Yellow Submarine Sandwich
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| Yellow Submarine Sandwich | |
| Writer | Douglas Adams |
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| Producer | Oscar Wilde |
| Director | Rowan Atkinson |
| Runtime | Ninety (90) minutes |
| Languages | English |
| Distributed by | BBC |
| IMDb rating | 
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Yellow Submarine Sandwich is a 1968 animated film featuring The Rutles, based on the Rutles song of the same name. The movie starred The Rutles as themselves and was directed by Rowan Atkinson, with the script by Douglas Adams.
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[edit] Plot
The movie opens in a psychadelic place known as Rutterland, which lies beneath a two-star resteraunt somewhere in London. Rutterland suddenly comes under attack by the Blue Titties, who despise the happy appearance of Rutterland and plan on building a greasy truckstop cafe over it. Seeing the situation, the Lord Mayor (Marlon Brando) charges Reasonably-Young Ted (Theodore Roosevelt) to go and get help with the aid of a flying, yellow-coloured submarine sandwich. Ted takes off, just as Rutterland falls to the Blue Titties and their Chief (Gordon Brown).
Ted, in the Sandwich, encounters Barry Wom, and stalks him around London back towards the home of Ron Nasty. There, Ted explains things to Ron and Barry, who then summon Stig O'Hara and finally Dirk McQuickly, and McQuickly takes charge. Ted invites them onto the Sandwich, and they begin a journey that takes them the wrong way and into a place called the Sea of Tits, where they age and rejuvenate rapidly in a brief piss-take of Indiana Jones.
After swimming through the Sea of Whores (in which they briefly lose Barry and then find him again) and the Sea of Manners (where Ron becomes annoyingly polite for a brief period), the group find themselves in an unknown place, and begin to think things over in song:
Disguising themselves as Sgt. Rutter's Only Darts Club Band, The Rutles use their music and good vibes to overturn the efforts of the Blue Titties and free the people of Rutterland. The Chief Blue Tittie is cornered by Somewhere Man, who turns him into a giant flowerpot, and then smashes it over a bust of Karl Marx, which in turn breaks against the head of another Blue Tittie that orders the retreat.
With Rutterland freed, The Rutles return home and (in live-action form) boast about their adventure to the audience, before saying goodbye to the song It's All Too Wet.
[edit] Soundtrack Listing
These songs were originally recorded for the movie, but were later re-released as a Rutles album in their own right.
- Yellow Submarine Sandwich
- Hey Bullfrog
- Elanor Digby
- Love Me To
- Rut Together Now
- Good Times Roll
- Think For Myself
- Sgt. Rutter's Only Darts Club Band
- With A Little Rut From My Friends
- Abie You're A Rich Man
- Only A Northern Slag
- All You Need Is Lunch
- Back in '64
- Somewhere Man
- It's All Too Wet
Additional tracks not featured on the re-release album include:
- Cheese and Onions
- Sea of Tits
- Sea of Whores
- Sea of Manners
- Rutterland
- Rutterland Laid Waste
- Yellow Submarine Sandwich in Rutterland
Sgt. Rutter and With A Little Rut were recycled from another Rutles album, Sgt. Rutter's Only Darts Club Band, and the song Abie You're A Rich Man later appeared again on Tragical History Tour.
[edit] Full Cast
- The Rutles - Themselves
- Gordon Brown - Chief Blue Tittie
- Theodore Roosevelt - Reasonably-Young Ted
- Marlon Brando - Lord Mayor of Rutterland
- Ringo Starr - Somewhere Man
- Your Mom - Elanor Digby (uncreditted)
[edit] Reception
The movie debuted at the Tinn-Cannes Film Festival in 1968, two months after the movie was completed. Critical reaction to the movie was mixed, ranging from outright praise to fierce criticism from angry fat guys in basements. Roger Ebert, famed smearer of the Scary Movie series, wrote:
It's a groundbreaking step in crappy animation. Not only does it capture the psychadelic feel of The Rutles, but it also makes no sense at the same time. That's what you expect in a good movie. Something that looks good but you can't understand.
A more scathing review came from Karl Marx, the screenwriter for various crap movies that I haven't got time to write about, said in a column of U.S.S.R. Today that:
It's shit. That's all I have to say. It's shit, it's shit, it's shit. Flying sandwiches with mayonnaise? Just what the fuck were these guys on, for crying out loud?
Nonetheless, the movie made a considerable profit over the coming weeks. By 1969, it had made a global income of £58,000,000,000,000,000,000, well above the £50 budget, thus making it one of the highest-grossing British movies ever made.
[edit] Behind the Scenes
Between 1965 and 1967, PBS had broadcast a TV series entitled The Rutles, made purely to cash in on the real-life band and make a bit of moolah. The Rutles themselves had no part in it, and were so pissed off at it that they wrote the song Ouch! to try and raise funds for a lawsuit. This, thanks to the efforts of a desperate Wiki writer, helped to close the series after 39 episodes.
Because of this event, The Rutles were initially reluctant about the animated version of Yellow Submarine Sandwich when first approached by the BBC. At one point, Ron Nasty went as far as defecating over the Television Centre to try and get them to leave The Rutles alone, but after a long session of water-torture beneath the streets of London, The Rutles agreed to the project.
The animation was produced by the Disneyland Confederation during a period when Mickey Mouse the Great was attempting to improve relations between Disneyland and the United Kingdom by using subliminal mind control through the media, and used Yellow Submarine Sandwich to this effect, explaining the surrealist imagery of the film.
As the budget was only £50 ($100), cardboard cut-outs of London were used for background shots, whilst other props and sets were recycled from previous Disney cartoons such as A Mountie Mounts a Mountain, My Big Cock-a-Doodle-Do, and the Razzie Award-winning Mickey in Gonorrohea.
[edit] In Popular Culture
- The cartoon was frequently parodied on the Teen Titans animated series, because those stupid bastards at DC Comics thought that England looked like that in real life.
- The Beatles parodied the cartoon themselves with their own album, entitled Yellow Submarine.
- Yellow Submarine Sandwich has become another term for Cannabis, owing to the psychadelic nature of the film.
