No worries, though, as the film still sports a conceptually challenging yet charming animation style as well as a surprisingly zany plot, both of which save it from becoming more than just another glorified music video. Although the four superstars were initially supposed to voice their equally idiosyncratic cartoon equivalents from start to finish, they can only be heard in the closing segment. This one is a cult classic amongst animators, regardless of whether or not they like The Beatles. In the decades that followed, animators from all over the globe devoted their careers, lives and, in some extreme cases, sanity to pushing its boundaries.Īlong the way, they naturally came up with sights normally reserved for those under the influence of some or other narcotic. Needless to say, the singing and dancing animals that dominated the period which we now refer to as the golden age of cartoons constituted only the first attempt at figuring out what this new medium was truly capable of. This, of course, shouldn’t come as much of a surprise, especially when considering that, from its earliest inception, animation has always been about doing the impossible rather than the possible. Given how drugs alter the fabric of reality itself, animation may just be the perfect form to represent the effects they exert over the human mind. Many of the show’s segments are animated, not only because this makes them funnier but also because live-action simply couldn’t convey what’s happening inside the minds of these people.

In case you haven’t seen it yet, there’s a documentary series on Netflix called Have a Good Trip in which celebrities like Sting and A$AP Rocky discuss their personal experiences with psychedelics.

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