Help! (1965)
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Cast
as Themselves
as Clang
as Ahme
as Prof. Foot
as Algernon
as Superintendent
as Bhuta
as Doorman
as Abdul
as Jeweller
as Lawnmower
as Cleaner in Temple
as Priest, Thug
as Woman in Street
as Austrian Waiter
as Woman in Street
as George
as Cross Channel Swimmer
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Critic Reviews for Help!
All Critics (27) | Top Critics (4) | Fresh (24) | Rotten (3) | DVD (5)
For casual viewers, the whole thing has a retro charm. For Beatles fans, it's a flawed but essential film.
A Hard Day's Night may be more primitive, but it also seems more spontaneous.
The boys themselves are exuberant and uninhibited in their own genial way. They just become awfully redundant and -- dare I say it? -- dull.
Wildly funny and what a soundtrack!
Help! is stylistically different from its predecessor but The Beatles sure know how to put on a performance.
A witless orgy of expensive production that strangles the Beatles, so fresh and spontaneous in [A Hard Day's Night], in a laboriously foolish plot line and smothers them under tons of handsomely colored feathers.
Audience Reviews for Help!
There's a script and lights and cameras and all that film tomfoolery, but that's of the least concern to the boys who openly flaunt their too-cool-for-film rock personas (and, in a way, they're absolutely right). Nonetheless, here at the internet school of film critique we take these matters seriously and so, yes, Lester has the boys riff the Marx Brothers and James Bond's droll wit to no end, but that's not a bad thing. And there's always the music!
Super Reviewer
Help! You're going to need it if you're a Beatles fan who hasn't seen this movie! I love this movie it's my favourite of the Beatles' movies. It combines great songs and a great comedy plot. I highly recommend it.
Super Reviewer
Ohhhhhh...... what is going on? Does anyone know? I love those movies where you just know what everyone is having fun. This is certainly one of them. It doesn't make sense. The plot is terrible. The script is meh, the acting isn't much better. But it's funny! And weird. AND I loved some of the camera work. No, really. Ticket to Ride was really great.
Super Reviewer
Help! Quotes
| George: | It's a thingy! A fiendish thingy! |
| George: | (to Paul) I didn't encourage that wink. |
| George: | [to Paul] I didn't encourage that wink. |
| Ahme: | From this day it is the RING. |
| Ahme: | This will make his finger shrink a little. |
| Themselves: | Where are you Paul? This is his best suit. [Lennon] (Paul just got shrunk by a syringe shot in the leg). |
| Themselves: | Where are you Paul? This is his best suit. [Lennon] [Paul just got shrunk by a syringe shot in the leg] |
| Themselves: | It's ME! (Lennon being strangled by George) |