Having grown up seeing the TV show and listening to their music, I was naturally expecting more of the same. Instead, I got a bunch of random weirdness that I turned off after fifteen minutes. What was the point of the whole thing? The 1960's movies made by the Beatles were fun romps, and Pink Floyd's "The Wall", though I didn't much like it, at least had a story (about the musician character Pink). But this was just one random scene after another. A politician flubs his speech at a bridge dedication, we see the Monkees being mobbed by screaming fans-and then they are suddenly mannequins, the Monkees are suddenly soldiers, and then Mickey is in the desert trying to get coke out a vending machine, and then he's beside a pink Sherman tank (probably the type used by the British in North Africa), a bunch of Arabic-type people climb out of it and surrender to Mickey, then Mickey uses the tank's cannon to blow up the vending machine. I decided not to bother with the rest.
The Monkees's TV show was funny, and it had social commentary, sometimes scathing, and though the band may have been prepackaged, their music was still good. This movie was just random disconnected scenes and inferior music, hardly even funny, and it was a total box office flop which would lead to the demise of the professional relationships between those involved. Stick to the TV show and to the music; those are good.
The Monkees's TV show was funny, and it had social commentary, sometimes scathing, and though the band may have been prepackaged, their music was still good. This movie was just random disconnected scenes and inferior music, hardly even funny, and it was a total box office flop which would lead to the demise of the professional relationships between those involved. Stick to the TV show and to the music; those are good.