Can we have Lily James in every rom-com?

It was good without being great.

I loved the boat that rocked and about time. I felt this film was missing the heart those films had. There were some lovely moments, some cool moments and some happy moments.... but it was missing that extra 5% for me.

I can see why others have loved it though.

For those that are fans of the Fab Four of Liverpool this is a delightful journey through the Beatles Universe. All the details and analogies made during the film are extremely well placed. The script is all that Curtis has already accustomed us to: a great and refreshing idea and course the right dose of madness. If you know nothing or few about The Beatles this probably will be just another movie, otherwise just be ready for some goosebumps!

I was expecting a different movie. Speculative fantasy maybe. The premise really sold Yesterday to me. Imagine that nobody in the world but you remembers The Beatles, and now you can become a best-selling artist singing their hit songs. Guaranteed success! How would that turn out? Instead, all I got was a cheesy romantic comedy, and not well-written one either. I lost it completely when [spoiler]Ellie told Jack to abandon the one dream he's ever had to be with her, and it was supposed to be his moment for a grand gesture[/spoiler]. You'd never do that to the person you supposed to love! Jack is not an appealing leading character. He spends most of the movie sort of whining and having this aloof look on his face. His "girlfriend" is desperate and annoying, and is just not a good girlfriend on more than one occasion. His parents are dicks. Ed Sheeran's cameos were pretty cute, but no more than that. If you are okay with settling for just another mediocre romantic comedy, then you'll be okay with Yesterday. Music was the best part, duh.

Amazing and funny movie!!! Great music nd performance.

Great movie! Great music! I loved it!

So odd to watch a movie and get an absolutely different idea out of it that the director probably didn't even think of.

I've watched Yesterday because there's Lily James which I'm a huge fan of, and The Beatles, which is self-explanatory. Like, a feel-good movie for a Sunday evening, was on my backlog for a while, might as well watch it and promptly forget it afterwards.

And then this simple movie hits you with an impostor syndrome which is always somewhere back there in your head, and it gets a bit unpleasant to watch.

_Come on, he does not deserve this fame.
He didn't do anything special to get there.
The fact that he's a good singer doesn't mean anything, these are not his songs.
He can't possibly be performing at Wembley, what the hell?_

Thankfully Jack is just as tormented by it as I am, otherwise it would be just impossible to watch. Of course it ends the way you would expect from a feel-good movie (which is what this is) but that is beside the point.

_Why the hell am I even thinking about this stuff when I'm watching this simple-meant movie?_

Well, if there was supposed to be any kind of spark between the main couple I certainly didn't see it. They worked wonderfully as BFFs and were super convincing, but the minute romance was added into the mix, things got awkward and uncomfortable.

Ed Sheeran was surprisingly hilarious. From showing up unannounced to Jack's house, to suggesting Hey, Jude should be named Hey, Dude. Like, he's turning out to be not only crazy talented musically, but also quite good as an actor (even though he was quite literally plating himself). I look forward to seeing more of Ed on movies and TV.

The songs were great, especially loved the ones recorded in Gavin's studio (what a great guy Gavin, to me him and Ellie made so much more sense as a couple). Help! on the other hand, I absolutely hated. That was a terrible cover.

And then there was that emotional, unexpected, shocking bit: John Lennon actually alive. Man, that was a wonderful scene.

All in all, good movie, made that much more enjoyable if you love The Beatles.

A brilliant concept that’s wasted by very weak acting (the lead doesn’t know what he’s doing, and Ed, that GoT cameo was already bad enough, wasn’t it?). Moreover, it thinks it’s a lot funnier than it really is, doesn’t take the premise to its fullest extent, and has characters that are extremely dickish for no reason whatsoever.

4.5/10

So they had one interesting idea and managed to get exactly nothing out of it, besides playing lots of Beatles songs.

While music is great and whole concept for a plot is quite original it just... It just didn't work somehow. I mean, it was nice. But the kind of "nice" where you start to browse your phone at some point in the movie while still watching.

Very entertaining movie, but ‘hey dude’? Really? :upside_down: