one of my absolute favorites!

i must have seen a different film!!

I am only giving this movie a 1 for the great cast, though I can't imagine what any of them were thinking. This movie was horrible

Blistering performances.

...and i'd give it a 10 outta 10 if it wasn't so darn cheezie. but this movie is so personal to me on so many levels. i grew up in SoCal, Hollywood when this was made. i was there at the Hollywood screening, like in a small studio show room. and Earth Wind & Fire, like 8 people from the band, in the row in front of me...but Joe & Steve took my attention away. it was a fantastic evening. i don't even remember coming home...so, yes, this review is biased...but when you see a movie like this and you're 16yo...and you know Tower Records and where the bus stop across the street started a video phenom. it all rushes back to you with this movie. we aren't going to talk about the Beatles, because this movie doesn't do that album (not CD) justice. just watch this movie to revisit 70s Hollywood. the Riot House baby.

I have never even knew that there was a film based on the album "Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Heart's Club Band" until I saw a review of it on the internet. Then I watched some scenes of it and then the full movie. What I was expecting was a bizarre musical 70s Beatles film. What I got instead was the most boring film I have ever saw.The story is really minimal. It's about a guy named Billy Shears who starts a band called "Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Heart's Club Band" to carry on the legacy of his dead grandfather, Sgt. Pepper, who also had a band called "Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band". Then a villain band literally called "Future Villain Band" steals the instruments that once belonged to the old Sgt. Pepper Band, said instruments apparently maintain peace in our heroes' hometown: Heartland. So Billy Shears and friends need to go on an adventure to get them back. There's also some stuff about them being signed to a record label but it doesn't really matter other than being a distraction from the band so one of F.V.B's minions, Mean Mr. Mustard, can steal the instruments.The writing is terrible. There is no dialogue, save for one character, Mr. Kite, who serves as the film's narrator. Instead, the story is told through Beatles songs that were haphazardly strung together in an attempt to make a cohesive story. It didn't work. More often than not, songs that have absolutely nothing to do with the story appear just to slow down or even halt the plot all together. There is a long and drawn out montage of the Sgt. Pepper Band preforming in a bunch of different venues which contributes absolutely nothing to the film. This was when I was tempted to turn the film off. Then towards the end of the second act, the plot comes to another screeching halt to have another concert sequence that contributes absolutely nothing to the plot. Then towards the end of he film, the female lead who is named, and I'm not joking, Strawberry Fields, dies while being rescued by Billy and friends when they have a long and drawn out funeral scene, which is rendered completely pointless when Billy Preston appears out of nowhere and brings her back to life, as well as undoing all of the damage F.V.B. caused to the town. As a result of the terrible "writing", the pacing is really wonky. Some scenes go by too fast and some drag on and on and on for what feels like forever, which is what makes the film so boring. The film's soundtrack is a mixed bag. All of the songs in this film are covers of the original. Some are good, some are just awful. For example, this film's version of "She's Leaving Home" which ruins the song by having robots sing it. It makes the song sound incredibly stupid as a result.All of the film's protagonists literally have no personality. The film's villains on the other hand, do have something that resembles a personality with the exception of F.V.B. but that could be contributed to the fact that the actors playing the villains were hamming it up.Because of the fact that most of the characters have no personality, the acting is practically non-existent, except for, again, the villains who were hamming it up.Overall, this film is boring. It has some interesting moments but they are placed between all of the long and drawn out scenes so this film isn't even worth watching for the interesting parts.

If you love The Beatles, their music, or the types of movies they made, please do not watch this. This sorry excuse for a film is a compilation of terrible renditions of Beatles songs performed by the Bee Gees with Peter Frampton (da fuh??)and imitates the quirky style of the Beatles films that you love. It follows the predictable story of a band plucked from obscurity that rockets to fame, and all their misadventures along the way, mostly focusing on retrieving the magical instruments of Sgt. Pepper that were stolen. The film is occasionally narrated by an old man who makes you wonder what John or Paul would say whenever he starts singing their songs.And what is this? Dr. Loomis from Halloween is a perverted old man who slips a roofie or a drugs or something into Framptons glass that is supposed to be funny, or something.For the most part you can follow what is going on in the story, but at times it's unclear what is going on, and why anyone agreed to do the things that the director asks them to do. For example, Alice Cooper drops his face into a cream pie after cheering for himself singing. Cool. Good job.Oh look, an unnecessary hot air balloon ride scene.The Bee Gees do a great job of looking like horny teenagers whenever they see a pair of legs that they can discern as female. With all the flowy hair and skinny jeans, it is quite remarkable if you can identify a man from a woman in this film. The only scenes worth watching are Steve Martin singing Maxwell's Silver Hammer as a crazy Doctor, and Aerosmith serenading a troop of pelvic thrusting boy scouts who apparently have kidnapped the on again off again love interest. Then Peter Frampton and Steven Tyler strangle each other while wearing very shiny spandex pants until Strawberry Fields pushes Tyler to his untimely demise. Then in shock for killing the one guy in the scene who deserved to live, she passes out and falls to her own electrically charged death.It's hard to tell if this film is trying to pay tribute to the Beatles and their work, or if maybe it's just a bunch of people tripping on Acid and singing Beatles songs. The Bee Gees are over the top and annoying as hell in each scene they're in. The Ringo character chews the scenery incessantly, and winks cheekily at the camera looking even more ridiculous than his counterparts.Oh cool, another unnecessary hot air balloon ride.Just when you think this movie couldn't ruin the Beatles for you any more, they go ahead and find a 70's vision of futuristic robots and have them sing She's Leaving Home in a flat, emotionless, robotic voice. Then mean Mr. Mustard, the villain(?) sings an operatic When I'm 64, and ties Strawberry Fields to the top of his creepy child molester van, and they briefly sing a duet.I stumbled on this film on Netflix. I considered it again and again, curious as to what it could possibly be about. After two years of putting off and putting off giving it a try, I finally in a moment of weakness said to myself, "It can't be THAT bad," and pressed play. What followed was worse than I could have possibly imagined, yet, I couldn't turn it off. There HAS to be a redeemable quality in this. People spent money on this movie to get it made. And possibly thousands of dollars just on keeping the Bee Gees hair feathered and flowy. That is a lot of hairspray, my friends. Then I saw it. That moment when you just know, THIS is why the movie was made! Barry Gibb puts a hand on each of his brother's knees, and looks them both in the eye while singing "I want to turn you on". Frampton immediately leaps from the top of a building to commit suicide. The Deuce Ex Machina shows up out of nowhere and uses his magical pointing finger to zap Frampton back to the precipice from whence he leapt, and does a funky rendition of "Get Back". He then proceeds to turn all the people on the street into priests and nuns, which, of course makes all kinds of sense. I mean, if I could go all Bruce Almighty, that's the first and most sensible thing to do. The film ends in the only way that this movie could possibly end, with a Bollywood song and dance with a bunch of random celebrities and has-beens singing and dancing their hearts out with the Bee Gees and Frampton marching in place in front of them. What has been seen, has been seen, and cannot be unseen.

A strong contender for worst movie of the 1970s. The idea of dramatizing the Beatles songs into a full length movie may have sounded like a good idea after the success of The Who's TOMMY, but in execution, SGT PEPPER is mind numbingly bad. Peter Frampton and the BeeGees substitute for the Fab Four as a band who have to battle the evil Mr. Mustard (Frankie Howerd)for control of their hometown Heartland. Heartworm is more like it. The mayor is the decrepit George Burns and people like Elvin Bishop, Peter Allen, Carol Channing and Leif Garrett make up the town's population. An abysmal, out of touch movie that soils the reputations of a lot of really talented people. Thrown into the mix are Aerosmith, Donovan, Minnie Riperton, Steve Martin and Donald Pleasence...which makes one wonder if the casting director was suffering from a fit of dementia when assembling this lot.