All You Need Is Cash

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Greybrother D A wacky, Python-adjacent parody of Beatlemania that feels like a precursor to This is Spinal Tap, and gradually expands to include the whole music industry and the nature of celebrity and popular culture. I couldn't call myself a fan of the Beatles, but I like them, and of course understand how important they were, so... I couldn't really tell you if this movie might piss off a Beatles fan. It might. It's not always the nicest, but it's not a smear campaign or anything. At times it seems to be caught in an uncanny limbo between parody and admiration of the Beatles humor. ..It doesn't make a lot of sense to try and parody what's already comedic. I think that's why this doesn't work better. The songs are decent enough, mostly as a result of cleaving pretty closely to real Beatles songs, but none of them are funny or anything. The whole movie is more dryly silly than funny, but it's enjoyable enough if you know anything about the popular culture of the 60s era. Rated 3/5 Stars •  Rated 3 out of 5 stars 06/26/25 Full Review Augustine J The Rutles: All You Need Is Cash is a hilariously British mockumentary that is completely carried by Eric Idle. Idle does a great job in this and he is by far the stand out part of the film. It's freaking crazy that they got Mick Jagger and Paul Simon for this. Also the cameos by the early SNL cast helped to make it endearing. This movie is a short and very very British movie, that I would fully recommend if you are a fan of Monty Python, The Beatles, or British humor. Rated 4.5/5 Stars •  Rated 4.5 out of 5 stars 03/01/24 Full Review Audience Member I thought this was a dreadful bore. It's a parody, but one that isn't certain where the joke is. As a result, you have a satire without soul that seems like a collection of feeble jokes that don't land. It is only 76 minutes long, but The Godfather felt shorter. Rated 1.5/5 Stars •  Rated 1.5 out of 5 stars 02/11/23 Full Review Rich S It's the silliness of the narrations with the backdrop of passable music that makes the movie very entertaining. Throw in interviews and scenes with stars of the late 1970s like Mick Jagger, Bill Murray, Paul Simon and John Belushi and you've got the makings of a pretty stylish endeavor that delights in not taking itself seriously. Rated 4/5 Stars •  Rated 4 out of 5 stars 07/25/20 Full Review Audience Member It's as if the figures on the SGT. RUTTERS ONLY DARTS CLUB BAND album cover had come to life: Monty Python meets the Not Ready for Prime Time Players meets Spinal Tap avant la lettre meets the Fab Four—a satirical yet adoring pastiche with clever cameos, hare(ison)brained gags, and dead-on parody songs up to snuff for an apple scruff. Rated 4.5/5 Stars •  Rated 4.5 out of 5 stars 01/30/23 Full Review Audience Member Brilliant send up of the beatles.The music also good and thanks to the genius of Neil Innes , all the music sounds like it came from that era. Rated 4/5 Stars •  Rated 4 out of 5 stars 02/24/23 Full Review Read all reviews

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