Lilly James is charming as all hell, but she's playing a character that just isn't interesting and her motivations are either boring tropes or borderline appalling.
In the end what the movie is really interested in doing is using this really fun concept to tell another boring love story. You could go into what this means for the explosion of fame, the ideas of how the music industry has changed from when The Beatles exploded to now, and at the films best moments it does this and it can be interesting. One direction you could go is full fantasy and explore how this parallel world came to be, but the film ultimately ignores that entirely despite giving weird hints here and there that seem to go nowhere. It's not a bad movie per se, but it's just not a very good movie. There are also the extraneous materials - the maps, diaries, graphic novels, quizbooks, short stories and various other things that aren't novels, but are still parts of Discworld in their own right.A film with a fun high concept but it's focus in the wrong place, Yesterday is charming enough, but ultimately disappointing. Sometimes these are divided into the "Industrial Revolution Books" (Moving Pictures, The Truth, Monstrous Regiment, and sometimes the Moist von Lipwig Series) and the "Ancient Civilization Books (Pyramids & Small Gods)
The Witches books (featuring Granny Weatherwax, Nanny Ogg et al).
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