Nowhere else can you see videos of “Fool on the Hill,” “Your Mother Should Know,” and “I am the Walrus.
#MANDY WEET MOVIE#
If nothing else, the movie is, more or less, like an hour show of Beatles videos. It’s the kind of thing you’d expect if you asked a pot smoking pop group to put together a Monty Python episode. Mandy Weet CreditsSee All Great Performances Wendy Winters Magical Mystery Tour Miss Wendy Winters See All Credits Latest News See All See All News Trailers & Videos See All Magical Mystery Tour. Most of the movie is nonsense but some scenes are quite funny. If they'd dug deeper, they would have learned that she changed her acting name to Miranda Forbes, and remained active on television until 1998, a few years before she passed away in 2001. Only in trippy movies like Magical Mystery Tour, or its cousin, the Monkees’ Head, can you see stuff like that. I got 7 large muffins from this recipe made in a 6 hole texas muffin tin. It's rather a pity that Mandy Weet gets only a fleeting mention, probably because the preparers couldn't find out any more information about her. Not surprisingly, Neil Innes of Rutles fame (or infamy, if you prefer) is in the The Bonzo Dog Doo-Dah Band, who performs the song “Death Cab for Cutie” - recognize the name, kids? - while a dancer does a striptease.
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Some scenes are just plain bizaare, like the dream sequence in which John Lennon, a mustachioed waiter in a posh restaurant, shovels a table full of spaghetti onto a fat lady’s plate.
Whatever it lacks, it has a surreal, quirky charm that makes it worthwhile. In fact, it’s of virtually no consequence to anyone other than hard-core Beatles fans or stoners that like its psychadelic bent. Magical Mystery Tour was certainly no great cinematic work.
Some critics went so far as to say that the film was proof that the Fab Four had lost their shine. Magical Mystery Tour is an hour-long television special that served as The Beatles third film. The resulting product, shown in black and white on TV in Britain, was widely panned. In the Anthology series, Paul McCartney used this phrase to describe what the Beatles (Paul, mostly) were trying to create with Magical Mystery Tour. This may seem cheap to re-hash my own work, but I like the review so I’m putting it here, on my music blog, where it belongs. It just occurred to me that I had written a review of this oft-criticized film elsewhere. I’m just settling in to watch Magical Mystery Tour for about the dozenth time.
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