HELP!
The Beatles
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DVD/Video, released in 1965 Songs / Tracks Listing The song titles that appear in the film are: - John Lennon / guitars, vocals
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THE BEATLES Help! ratings distribution
(45 ratings)
Essential: a masterpiece of rock music(22%)
Excellent addition to any rock music collection(38%)
Good, but non-essential (31%)
Collectors/fans only (7%)
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SPECIAL COLLABORATOR Errors and Omissions Team

Interesting experience, funny when you judge it with year when it was made on mind (e.g. you can't compare it to today's production). Music itself quite fits this film, I especially like Another Girl with Paul holding a girl and playing her like a guitar. It's funny, everyone is taking things easy here (even those that are supposed to be serious) and when I first saw it I was drunk. Even funnier back then.
I'm not sure what I should rate here. Songs, film, it's confusing. I hope I understood it well when I take this as "film" Help!, not soundtrack, not songs, but films itself, review of film.
4(-) as combination of music and film in which it is featured ?
SPECIAL COLLABORATOR Symphonic Team

The title track has been covered ad infinitum for good reason as it captured a generation, the paranoia of the war, the loneliness and alienation of a technologically advancing society, the terror of the 60s. Or it could just be asking for help. In any case these tracks are wonderful and memorable and the film's greatest moments are when the tracks are heard.
The film itself is rather bland although in colour, A Hard day's Night or Magical Mystery Tour are far better in terms of quality. Overall it is still an enjoyable trip and one for Beatles collectors.
PROG REVIEWER

I never have seen the films made by Elvis Presley in those years (and I really don`t want to see them), but I have read some reviews about them and they were considered as very bad in quality. I also read in a book written about The Beatles that they even did not like this "Help!" film very much, even calling it as "cardboard". I agree with them. I think that for them making this film was like doing another job that their manager had for them. So, even if they were working very hard composing songs, playing concerts, doing interviews, etc., they still had to make this film. It was the high time of the "Beatlemania" and they were working very hard recording two albums per year from 1963 to 1965, and also recording songs which only were released on singles. It is also very known now that by 1965 they have met Bob Dylan in the U.S., , who introduced them to the use of a herbal substance which they used to have some fun while doing this film. Even they mentioned it, they joked and laughed about this use in the "Anthology" video series.
PROG REVIEWER

The Beatles, who were in the phase of the discovery of marijuana, as Paul and Ringo said in a lot of interviews, often arrived on the set "facts", and the eyes, very red, testify. Because of this problem, it was difficult to be serious on the film set: the fab4 kept laughing and forgetting the text, and they took the film as an opportunity to have fun and have a holiday by the sea and in the mountains. So, they asked to go to the Bahamas and the Alps to ski, a sport they had never done before.
The film is funny, sometimes it seems an action movie, sometimes a yellow genre.
The seven songs of the film are the songs of the first side of the record "Help!" Most are Lennon's songs: Help! The dylanian "You've Got to Hide Your Love Away", "You're Gonna Lose That Girl" and the masterpiece "Ticket To Ride". Paul's contribution is of modest quality: "The Night Before", "Another Girl" (Paul will however place two great songs, "Yesterday" and "I've Just Seen a Face" on the B side of the album), that of Harrison, ahimé, of poor quality: "I Need You". Harrison will refer to Rubber Soul.
On the set of this film, thanks to the various Indians present, Harrison will come into contact with the sitar and coup de foudre!
Vote 9. Five Stars.
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Help! Is a sillier-than-Monty-Python comedy film with much of the same wit (even though it's pre-Python). The movie is very much a James Bond spoof (the James Bond theme with a few notes changed is played throughout), but it is also a spoof of Hinduism and a platform for shots of The Beatles lookin
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