Head Review

Review of Head (1968) by screenqueeen: 👍 4.5/5

Oddly of its time and prescient; intercutting footage of war victims and screaming girls watching their favorite band play live knowing full well these events are playing side by side in real time does more than each skit/segment that follow.

It just as easily rips apart the very real acknowledgement that a band as commercially successful as the Monkees are in fact morphed into a commodity that seeped into a remarkable amount of American households. It would have been incredibly easy for everyone involved here to phone it in, picking only the hits for the band's filmic debut, lifting the television series' style rather than try anything new. But what we have is this fascinating near-4-dimensional artifact of a film that goes well beyond the Monkees as celebrity figures or individuals.

It also couldn't truly be a product that includes the band as themselves if it weren't then imbued with their spirit and senses of humor, and their comedic touches are all over this thing.