Across the Universe is the Best Comedy of 2007

It's been a long while since I've been able to sit down in a movie theater, sink into my chair as the lights dim, and then proceed to laugh my ass off for an (ungodly) 131 minutes... which is why I would personally like to thank director and Chinese-water-torture enthusiast Julie Taymor for giving us just that with her Beatles movie musical Across the Universe, the funniest movie of 2007. The movie is a love story between one Liverpoolian "bloke" named Jude (a Paul McCartney lookalike, natch) who heads off to America to find his father, a window washer at Princeton University. Once there, he coincidentally meets a cast of characters named after famous Beatles songs! Including his best friend Max (who, surprisingly, did not have a silver hammer welded to his hand), his landlord Sadie, a small Asian lesbian named Prudence, a Jimi Hendrix clone named JoJo, and various other folks including, but not limited to, Mr. Kite (played by Eddie Izzard.) The movie is a LOLocaust from start to finish. The very first scene is our protagonist, played honestly and quite well by the adorable Jim Sturgess, sitting on a beach. Slowly he turns to look at the camera, stares at us in our seats, and begins wailing "Is there anybody going to listen to my story, all about the girl who came to stay?" Sure, I knew this was a Beatles musical from the get go, but REALLY? THAT is how you're starting a Beatles musical movie? Holy ess. (You can see the beginning of the film here.) Now, you know how I feel about people disturbing others in movie theaters, but I could not help myself from letting a slow but extremely loud trail of urine flow out of me. Things only get worse from there (or better, depending on how you look at it). He falls for his best friend's sister, a girl named Lucy, played earnestly enough by Evan Rachel Wood, aka "Manson's Muse". Frankly, if I were to have titled this movie the literal definition of what I was watching, it would have been Earnest Goes to Camp. Because they were
	Published: 2007-10-01 Provider: VH1