Customer Reviews
Help 
2008-04-19
This Beatle flick, like "a Hard Days Night" once again shows the Beatles really knew how to entertain!!! The storyline is more than just running away from fans and trying to have time to relax and be themselves like "A Hard Days Night", but it's adventures of saving Ringo from his cursed ring bringing the viewer around to different countries and, as with Hard Days Night, loads of music videos by the "Fab Four" (but as cautioned in my review of Hard Days Night, you might want to have the volume low at first and adjust to your liking for the sound system (British I think) is different than others. It's cranked!!!!!!!!!!)! Simply put...ENJOY (and let's hope for a better release of "Magical Mystery Tour" and a non-bootleg release of "Let it Be")!
Help 2008-03-11
Yeah Yeah Yeah
Beatles at their best.
Witty, cheeky, the Fab Four.
Loved the movie and the DVD is just like the movie.
Yes buy it.
Best band movie ever! 2007-09-15
We had an old VHS copy from years back that was taped off the tv, and my kids wanted a DVD version. Being an import, I was afraid that it wouldn't play in our machine, but it played in all of them without a hitch. The picture and sound quality are great, especially compared to out old VHS copy!
I am not going to describe the movie, because I think most people have seen it, and if not, then shame on you! ;-)
Amazed at the Quality of the Transfer 2007-08-23
I watched this on my brother's monster HD WEGA and I was back to those Saturday afternoons when Help! would come on back to back with Yellow Submarine or maybe a Hard Day's Night. I always thought the Beatles movies pioneered music videos before there were any. I couldn't believe how crisp the film transfer was since I'd already seen other movies made much later that looked like crap on HD. I would love for an affordable American release, of Help! but this one's plenty satisfactory for me. Rave!
"HELP" yourself to some Beatles fun! 2007-08-06
After the success of "A Hard Day's Night" on the silver screen, the Fab Four triumphs in both music and laughs in "Help"! A good story line about Ringo's ring and the pursuit by Leo (The Prisoner, Rumpole of the Bailey) McKern and company. There are some great songs including the title track. A great price for a DVD if you are fan of the Beatles! Just enjoy!
Help!!! 2007-07-08
SYNOPSIS: In their second feature with director Richard Lester, who oversaw the massive hit A Hard Day's Night, the Beatles again aim for a mix of goofy comedy and sterling pop music. There is slightly more of a plot this time, though it is a patently ridiculous one: a sacred ruby ring comes into Ringo's possession, attracting the unwelcome attention of an exotic religious cult and forcing the boys to go on the run. This chase narrative is thankfully never taken too seriously, serving mainly as an excuse for colorful excursions to international locations from Europe to the Bahamas. The musical numbers include such classic tunes as "Ticket to Ride," "You've Got to Hide Your Love Away," and, of course, "Help!". DVD SPECIAL FEATURES: Theatrical Trailer / Synopsis / Beatles Profiles. COMPLETE SONG LIST: Help! / You're Gonna Lose That Girl / You've Got to Hide Your Love Away / Ticket to Ride / I Need You / The Night Before / Another Girl.
Don't analysize this... 2007-07-07
This movie was hilarious. You have to have an appreciation for slapstick tongue in cheek humor to truly be about to enjoy this film. They are funny young men just having a good time and poking fun at absolutely everything from religion to stardom.
Sit down, kick back and laugh for awhile.
Really nice quality 
2007-06-18
Overall I was very happy with this DVD mastering. I saw absolutely no evidence that this was copied from VHS so forget the comments to that effect from one reviewer. As others have noted, the audio is excellent - clear, crisp mono, as God (and George Martin) intended. If you want the best quality mono version of the soundtrack songs, just dub the musical numbers from this disc to CD! Visual quality is very good although I would like to have seen the original widescreen ratio letterboxed. Colors are sharp and bright and short of a total remastering this as good as we're likely to get. My fear would be that the next "official" Apple reissue would substitute the stereo mixes from the LP, which would destroy the audio integrity, so get this while you can!
Great Trade Up From the Old Version... 2007-06-17
I've had "Help" on DVD for 17 years now; this version is a great upgrade! Subtitles, great sound (I have Bose 901Vs, no surround). The sound is great. Help is described by some as "best watched fast forwarded to the song scenes". Admittedly, it's a great bunch of "pre-MTV videos"! I'm a "John" fan, and he sings the first four of seven songs.
"Help" is first , great classic Beatles performance, in their last? B&W scene.
Next is "Your Going To Lose That Girl"- a fantastic "recording session" scene, great closeups of faces and guitars, nice filmography for 1965. It's worth a watch for the last line; the record producer asks "Boys, are you buzzing?" John says, "No, I'll take the car"! The Beatles were, as John stated, "smoking marijuana for breakfast" during the filming. George said they busted out laughing constantly, ruining several takes..
John plays a 12 string Hootenany in the next scene, "You've Got To Hide Your Love Away". John always hated miming songs, he deliberately made faces, scratched himself, anything for a laugh. Watch for him screwing up the scene twice. Supposedly written for Brian Epstein's life of living gay in the closet.
"Ticket To Ride", my favorite scene, is next. This video ruled MTV for some time in the mid-80s. Innovative photograhy, "Marx Brothers-like" antics and hilarious wipeouts as the Beatles attempt to ski in the Austrian Alps. It's also THE greatest song by the Beatles, in my opinion...classic drumming, guitars, vocals, harmonies, bass, lyrics.
"I Need You", George's "song" for the movie, is filmed on the Salisbury Plain with the Royal Army's Tank Corps, in sight of Stonhenge, I think. They're freezing cold-watch Ringo shiver, just like the Apple rooftop in Let It Be!
"The Night Before" finixshes the scene from above. Funny, it's Paul's first lead vocal in the film. Great bass playing and fisheye lens guitar shots! John almost gets run over by a tank. It's sad, these scenes (like he and George being "old" in the airport scene) are so different since he's dead. Rot in hell, Mark David Chapman!
"Another Girl" is next and pure Beatles fun, as they swap instruments on the Bahaman beach. John is a natural comedian, as usual. Ringo "plays" guitar too. The best part are the girls in those 1965 bikinis! They's cut "James Bond-like", since the movie's a parody of Bond films. They're still hot after all these years!
"Help" is reprised for the final scene which wraps up the silly plot. Think of the targeted age group that saw this in the theatre in '65...
The ending credits are a blast! "The Barber Of Seville" plays with the Beatles screwing around,as usual, laughing, singing, and George plugging his song! Listen to them laugh so hard they end with a collapsing gasp! The filmography, again, just during the credits, is fascinating for "it's day and age" - 42 years now.
This is one of those RARE films, it's a family film, if needed. Yeah, is's not as good as A Hard Day's Night, but it's GOOD+...and the songs are fantastic.
This turned out longer than I expected....
Non-Compatible 
2007-05-31
Chances are very good that this will NOT be compatible with your DVD player. I tried it in two machines with no success. Buyer beware!
