Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band

Name: Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band
Genre: Adventure, Fantasy, Comedy, Musical
Released: July 24, 1978
Duration: 113 min
Rating: 27
Cast: Barry Gibb, Dianne Steinberg, Donald Pleasence, Frankie Howerd, Maurice Gibb

1978

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Universal Pictures | Release Date: July 24, 1978 | PG

Starring: Barry Gibb, Dianne Steinberg, Donald Pleasence, Frankie Howerd, Maurice Gibb, Paul Nicholas, Peter Frampton, Robin Gibb, Sandy Farina, Steve Martin

Summary: Small town band hits it big, but they must battle a nefarious plot in the music industry.

Director: Michael Schultz

Genre(s): Adventure, Fantasy, Comedy, Musical

Rating: PG

Runtime: 113 min

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The 1978 film musical Sgt. Pepper’s Lonely Hearts Club Band is a mess…but it is a wonderfully fascinating mess, a mother lode of undiluted insanity. Read full review

David Ansen

Shorn of its inside references, it's a very mixed bag - pleasant but overlong, funny when Steve Martin is on hand and stultifying when Frankie Howerd goes into his Mean Mr. Mustard routines, full of wonderful music that too rarely reaches the boiling point and pathos that sinks to bathos. [31 Jul 1978, p.42]

Janet Maslin

The movie may have been conceived in a spirit of merriment, but watching it feels like playing shuffleboard at the absolute insistence of a bossy shipboard social director. When whimsy gets to be this overbearing, it simply isn't whimsy any more. Read full review

Nathan Rabin

Like The Star Wars Christmas Special, Sgt. Pepper puts a beloved, ubiquitous cultural institution in a new context so staggeringly, mind-bogglingly inappropriate that it engenders an intense, almost unbearable level of cognitive dissonance. Read full review

Staff (Not Credited)

Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band will attract some grown-up flower children of the 1960s who will soon find the Michael Schultz film to be a totally bubblegum and cotton candy melange of garish fantasy and narcissism. Read full review

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This crass moral pantomime is plain embarrassing. Read full review

TV Guide Magazine Staff (Not Credited)

Pathetic acting and a scattershot plot sink this pitiful attempt by producer Robert Stigwood to turn the landmark Beatles album Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band into an engaging film. Read full review

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Habibiehakim

Apr 5, 2022

Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band is a lovely tribute to not only the band, but the album itself (plus Abbey Road), everybody's performing really well, the story that they make based on the song was creative, funny, sad, emotional, and fun.

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