Help!
United Artists | Release Date: August 25, 1965 CRITIC SCORE DISTRIBUTION
58
METASCORE
Mixed or average reviews based on 8 Critic Reviews
Positive:
4
Mixed:
4
Negative:
0

Critic Reviews

Critic scorePublicationBy date
40
The New York TimesBosley 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
75
TV Guide MagazineStaff (Not Credited)
Shot on location in the Bahamas, Austria, and on Salisbury Plain, HELP!, the second Beatles film, is nonsensical fun. Read full review
83
Entertainment WeeklyIra 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
50
Village VoiceAndrew 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]
60
EmpireDavid Parkinson
The music, even after a quarter of a century, is the film's redemption. Read full review
50
Film ThreatStaff (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
70
VarietyStaff (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
70
Film ThreatStaff (Not Credited)
Great cinema it isn’t. Great fun, great music and great company more than make up for that though. Read full review
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