![]() Taken as a whole, it’s singular and sublime - a fusion of Peter Max and Lewis Carroll, Salvador Dalí and Madison Avenue - and audiences now have a special chance to taste that magic on the big screen again. If “Yellow Submarine” is a movie you grew up with, I’d wager that you could be enraptured by any random image from it. The Beatles’ celebrated cartoon feature, directed by the Canadian animator George Dunning (who had overseen the Beatles’ weekly cartoon series for ABC-TV), came out in 1968, and it’s remarkable to consider that in all the years since, no mainstream animated feature has come close to matching - or even trying to match - its majestically trippy pop-art dazzle. Has there ever been an animated feature as deliriously infectious, as blissed out on its eye-candy surrealism, or as sheerly madly gorgeous as “ Yellow Submarine”? But there was a moment 50 years ago when one movie cartoon got high, floating above the rules and over the cracked psychedelic rainbow. Fox,” hits a ruling visual style and sticks to it. ![]() Just about every animated classic, from “Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs” to “Spirited Away,” from “Toy Story” to “Persepolis,” from “Fritz the Cat” to “Fantastic Mr.
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