box day 1967 be when it all come together for the bonzo dog doo dah band not only do they enjoy a novelty hit with i be the urban spaceman and television exposure thanks to eric idle and michael palin and terry jones pre python child series do not adjust your set and they also have a cameo in a film that be premier that day on bbc1 . a film star a moderately popular beat combo of the era and of whom you might have hear . they be the beatles and of course and and their film be magical mystery tour . a it be come together for the bonzos and for the beatles and thing be fall apart fast . brian epstein and their manager and mentor and be dead and and this film their first movie project without epstein guide hand or richard lester behind the camera be thrash mercilessly by the critic and and this clearly still rankle with paul mccartney decade later . but however much he want the world to believe that this film be ahead of it time and how it be the predecessor to the modern rock video clip and how it influence monty python and save the whale to boot and there no get around the elephant in this particular sitting room . put simply and magical mystery tour be a shamble . badly film and badly light and badly stag and badly act and badly edit and badly script ( by mccartney and it must be say and though i can understand his insistence that the whole thing be improvise i sure wouldn not want to take any credit for this fiasco unless someone hold a gun to my temple ) and this fifty minute splurge of drug fuel self indulgent excess take a lot of patience to sit through and even if youre a beatles fan . what could have be a good natured romp simply come across a someone else dreary home movie intercut with a zero budget student film project by pretentious stoner . there be some good song here fly and i be the walrus and your mother should know and the joyous title track but absolutely nothing to prop them up . surrealism only really work when it juxtapose with some form of reality and which be why tour flop so badly there nothing here that even point towards reality . i have hear every conceivable excuse for tour incompetence it suppose to be experimental and they be try something different and they never claim to be film maker and it suppose to be offbeat and silly and there lie the problem . there a grain of truth in all these statement . tour be try too hard to be a hundred and one different thing at once and and ultimately buckle under it own indecision .