The Beatles - Help!

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Summary: The Beatles at their Best!
Review: The least critically acclaimed but my favorite of the Beatles movies, Help is just... fun! Trippy enough to be entertaining, but not pretentious, it'll have you alternately laughing and singing along for an hour and a half. The movie, of course, has a fantastic soundtrack, and the Fab Four perform in very creative locations (particularly cute is when they go sledding as they sing "Ticket to Ride"). The story is perhaps a bit politically incorrect now, but they manage to parody an Eastern cult without getting too racist. Little touches in the movie are the best part, with lots of quotables ("A thingie! A fiendish thingie!"- George Harrison), and scenes that are just adorable (possibly since they were still a little innocent and not too doped up when they made it), like when Paul plays a girl like she's a guitar. It's not deep like their later work (think "You've Got to Hide Your Love Away," not "Eleanor Rigby"), but it succeeds in what it sets out to create, which is a fun, entertaining movie.

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Summary: Before the time of MTV, CD's, and Desk-top Computers...
Review: One cannot deny that Help! is a significant cornerstone in the musical video industry. This is exceptional footage of the boys' primetime. Whether you believe other Beatles footage is better or movie content is better, the visual and musical content of this movie will stand out forever.

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Summary: Go fans! We rock! (though not as much as the Beatles)!
Review: I'm sorry, but all of you who think "Hard Day's Night" is better than "HELP!" are smoking crack. "Help!" blows away HDN -- not that the former is a bad film -- but, c'mon, it's just a "day in the life" of the Beatles, while HELP! is a fantasy. "Two lagers and lime and two lagers and lime" is the funniest bit ever in a Beatles film.