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Summary: What a Trip!!!
Review: This is a very different movie. I had to watch it at least five times before I even discovered there really is a plot! The reason this movie is so different is because you can not have a clue as to what the heck the film is about and still enjoy it. The songs are very good (despite what Monkee detractors may say) and the twisted convuluted plot line makes for good watching. If you like to think and analyze EVERYthing you see, DEFINITLY get this movie. If you like sly and sutble humour, watch this film. If you have no respect for the Monkees based on what you may have seen and heard others say, SEE THIS FILM. It may sound cliche, but trust me, it'll make you a believer.
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Summary: This is the best movie I have seen and ever will see!
Review: I'm only 11 and I've seen this movie over 50 times! I love the Monkees and this movie is the greatest! The Monkees Rule! END
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Summary: AWESOME
Review: I love the monkees, I'm only 18, but my friends and I fell in love with the monkees last summer. When we found out they had a movie, we had to watch it. It was awesome! Nothing at all like the sitcom. I didn't really get the point 'till the second time I watched it, but even so, the entertainment factor was enough! WATCH IT!!!!!!!! END
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Summary: PSYCHADELIC AND A GENIUS OF A MOVIE I LOVED IT!!
Review: I have watched this movie I would say more the 30 or 40 times and I am only 22 years old. I saw it first when I was 10 years old and even then I had to go to Erol's videos to rent it every single weekend to watch it. It is very much like a Beatles movie with crazy things going on in every point of the movie; plus also very errie at the same time--it is a dark comedy on The Monkees whole career. They make fun of dream sequences making them trips of the mind that was occurring during the sixties. It is the coolest movie I have ever watched and I loved all of the Beatles movies also, in my eyes as a Monkee maniac I thought it was even better than any Beatles movie I have seen; because it does have Davy, Peter, Micky, and Mike along with many big name stars of the time Annette Funicello, Terry Garr, and many more. Try it you might like it. I did and I love it. END
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Summary: Head is a trip!
Review: What is so unique about HEAD is that it's dreamlike in a way that few movies are. A uniquely crafted film inspired by the underground films of the 50s & 60s. Few movies manage to be entertaining solely on the strength of editing, but here a series of dreamsequences are seemlessly strung together in a fun and innovative way. The most revolutionary part has to be the way the beginning and end sequences were connected by the events between them yet are the same scene with only slight variations. Huh? As the Monkees put it, "when you see the end in sight the beginning may arrive". How they do it is masterful. If you try to make sense of this movie, you'll be missing the point. The best thing to do is just mellow out before you watch it and allow HEAD to mess with your head a little. It will if you give it a chance and that makes for a truly rewarding viewing experience. Outside of the Monkees trying to escape their manufactured image, nothing really makes sense in this strange little movie. However, criticising HEAD for it makes about as much sense as critising your dreams for being equally strange and nonsensical. Where comedy is concerned, HEAD is not funny in a humorous way but rather in a peculiar way, similar to the way dreams have you saying, "what was that all about?" later on. If this had been a hit, it could have taken popular filmmaking in a whole new direction.
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Summary: I can dig it!
Review: I am 21 years old. My mother raised me with the monkees music and tv shows. I did not see this movie until 2 years ago. I was impressed. And so should everyone else be that called them a "fake" band and so on. The talent is remarkable, as well as the direction and the writing. This film involves all of the angst and emotion of their personal lives as well as the sign of the times. They were trying to find love and peace in a world ridden with war. At the time they were so passionate about their beliefs, as well as with trying to strip off the stereotypes that people put on them by thinking that they weren't original or by comparing them to the Beatles (with whom they were friends with and hung out with on a regular basis). Everyone will have a different opinion after watching this movie. My opinion is that it is thoroughly enjoyable and an absolute shame to never see. There are so many different scenes and wonderful actors and great music! I think I am going to watch it again right now. Oh, and remember:Nobody ever lends money to a man with a sense of humor.
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Summary: cult classic
Review: All I have to say is if your a true monkees fan your wasting your time I'ts terrible. How ever if your a huge fan of Rocky Horror Picture Show, Shock Treatment,J-Men Forever and any movie that director
Ed Wood did "except" Orgy Of The Dead (thats just asking for punishment.)than this movie is awsome.
I don't under stand why Peter Tork is the star of the movie ,he's on the least compared to the other guyes.
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Summary: Rafelson's genius presaged
Review: Head (Bob Rafelson, 1968) Rafelson is to be commended for managing to make anything out of Jack Nicholson's completely incoherent script and turning Head into a ninety-minute episode of "The Monkees." History has proven Rafelson to be a fine director, and one quails at the thought of what other stock directors from the TV series might have done with this mess. With the direction issues aside, the best way to handle Head is to have fun playing spot-the-cameo. Aside from the Monkees themselves and the always wondrous Timothy Carey (the only actor, it is said, that Elia Kazan ever physically attacked), Head is chock full of brief appearances by luminaries of the time-- Rafelson, Nicholson, Dennis Hopper, Frank Zappa, Annette Funicello, etc. etc. ad nauseam. The music is certainly not your usual Monkees, either, with a decidedly darker overtone than most of their oeuvre, and the humor, as well, is much darker than the show ever got. If you're a Monkees fan, you've probably already seen it; if you're a serious student of American culture, you've probably already seen it. Most others probably wouldn't want to, but it's fun, in its own thoroughly warped way. Just don't expect coherence. **
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Summary: Head out, headstrong, headlong, "Head" over heels
Review: The Monkees. 1968. ('Nuff said, eh?) I first saw "Head" around 1980 under the influence. I saw it again recently not under the influence. Ah, the memories of my youth. "Head" still holds up. What other movie makes me say constantly "this is superb" and "is this superb?" It's "a series of vignettes," to be sure, albeit psychedelic vignettes. Maybe it's like "Yellow Submarine" but with real people. A little deeper than the TV show. And the cameos! Frank Zappa, Victor Mature, Annette Funicello, Sonny Liston, Carol Doda, Dennis, Jack, and Bob... First view might be a tad overwhelming, but when you recall certain scenes the next day you'll "get" them. Of its time, but less dated than some. And surprisingly light-footed in its "message." Which is nice. Psychedelic? perhaps. Baloney, perhaps not. One big day-glo thumb pointed to the circle sky. N.B.: Davy's chorus in "Porpoise Song" is one of his finest moments. Attaboy, Mike!
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Summary: Uneven, yet also containing amazing moments
Review: Like all cult movies, "Head" contains unusual, unorthodox - even beautiful - moments interspersed with material that simply does not work. With "Head," the Monkees - the most maligned pop rock group of the 1960s - created some of the very best and biting sequences that have ever appeared in a rock movie. It's not as consistently brilliant as "A Hard Day's Night," "Almost Famous," or "This is Spinal Tap," but it's one of the very best rock films ever made.
Virtually everyone knows that the Monkees were American TV's attempt to harness some of the Beatles' electricity. Unfortunately for the Monkees, their TV debut almost perfectly coincided with "serious" rock criticism, which brutally mocked them as prefabricated, defamed them as hoaxes, and ridiculed their brand of Beach Boys-meet-British Invasion sound. Persecuted beyond belief, the Monkees were denied anything resembling hip status and their resentment of this treatment influenced the insights the band (along with Jack Nicholson) contributed to the screenplay.
In one memorable sequence, the Monkees are mobbed onstage after performing a song. They're ripped to pieces by their adoring fans, revealing they aren't human at all but merely robotic mannequins. In another, they change the lyrics to their TV theme song to admit they are nothing but soulless fakes. And, in sequences framing the beginning and end of the film, we have simulated suicides. All of this is accompanied by some of the most accomplished psychedelic pop any mainstream rock band recorded in the hippie era. (It's very fitting that "The Porpoise Song," which plays over the credits here, was resurrected in the similarly disturbing film "Vanilla Sky.") This is nightmarish, haunting material unlike that of any other rock film of the 1960s. To the Monkees, the last 1960s psychedelic revolution wasn't the dawn of Aquarius; it was Armeggedon.
Unfortunately, there are also a lot of injokes, and some hammy slapstick that would not have been out of place in the Monkees TV series. This ruined the pace of the film, and detracted from the Monkees' message. The DVD version of the film suffers further in not being widescreen, and requires minor restoration beyond what was done for the VHS release a few years ago.
This isn't a film for everyone. If you like to believe that rock and roll can change the world (or if rock is now totally irrelevant to you), you won't like this film. If, on the other hand, you love rock with a passion and aren't afraid to question the foundations of many of your rock beliefs, you will find many segments of this film rewarding.
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