The Beatles: Magical Mystery Tour |  | Actor: Beatles
Studio: Phantom Sound & Vision
Category: DVD
This item is no longer available
Rating:  16 reviews
Sales Rank: 84201
Format: Dvd, Import, Ntsc
Rating: NR (Not Rated)
Number Of Discs: 1
Shipping Weight (lbs): 0.2
Dimensions (in): 7.1 x 5.4 x 0.6
UPC: 766486485815
EAN: 0766486485815
ASIN: B0002B55WA
Release Date: June 1, 2004
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Album Description
Australian DVD (NTSC/Region 0) of the notoriously weird Beatles vanity project that began as a feature film & ended up as a TV special, taken from the same master as the 1988 videocassette release. Features seven songs as well as some newsreel excerpts chronicling Beatles efforts, a brief production history, & trailer. Approx. 50 mins. RBC Entertainment. 2004.
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| Customer Reviews: Read 11 more reviews...
 It speaks of the times February 20, 2005
Rob L. (Texas)
17 out of 19 found this review helpful
This movie was a video before MTV.
The video for " I Am a Walrus" is worth having the movie withstanding anything else.
It is aproximately 100% better than any of the crap seen on MTV, MTV2 or Fuse today.
More creative, more inventive with primitive tools.
 Do not order this version of Magical Mystery Tour December 30, 2004
J. Steven Hiatt (Chattanooga, TN)
15 out of 18 found this review helpful
I was sent this DVD incorrectly. I ordered the other version which at that time sold for $24.99. This DVD would not play in my DVD player. I was offered a refund from the supplier but Amazon would not offer the replace it with the version I ordered. The price on the version I ordered has skyrocketed to almost $60! Be very careful when ordering.
 In fact, I like it. June 21, 2005
David Maccarnold (Mexico city.)
9 out of 10 found this review helpful
We all know that this movie was the only bad thing the beatles did. But, why bad? This was supposed to be a hippie or a very weird movie. It was on purpose. The music is like all the beatles music, very good. I am the warlus is like pop art and your mother should know, well, when in life you will see the greatest band of the moment ever dancing in a silly way? But you saw it here. 3 stars because of the superb bad quality of this dvd.
starring The Beatles, Ivor Cutler & The Bonzo Dog Band - superb October 1, 2006
John Frame (Brisbane, Queensland Australia)
6 out of 6 found this review helpful
Five stars for the original film, but only two stars for this DVD.
This DVD is in acceptable video quality - but it shows video artifacts which indicate that it was saved at one stage in the transfer to DVD as an inferior quality "SVCD" file. An A/B comparison shows that my 1988 MPI VHS has vastly superior video quality - and the colours are much richer.
The problem with the MPI VHS was that it was all in HiFi mono (even though the cover claimed it to be stereo) - and the songs were dubbed from only the left channel of the stereo recordings (so they all sounded odd).
This DVD has clearly had a stereo effect applied to the dialogue and incidental sounds, but the Beatles songs sound very much as if they were transferred from original master tapes at Abbey Road Studios, as is claimed on the DVD. The Bonzo Dog Band track "Death Cab For Cutie" has been given the same phony sounding stereo effect as the dialogue (and they're miming to their original album track - which was in excellent stereo).
There's no good reason why this DVD couldn't have at least looked as good as the 1998 MPI VHS. It really is only just worth the budget price being charged in Australia (approx. US$8)
One major point of value in this film is that it contains the only feature film appearances by both Scottish performance poet Ivor Cutler and The Bonzo Dog Doo Dah Band. Magical Mystery Tour may be silly in places, but that's just par for the course considering everyone involved - and it's about the best quality silliness you'd ever expect to see.
My favourite musical sequences are "Flying", "I Am The Walrus" and "Death Cab For Cutie" (by the Bonzos).
People might be tempted to quibble about minor errors (like synch in "Blue Jay Way") in the film's editing, but at least the music is all here in its glorious stereophonic entirety - and this version may be as good as we're likely to get as a DVD release.
 " . . . a rolly-polly 60's film . . ." April 28, 2006
S. Zayas (Detroit)
6 out of 6 found this review helpful
In the Anthology series, Paul McCartney used this phrase to describe what the Beatles (Paul, mostly) were trying to create with Magical Mystery Tour. The resulting product, shown in black and white on TV in Britain, was widely panned. Some critics went so far as to say that the film was proof that the Fab Four had lost their shine.
Magical Mystery Tour was certainly no great cinematic work. In fact, it's of virtually no consequence to anyone other than hard-core Beatles fans or stoners that like its psychadelic bent.
Whatever it lacks, it has a surreal, quirky charm that makes it worthwhile. 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. 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. Only in trippy movies like Magical Mystery Tour, or its cousin, the Monkees' Head, can you see stuff like that.
Most of the movie is nonsense but some scenes are quite funny. It's the kind of thing you'd expect if you asked a pot smoking pop group to put together a Monty Python episode.
If nothing else, the movie is, more or less, like an hour show of Beatles videos. Nowhere else can you see videos of "Fool on the Hill," "Your Mother Should Know," and "I am the Walrus." You know that can't be bad!
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