Monday, March 29, 2010

"Help!" (feature) by The Beatles – ****

First released: 1965

This, not "A Hard Day’s Night", is my favorite Beatles movie. I like it because of the surreal Monty Python-like humor, the locales and more plot-filled story. Most Beatles fans find this an inferior follow-up, but I really don’t care. I’ve watched "Help!" far more often than any of the four other Beatles feature films and still like this one the best. I always wished that they had done "A Talent For Loving" or any of the other possibilities for their third film if this was the direction they were going. Instead we got stuck with the dismal "Let It Be".

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