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All You Need Is Cash

1978 1h 14m Comedy List
92% Tomatometer 12 Reviews 82% Audience Score 5,000+ Ratings
This seminal mockumentary satirizes the career of the Beatles via a fictional pop group called the Rutles. Commonly known as the "Pre-Fab Four," Barry Wom, Dirk McQuickly, Stig O'Hara and Ron Nasty are a gang of mop-topped goofballs from Liverpool, England, whose songs bewitch the entire world. But between hits like "Cheese and Onions" and "Doubleback Alley," the group ultimately implodes, leading to a bitter public breakup. Read More Read Less

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Nancy Banks-Smith Guardian ! have forgotten the whole show effortlessly. However, I have a faithful... notebook which rescues me in such quandaries and it says here "he wore swimming trunks in the bath to stop him looking down on the unemployed." Oh, now I remember why I forgot. Feb 28, 2020 Full Review Michael Hayden Empire Magazine Dated and only intermittently amusing. Rated: 3/5 Dec 30, 2006 Full Review Eddie Harrison film-authority.com ...the original mockumentry, a funny, feature-length comedy that features both subject and parodists in perfect harmony... Rated: 4/5 Jan 28, 2022 Full Review Maitland McDonagh TV Guide Many sequences are modeled closely on news footage of key events in The Beatles' much-documented career, and the overall effect is so close to reality that it's downright eerie. Rated: 4/4 Aug 19, 2008 Full Review Linda Cook Quad City Times (Davenport, IA) Rated: 5/5 Sep 20, 2005 Full Review Caffeinated Clint Moviehole Wet yourself laughing! Rated: 3/5 Mar 31, 2005 Full Review Read all reviews

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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 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 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 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 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 out of 5 stars 02/24/23 Full Review Audience Member All You Need Is Cash isn't perfect by any means- not all jokes and parodies land, to the point of actually harming the film, and the editing and camera-work don't hide the lack of budget too well- but the music is good (to the point that it is hard to tell original and parody apart), there are still many funny scenes, Eric Idle is great as always and the many, MANY cameos are hilarious in both surprise effect and execution. Rated 3 out of 5 stars 02/05/23 Full Review Read all reviews
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Synopsis This seminal mockumentary satirizes the career of the Beatles via a fictional pop group called the Rutles. Commonly known as the "Pre-Fab Four," Barry Wom, Dirk McQuickly, Stig O'Hara and Ron Nasty are a gang of mop-topped goofballs from Liverpool, England, whose songs bewitch the entire world. But between hits like "Cheese and Onions" and "Doubleback Alley," the group ultimately implodes, leading to a bitter public breakup.
Director
Gary Weis
Genre
Comedy
Original Language
English
Runtime
1h 14m