The Monkees: Head (DVD) Reviews
Description:Genre: Rock - Psychedelia / Artist: The Monkees / Theatrical Release Date: 1968 / DVD Release Date: 2004
Newest Review: ... nature of The Monkees and this aspect to the film is something I've always found interesting. The film seems aware that the ... more
... height of their fame has passed and wonders if they are ever going to escape from being The Monkees. A sixties museum piece.
Head is much darker, more risque and much stranger than anything in the Monkees television series and was interpreted as an up yours to their fanbase and middle of the road commercial America. The fanbase from the television series was too young to get the film (and with some disturbing anti-war Vietnam imagery and the druggy counter culture atmosphere it really wasn't made for them) an...more
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Head is a surreal psychedelic 1968 musical film featuring The Monkees (Peter Tork, Davy Jones, Micky Dolenz and Michael Nesmith). It was a critical and commercial bomb when it was first released but is now regarded to be something of a cult film, maybe even a minor classic. Head was conceived by director Bob Rafelson, Jack Nicholson (who got the writing credit) and The Monkees and unfolds as a series of increasingly bonkers and unrelated vignettes and sometimes fantastic trippy musical sequences. Only a few years later Rafelson directed Five Easy Pieces and became a notable filmmaker and this alone had people scuttling back to Head to see what they might have missed the . Read the complete review
