![]() Seen now, the all-you-need-is-love-to-fight-the-Blue-Meanies flower-power fancifulness of “Yellow Submarine” never feels trapped in a late-’60s bubble. (Around the same time, they were inventing music video, pioneering the notion of pop musicians as gurus of their own record label, and - on The White Album - throwing out hot, raw chunks of what would become the rock aesthetics of the ’70s.) “Yellow Submarine” was a fairy-tale extension of the Beatles’ brand, and one had come to count on a certain singularity from the Beatles, who lent that quality to everything they touched. In 1968, the movie definitely felt “different,” but that was only to be expected. It’s a delight to go back to, or to see for the first time, and what unites those two experiences is that even now, in the middle of the renaissance age of animation, “Yellow Submarine” stands apart, reminding you of what a cartoon feature can truly be: a miraculous mutating object that keeps flipping reality inside out. To commemorate its 50th anniversary, “Yellow Submarine” is being re-released, in a startling new 4K print (it was cleaned and restored by hand, one frame at a time), by Abramorama, the distribution company that had a success two years ago with Ron Howard’s deft and revealing early-Beatles-on-tour documentary “Eight Days a Week.” The “Yellow Submarine” revival kicked off on Monday, July 9, and the movie, which is playing in 79 theaters, will be expanding throughout the summer. Taken as a whole, it’s singular and sublime - a fusion of Peter Max and Lewis Carroll, Salvador Dalí and Madison Avenue - and audiences now have a special chance to taste that magic on the big screen again. ![]() If “Yellow Submarine” is a movie you grew up with, I’d wager that you could be enraptured by any random image from it. The Beatles’ celebrated cartoon feature, directed by the Canadian animator George Dunning (who had overseen the Beatles’ weekly cartoon series for ABC-TV), came out in 1968, and it’s remarkable to consider that in all the years since, no mainstream animated feature has come close to matching - or even trying to match - its majestically trippy pop-art dazzle. Has there ever been an animated feature as deliriously infectious, as blissed out on its eye-candy surrealism, or as sheerly madly gorgeous as “ Yellow Submarine”? But there was a moment 50 years ago when one movie cartoon got high, floating above the rules and over the cracked psychedelic rainbow. Fox,” hits a ruling visual style and sticks to it. Just about every animated classic, from “Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs” to “Spirited Away,” from “Toy Story” to “Persepolis,” from “Fritz the Cat” to “Fantastic Mr.
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