Simple and well acted, it has tension enough to knot the stomach.

Good films always raise compelling questions, whether the format is fiction or documentary fact.

A film of deceptively outspoken contemporary relevance, this is cinema at its most alert, alarming and alive.

It is encouraging that the film ends so strongly.Otherwise, it wouldn't have been a particularly memorable film

I saw this film about a year ago. I remember liking it on first viewing but I didn't love it until the fourth viewing. So what is "Head" about. The Monkees commit career suicide by jumping off a bridge and the scenes that follow show us in abstract ways why The Monkees chose to commit suicide. Pretty simple right? not really. These sequences can be hard to decipher but that makes it more re watchable and open to multiple interpretations. Some are just entertaining as well as thought provoking such as Mickys desert scene. I think it's one of the best things The Monkees ever did and because they took the risk, we now have a underrated gem. The movie thematically and from a filmmaking perspective is so artistic and gorgeous. The movie is very hip for the time and perfectly captures the counterculture of that era.Sure, it might of not been the movie The Monkees should of made for the benefit of their careers but it was the right movie to be made for the time and for The Monkees to fire back at the media for calling them fake etc.I actually did this movie as my related text for some of my English essays in my final year of schooling this year which I'm pretty proud of.I would highly recommend this to see how bizarre but awesome this film is.

The Monkees had a few songs that could be described as protest songs, like "Last Train to Clarksville" or "Circle Sky", songs that were clearly against the Vietnam war. This movie compiles in my opinion the best Monkees songs. Classics like "The Porpoise Song", "As we Go Along", "Daddy's Song", and a lot of other great classics. However, as the Monkees' protest songs are mainly against war, this film seems to be a protest film in itself, one of the first of its time in 1968. Not just a protest against Vietnam as always, but a protest against how they thought their creativity was ruined by their increasingly silly television show where they all met (This is why they keep getting trapped in that black box throughout the movie in case you didn't know). The Monkees were involved in this project from beginning to end, but they must have been pretty angry when they found out that only Jack Nicholson and Bob Rafaelson were getting screen credits for writing this psychedelic masterpiece, even though there really isn't that much in terms of a proper script. In the end, however, you may be thinking that I'm thinking too much into this film, and that it's just a bit of fun fluff in a surreal little package, and they may be true, but I will never care to know. I do know one thing though."Hey Hey we are the Monkees You know we love to please A manufactured image With no philosophiesThe money's in, we're made of tin, we're here to give you more."

Having grown up seeing the TV show and listening to their music, I was naturally expecting more of the same. Instead, I got a bunch of random weirdness that I turned off after fifteen minutes. What was the point of the whole thing? The 1960's movies made by the Beatles were fun romps, and Pink Floyd's "The Wall", though I didn't much like it, at least had a story (about the musician character Pink). But this was just one random scene after another. A politician flubs his speech at a bridge dedication, we see the Monkees being mobbed by screaming fans-and then they are suddenly mannequins, the Monkees are suddenly soldiers, and then Mickey is in the desert trying to get coke out a vending machine, and then he's beside a pink Sherman tank (probably the type used by the British in North Africa), a bunch of Arabic-type people climb out of it and surrender to Mickey, then Mickey uses the tank's cannon to blow up the vending machine. I decided not to bother with the rest.The Monkees's TV show was funny, and it had social commentary, sometimes scathing, and though the band may have been prepackaged, their music was still good. This movie was just random disconnected scenes and inferior music, hardly even funny, and it was a total box office flop which would lead to the demise of the professional relationships between those involved. Stick to the TV show and to the music; those are good.

A respectable effort for the Monkees attempt at a maturation process. This is a quite wonderful, wistful, experimental conglomerate of trendy sixties pop-culture references and rapid-fire non sequitur editing that is entertaining and stimulating.It was probably too "heady" for their pre-teen fans and considering the disrespect real "heads" displayed toward their pre-fabricated ness, it got lost in the trash bin of critical dismissal and fan disapproval. Truth be told. The Monkees were never as bad as their critics claimed and never as good as their avid fans insist. They had enough talent to produce some catchy tunes and had a likable, innocent charm. Their TV show is fun and their albums are not without their place in the "bubble-gum" arena and were as a whole quite good.This movie's reputation has grown over the years and does hold up to repeated viewings and is partly funny and irreverent. It is never boring and is a solid timepiece. The group did try something different then their TV show and were successful in their only attempt to grow out of their teen-idol restraint (just like The Beatles). The irony is that they were a piece of manufactured plasticized, throw-away, planned obsolescence, pop culture that was designed to self-destruct.