In their second joint film, Richard Lester gave the members of The Beatles another tough day. This time in color and with the bloodthirsty cult of the Indian goddess Kali. Lester relies less on the aura of the band itself and more on film genres and their attractions. Above all, however, he relies on the typically anarchic, absurd British humor that the director picked up from the famous radio show The Goon Show, on the basis of which he had previously made a short film together with Peter Sellers. In addition to authentic Beatlemania, the film also offers a refined, zany comedy that subversively breaks with the usual narrative techniques of feature films...
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