Good to know, oilgun!
I saw another wonderful one yesterday: "Across the Universe." A must-see for Beatles and/or Julie Taymor fans. (She's the one who did tremendous things with color and Salma Hayek in "Frida" and who made the very interesting "Titus" with Anthony Hopkins.)
It maybe helped that I went into this with low-ish expectations. Some of the critics have been very harsh, calling it things like "a spectacular failure." I didn't see it that way at all. In fact, I found the plot remarkably absorbing.
It's basically a musical made up entirely of Beatles songs, and set during the time that each of the songs it uses came to be. One review I read said that the Vietnam War was to this movie what AIDS was to "Rent." I didn't much care for "Rent." Never saw the stage version, but I thought the movie largely sucked. So this was way better, IMO.
Here's the most pleasant surprise of all, in a movie, to me, full of surprises: Evan Rachel Wood can sing. Like an angel. I cried three times during this movie, and two of those were when she was singing, just at the beauty of her voice and the underlying emotion. This is the first movie since "Brokeback" after which a complete stranger singled me out to talk about it. It was a woman about my age waiting for her husband/partner to come out of the rest room. She goes "Great film, huh?" I said "Wasn't that wonderful?" She goes, "Oh, yes. And what a tremendous amount of talent, there."
The harmonies were GORGEOUS.
It didn't hurt that Jim Sturgess, who plays Jude (the Paul counterpart) is a dead ringer for my first longtime boyfriend and probably the love of my life. And man, what a sweet, but powerful, voice. Joe Anderson, who plays Maxwell (Max), the John prototype, had the perfect voice for his songs, too, and was adorable in every other way.
Hell, I want to see it again just to catch some of the Beatles in-jokes I missed. And to figure out some more of the cameos. One of Jakey's faves does a neat rendition of "I Am the Walrus."

One part got a little too Sgt. Pepper-ish for my taste, as much as I like the actor who did the bit (not gonna tell ya who he is - you'll all figure it out). But once that passed, I was right back in it. Lovely.