We all live in a re-released yellow submarine

It is actually very easy to capture the essence of Yellow Submarine, the Beatles 1968 animated motion picture in one word: colorful. The word fits the film in so many ways. The re-released, newly re-mastered film, playing all week at the Brattle Theater in Harvard Square is not just visually colorful. No, this simple adjective represents it all: the absurd plotting, the cornball jokes, the beautiful music, and the complete abandon with which the filmmakers approached its creation. In short, it is pure fun. If Andy Warhol, Dr. Seuss, and Monty Python all went to a party, got really drunk and made an animated musical comedy, they'd get something along the lines of Yellow Submarine. Rarely can one find a movie that so powerfully emanates such unadulterated joy. In this dreary world so full of pain and anger, you can't afford to miss something as cheerful and inspiring as this.