harder to ignore, at least in musical terms. Pepper and it's not as stuffy as All This and World War II, but avoiding these two traps isn't a very high bar to meet, and Across the Universe winds up having its own bewildering gaudy moments.
Certainly, it lacks the appalling tackiness of Sgt. As soundtracks to misguided Beatles-inspired movies go, Across the Universe - the companion piece to Julie Taymor's pseudo-psychedelic fantasmagoria extravaganza, telling the story of the '60s through the tunes of the Fab Four - isn't too embarrassing.
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