I felt the same - I finally watched it with my sister on one of the cable channels because she really wanted to see it.
Some of the covers weren't all that great, but I was hella impressed with Dana Fuchs who sang covers of Why Don't We Do It In the Road, Helter Skelter, and Oh, Darling. WDWDIITR was particularly good. Strawberry Fields, I Want You (She's So Heavy), and Happiness is a Warm Gun were pretty good, particularly with the accompanying cinematography, and Because was actually really beautiful with the nine part harmony. And I actually really liked the (mostly) a capella version of I Want to Hold Your Hand.
Oh, and Joe Cocker singing Come Together was fantastic! Best vocal performance in the movie by far. Eddie Izzard was pretty cool doing For the Benefit of Mr. Kite. I wasn't all that impressed with Bono - he did I Am the Walrus (so-so) and Lucy in the Sky With Diamonds. Elton's cover of the latter was much much better.
The rest... you could take it or leave it. (You'd probably leave it :-P) But I was surprised that I enjoyed it overall nonetheless.
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Some of the covers weren't all that great, but I was hella impressed with Dana Fuchs who sang covers of Why Don't We Do It In the Road, Helter Skelter, and Oh, Darling. WDWDIITR was particularly good. Strawberry Fields, I Want You (She's So Heavy), and Happiness is a Warm Gun were pretty good, particularly with the accompanying cinematography, and Because was actually really beautiful with the nine part harmony. And I actually really liked the (mostly) a capella version of I Want to Hold Your Hand.
Oh, and Joe Cocker singing Come Together was fantastic! Best vocal performance in the movie by far. Eddie Izzard was pretty cool doing For the Benefit of Mr. Kite. I wasn't all that impressed with Bono - he did I Am the Walrus (so-so) and Lucy in the Sky With Diamonds. Elton's cover of the latter was much much better.
The rest... you could take it or leave it. (You'd probably leave it :-P) But I was surprised that I enjoyed it overall nonetheless.