Help!

Name: Help!
Genre: Adventure, Comedy, Musical
Released: August 25, 1965
Duration: 92 min
Rating: 58
Cast: Eleanor Bron, John Bluthal, Leo McKern, Roy Kinnear, The Beatles

1965

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United Artists | Release Date: August 25, 1965 | Approved

Starring: Eleanor Bron, John Bluthal, Leo McKern, Roy Kinnear, The Beatles, Victor Spinetti

Summary: Sir Ringo Starr finds himself the human sacrifice target of a cult, and his fellow members of The Beatles must try to protect him from it.

Director: Richard Lester

Genre(s): Adventure, Comedy, Musical

Rating: Approved

Runtime: 92 min

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Ira Robbins

The music (including Ticket to Ride) is wonderful and the European scenery an eyeful, but this is ultimately a movie starring the Beatles rather than a Beatles movie, and there’s a big difference. Read full review

TV Guide Magazine Staff (Not Credited)

Shot on location in the Bahamas, Austria, and on Salisbury Plain, HELP!, the second Beatles film, is nonsensical fun. Read full review

Staff (Not Credited)

The simple good spirits that pervaded A Hard Day's Night are now often smothered as if everybody is desperately trying to outsmart themselves and be ultra-clever-clever. Nevertheless, Help! is a good, nimble romp with both giggles and belly-laughs. Read full review

Empire David Parkinson

The music, even after a quarter of a century, is the film's redemption. Read full review

Andrew Sarris

Help does not indicate that Lester has depleted his bag of tricks, but rather that he is too addicted to fragmentation for its own sake. [09 Sep 1965, p.15]

Staff (Not Credited)

Help! is basically five sight gags played over and over in unimaginative variations. Halfway through, the film literally runs out of steam and the second half of Help! (especially the dismally dull Bahamas scenes) can only be tolerated by the most rabid of Beatles addicts. Read full review

Bosley Crowther

The boys themselves are exuberant and uninhibited in their own genial way. They just become awfully redundant and—dare I say it?—dull. Read full review

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JLA66821

Dec 12, 2021

solid film, great music, fun story, lighthearted tone, very nice, very fun.

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MattyIce34

Feb 20, 2022

Their best movie AND album. Paul the best Beatle. “Help!” a top 3 song. Don’t @ me.

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Habibiehakim

Feb 24, 2022

8.5/10
First let me just say that i was not a big fan of A Hard Day's Night the movie, i think overall the movie was ok and the song is the one that help the most on A Hard Day's Night, all the performances including all The Beatles was it is what it is, and the story is just not that great,8.5/10
First let me just say that i was not a big fan of A Hard Day's Night the movie, i think overall the movie was ok and the song is the one that help the most on A Hard Day's Night, all the performances including all The Beatles was it is what it is, and the story is just not that great, Help! is a big improvement, big big improvement, i think all the performances including The Beatles was way better and i can even say they were great, i like the song way better, and that doesn't mean i don't like A Hard Day's Night album, i just feel Help! in terms of album is better, the movie was in color now!, and that was one of the big point too because how they use the color in this movie is just great, it's really making the movie beautiful in terms of a look, but basically everything in Help! is way better than A Hard Day's Night except one, the story, which is the same main problem i have with A Hard Day's Night, the differences is that i did think Help! story is better but it's still not the best, i'm pretty sure there is still quite a lot of better story for Help! than this, but again in terms of an experience i have better time, at in the end Help! is still have a lot of good thing than the bad thing and that's making it Help! still a really good movie.… Expand

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