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8 reviews · Provided by Metacritic.com
- 83Entertainment WeeklyEntertainment WeeklyThe 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.
- Shot on location in the Bahamas, Austria, and on Salisbury Plain, HELP!, the second Beatles film, is nonsensical fun.
- 70Film ThreatFilm ThreatGreat cinema it isn’t. Great fun, great music and great company more than make up for that though.
- 60EmpireDavid ParkinsonEmpireDavid ParkinsonThe music, even after a quarter of a century, is the film's redemption.
- 50Village VoiceAndrew SarrisVillage VoiceAndrew SarrisHelp 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]
- 50Film ThreatFilm ThreatHelp! 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.
- 40The New York TimesBosley CrowtherThe New York TimesBosley CrowtherThe boys themselves are exuberant and uninhibited in their own genial way. They just become awfully redundant and—dare I say it?—dull.