Across the Universe

Beatles songs are the sound track to a '60s love story splashed on a canvas of social upheaval: race riots, student unrest and draft resistance. What did the four fab Englishmen have to do with all these American crises? We have no idea, and neither does the script. But director Julie Taymor is a picture magician, weaving the fine old songs into a psychedelic tapestry of animation and choreography.