Give My Regards To Broad Street

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Summary: A silly fun film
Review: I loved the movie for what it was worth. I found it to be entertaining, and I love all of the songs. The plot of the movie is a bit silly, but hey, you get some wild "music videos" out of it. It's definitly one you should have in your collection if you are a true Paul McCartney fan.

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Summary: Give my regards to both Broad Street and Paul McCartney!!
Review: I saw "Give My Regards to Broad Street" on TV not too long ago, and it is a very well-made film in which McCartney does almost about everything in the movie, like perform the "Ballroom Dancing" scene, which was really great!! Also, when he sang the fast-paced version of "No More Lonely Nights" at the end of the film was great as well. In fact, I can't even get the song out of my head! "Give My Regards to Broad Street" centers around McCartney, who plays himself in the film as a rock musician who daydreams about the fact that his career will come to an abrupt end if he doesn't find some missing tapes of his by midnight.

This film is pretty good for two reasons:
1.) For anyone who is a true Beatles fan.
2.) For anyone who just wants to watch McCartney go solo for once.

Also, fellow Beatle Ringo Starr is in this film, and to me, Ringo pretty much seems lost throughout the film and that I think that he does whatever he wants to, i.e. playing the drums, while Paul does all the work in the film. But all in all, "Give My Regards to Broad Street" is also mostly a musical type of film, but it is still worth watching. This is Paul McCartney's best film since him and his fellow Beatles appeared in "A Hard Day's Night".

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Summary: Great music, funny movie
Review: If you like Sir Paul, you will like this movie. It is funny, it has great music, it is much better than many-many movies that won well-known prizes. Well, have you seen better soundtrack?
Forget about the scrypt(which by the way is great)-who wants it,think about it as a little bit of fantasy + great music and you get a well organized concert. I saw it on CBS, I am going to buy the DVD, and I would recommend it to everybody who likes rock.

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Summary: Give My Regards to Sir Paul
Review: Paul McCartney is in a quest to recover some missing master tapes, and finds time along the way to jam with lovable bloke Ringo Starr. Always fascinated with filmmaking, Paul's "skill" here hasn't really improved since he had a go with "Magical Mystery Tour". Like that earlier film, things come off as disjointed and confusing, but the music sequences deliver the goods. That they do: Paul reprises some Beatles hits as well as songs from "Tug Of War", "Pipes Of Peace", and "Wings At The Speed Of Sound." The music definitely carries the movie, Paul and Ringo are a delight to watch, but the storyline is pretty weak. Fans have head start, but others will probably be bored.

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Summary: Ouch!
Review: Haven't seen the DVD but the vhs is one of those moments were it is truly embarrassing to be a Beatle fan. Integrity, coolness, innovation ... all gone. Paul starts selling out big time. This mockery of a movie marks the time when Paul is done as a creative artist. Even semi good albums like "Flaming Pie" and the badly titled and horrible art work of "Driving Rain" (which might have been a good album if the cover and title didn't suck so bad) went un-noticed because of this album and a few others like the pitiful 'Pipies of Peace". People who liked him gave up at this point. I still love him but this movie seemed to be the beginning of the end when I first heard it and hasn't redeemed itself much since 1984. It's really hard to know what goes through an artist's mind when money, fame and fortune has been aquired. Maybe this movie is a good example. I hear that Paul is recording a new album in 2004. Hard to imagine were he's coming from. I do hope it's from a different place than this.

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Summary: Broad Street: Finally on DVD
Review: (...) It is nice that Paul and/or Fox decided to release this one onto DVD. It's amazing it has been 20 years since the film was released.

First of all, the DVD contains both widescreen and full screen formats (Hint, the widescreen format is on the side with the writing in the center of the disc).

The picture looks much cleaner than the VHS version. It brings a crispness to all the scenes. The sound is better on the musical numbers than the dialog. Still, the dialog is audible. It's great to now have the ability to skip to a favorite scene (the warehouse scene being my favorite).

The extras are only the domestic and international trailers for the film (obviously, both are in english). This is where I deduct 1 star. Paul could have included the making of Broadstreet documentary. It aired in the UK around the time of the film's release there. Also, some sort of commentary would have been nice. At the very least, the video for the single No More Lonely Nights would have been great to include. Perhaps some stills from the movie as well.

Some other interesting facts are that this starred Tracy Ullman (who would later go on to host her own show on Fox--which would feature a then little known cartoon called the Simpsons), Bryan Brown (would go on to star in the smash film F/X, and co star in Coctail, with Tom Cruise). Look for John Paul Jones of Led Zeppelin in the Ballroom Dancing sequence, and Dave Gilmour (of Pink Floyd) provided the blistering guitar solo heard in No More Lonely Nights. Also, it is good to see Paul and Ringo together. We get to see Linda again, as well.

Over all, I would recommend this one for McCartney and Beatles fans. Glad to have it in my collection. Now Paul, how about releasing Rockshow and a video collection spanning 1970-present onto DVD? There are plenty of fans waiting for those as well.

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Summary: Memo to the 'one star' wolf-pack: Let It Be!
Review: In retrospect, it seems infamous big-budget flops like "Ishtar" and "Heaven's Gate" perhaps 'deserved' all the merciless attacks. However,it remains puzzling why the lynch-mob fervor to rip apart Paul McCartney's comparatively small, independent feature "Give My Regards To Broad Street" seems to continue unabated 20 years after its release. If this tuneful, good-natured post card from McCartney to his fans offends you, then you walked into the wrong multiplex, because this film was not made for you. Sure, it's a vanity project, but that has become a rather hackneyed criticism. Doesn't anyone remember another "vanity project" from another rock star that was also released around the same time- "Purple Rain"? Can you say that movie (entertaining as it was) had any more of a "plot" than "Broad Street"? For that matter, how about ANY Elvis movie ever made-any 'plot' points were just lead-ins to the musical numbers, which is all the fans really were paying to see. At any rate, McCartney fans will love the music, which is plentiful. McCartney has some real top flight players backing him up, with appearances from Dave Edmunds, Chris Spedding, John-Paul Jones, Eric Stewart (of 10cc) and an off-camera David Gilmour, who contributed that memorably soaring guitar solo on "No More Lonely Nights". Oh yeah, and some funny looking bloke named Ringo plays drums. DVD notes: No extras, but excellent picture transfer and crisp audio.

Rating:
Summary: Give my regards to both Broad Street and Paul McCartney!!
Review: I saw "Give My Regards to Broad Street" on TV not too long ago, and it is a very well-made film in which McCartney does almost about everything in the movie, like perform the "Ballroom Dancing" scene, which was really great!! Also, when he sang the fast-paced version of "No More Lonely Nights" at the end of the film was great as well. In fact, I can't even get the song out of my head! "Give My Regards to Broad Street" centers around McCartney, who plays himself in the film as a rock musician who daydreams about the fact that his career will come to an abrupt end if he doesn't find some missing tapes of his by midnight.

This film is pretty good for two reasons:
1.) For anyone who is a true Beatles fan.
2.) For anyone who just wants to watch McCartney go solo for once.

Also, fellow Beatle Ringo Starr is in this film, and to me, Ringo pretty much seems lost throughout the film and that I think that he does whatever he wants to, i.e. playing the drums, while Paul does all the work in the film. But all in all, "Give My Regards to Broad Street" is also mostly a musical type of film, but it is still worth watching. This is Paul McCartney's best film since him and his fellow Beatles appeared in "A Hard Day's Night".

Rating:
Summary: A silly fun film
Review: I loved the movie for what it was worth. I found it to be entertaining, and I love all of the songs. The plot of the movie is a bit silly, but hey, you get some wild "music videos" out of it. It's definitly one you should have in your collection if you are a true Paul McCartney fan.

Rating:
Summary: Glad to have it on DVD
Review: It ain't the best movie ever made, but it ain't the worst.

Two big mistakes McCartney made with this project: 1) re-recording old songs (including a half-dozen Beatle tunes), instead of writing all new material (only three new songs were used) 2) writing the screenplay himself, instead of hiring an experienced screenwriter to flesh out his idea.

I can't think of a reason why a non-McCartney fan would want to watch this. If you are a fan, then there's worse ways to spend a couple hours. But really, it's hard to say anything specifically good about this movie. It's hard for me to believe that Macca never realized that the story was so under-developed and unimaginative. For such a creative person, he seems to have set out write the most boring story he could. That's why I consider it a mistake to use old songs-- he could've at least let the movie coast along on the strength of all new material.

I didn't see this in theaters 20 years ago. I can understand why people were so dissapointed. While there's nothing special about the film, it is far from the biggest disaster ever committed to celluloid.