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The Monkees' Head: A Review
The Monkees' movie, Head, is (to put it kindly) a very, very strange movie. After watching Head, I felt I had just wasted an hour and twenty minutes - which I had. This movie purposely has no plot, and even someone who likes the Monkees' show would probably dislike it, if not hate it.
Head's crazy layout can't be compared to very much. You could say it's like someone making a short story collection out of completely out-of-context sections from a shelf-full of complex 700+ page novels, translated into french by a frog (not Kermit). You can imagine that it would be really messy, and not exactly a best seller.

Sure, some of the scenes in Head are funny, if strange; for example, the scene where they are in a trench on a warfield and one goes to get some ammo, but ends up in another trench trying to avoid the attacks of a crazed football player.

But the only connection between these nutty scenes is at the end where a collection of wild characters from many of the scenes are chasing the band, where they interrupt the opening ceremony for a bridge, and they jump off into the water, in slow motion, while music plays. A part of this scene is shown before the rest of the movie starts, emphasizing how crazily this movie is set up. (It's ok for me to give away the ending because the movie has no plot, and there really is no need for you to waste your time watching this movie.)
Oh yeah, and before you say, "Well, I like the music, so isn't that at least a reason to watch it?", let me answer you: Nope. I wasn't that thrilled with the movie's music, and if you still want to hear it, you can get it on CD or something.

I really wonder why they made this movie. They must have thought it was "groovy" at the time, but unless you have nothing else to do except pick your nose in an empty room (like me), this movie is the biggest waste of time. Don't let this review ke