A parody documentary of a Beatles-like singing group called the Rutles, The Rutles was a collaboration between Monty Python alumnus Eric Idle and Saturday Night Live filmmaker Gary Weis. The members of the pre-fab four are Nasty, Barry, Stig, and Dirk. There really isnt any plot, just a series of vignettes, unctuously narrated by Idle, which hilariously skewer the Beatles mythology. Under the guidance of agent Leggy Mountbatten (before he tragically takes a teaching post in Australia), the Rutles rise to the top with such hit songs as Please Please Let Me Hold Your Hand and I Am the Waitress. Mention is made of the Rutles film successes: A Hard Days Rut, Ouch!, Tragical History Tour, Yellow Submarine Sandwich, and Let It Rot. We also see such career highlights as Nastys declaration that the Rutles are more popular than God (he meant Rod, as in Rod Stewart), the rumor that Dirk is dead (whereupon Stiggy starts his own rumor that he is dead), and Nastys unfortunate liaison with a Yoko Ono counterpart (depicted as a Neo-Nazi dominatrix). The parodies of both Beatles songs and Beatles movies are classic, and The Rutles is given an added veneer of verisimilitude through the participation of such Beatles contemporaries as Mick Jagger and Bianca Jagger, as well as George Harrison himself, who shows up as a BBC commentator. ~ Hal Erickson, All Movie Guide