Review of Head

Head (1968)
6/10
Hey hey, they were the Monkees
8 April 2018
One thing about Head, it's not a film you should view while doing any pharmaceuticals. It will be life in the booby hatch forever afterward.

Davy Jones, Mickey Dolenz, Mike Nesmith, and Peter Torke were the members of the Monkees who were a rock group put together by TV executives and given a half hour television show back in the 60s. As the Beatles became popular, America had to have its own group of mop tops who did in fact have a few good song hits.

Jones and Dolenz were performers, Nesmith and Torke were musicians yet they did fit together naturally as if they all grew up together. I remember Mickey Dolenz as a blond kid in Circus Boy as Mickey Braddock. Davy Jones had been known for being the Artful Dodger in Oliver.

No use in describing the film, it's a music video ahead of its time. A few folks like Teri Garr, Victor Mature, Jack Nicholson and Timothy Carey make some brief appearances. You can interpret the sequences almost any way you would like.

I wish some of their song hits were feature in Head. Still fans of the group who at that time were the young generation will have some of their expressions voiced.

After all then they were the young generation with something to say.
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