YesterdayMovie has a good, dumb premise — but only the first half of Danny Boyle’s Beatles fantasy-comedy works
Himesh Patel in Yesterday. Photo: Jonathan Prime/Universal Pictures The fantasy-comedy Yesterday poses the question “What if there were a rupture in the space-time continuum so that the Beatles never existed, but somehow you remembered them and could reconstruct their songs and pass yourself off as the greatest songwriter of all time?” Yes, that’s quite a hypothetical, but a lot of good movies are born from dopey adolescent fantasies , and this one at least has some element of shame built in.
Only the first half works, though. It’s fun when our failed musician turned superstar hero, Jack Malik , realizes what has happened and “writes” one classic after the next, attracting the attention of an awed Ed Sheeran . There are a few irresistible scenes: Jack’s attempt to play “Let It Be” to his distracted parents, the withering patter of a talent agent as she assesses Jack’s look .
Curtis isn’t the director of Yesterday; Danny Boyle has been brought in to lend his shallow virtuosity. But fluid transitions don’t make the movie less clunky. Patel has an appealing presence and a lovely, McCartney-like tenor, but the musical numbers leave an odd taste. Beyond the individual songs, it’s the Beatles’ evolution — their long and winding road — that fires our collective imagination.
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