Himesh Patel's s struggling musician discovers after a worldwide power cut that no-one else has ever heard of the Beatles, and consequently uses every Beatles song he can remember to become the world's biggest rock star under the direction of his utterly unscrupulous American manager. Ultimately, he's torn between living the lie and the love he feels for his childhood friend, left behind in Suffolk.
With Richard Curtis behind the screenplay, cutesiness is to be expected, but this is mercifully tempered by having the spikier Boyle as director and letting the songs do all the work, which may be lazy, but does keep things chugging along as we're reminded, by getting them freshened up through the filter of Patel's delivery, of simply how good they were.
One to force on all of today's teens to hopefully make them reconsider the anodyne factory products that they idolise.
6/10
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