"The film's success is in a series of satires on movie clichés, and in several blackouts. These are probably Nicholson's, and worth seeing...We get the destruction of a Coke machine, a montage of three stereotyped desert scenes, a Western shoot-out with fake arrows, a Hollywood soda fountain brawl, things like that. They're good, and the rest of the movie (including trick photography that already seems out of date) isn't unpleasant. And you may, for metaphysical private reasons of your own appreciate the scene where The Monkees play dandruff in Victor Mature's hair."
Roger Ebert

"A mind-blowing collage of mixed media, a free-for-all freakout of rock music and psychedelic splashes of colour."
- Daily Variety
"Random particles tossed around in some demented jester's wind machine."
- Richard Combs, MFB (Monthly Film Bulletin)

"It's spotty, but there are some inspired moments, some great photography, really odd guest stars, and some of the Monkees' best songs. It's all very anti-establishment and drug-tinged."
- The Psychotronic Encyclopedia of Film

"A narrative cul-de-sac of genre parodies, musical numbers, smug antiwar statements, and bilious McLuhan-esque satire...it's uneven but mostly a blast, with great tunes like Harry Nilsson's "Daddy's Song," Michael Nesmith's barn burner "Circle Sky," and Gerry Goffin and Carole King's grandiose "Porpoise Song."
- J.R. Jones, The Chicago Reader

"Peculiar, compelling riposte to the Monkees' manufactured TV image. Psychedelic, imbued with cynicism...If your abiding image of The Monkees is one of the perky four-piece up to wholesome high jinks, prepare yourself for quite a shock...Intentionally comic but painfully self-conscious...it's also astounding cinema, a very personal trauma played out in disturbing acid-warped visuals. Messy it may be, but Head acts as a fascinating document that marked the passing of Woodstock's loved-up summer into the violent winter of Altamont."
- Channel 4 Film

"..it's The Monkees' own 2001--their YELLOW SUBMARINE--their GODZILLA VS. THE THING. Not just a good film, not just a weird film, this is one of the most cleverly-conceived masterworks of the LSD era. And would you believe me if I also said it was one of the few most cerebral and hallucinogenic movies ever made? All on a G-rating? Well, you'll just have to check it out for yourself, won't you?"
- Steven Puchalski

"The point seems to be to take aim at every genre they can think of, so the band are sent to fight in the Vietnam War, making it surely one of the first films to take a satirical stand on the conflict, or plonked right down into a boxing drama with Davy up against Sonny Liston and Annette Funicello as his tearful girlfriend in the crowd imploring him to take a dive. But all these scenarios warp, as if the force of the disdain for the formats is too much for the plot logic to hold together....While the music is edited in just as randomly as the rest of the story and footage, it all blends together, if not smoothly, then at least provocatively."
Graeme Clark, The Spinning Image

"Despite obviously dated aspects like clumsy psychedelic effects and some turgid slapstick sequences, the film is still remarkably vital and entertaining....The typical zany humour is intercut with harsher political footage and satire on established genres of American cinema, exploding many a sacred cow into the bargain."
- TimeOut Film Guide

"The result is a visually daring cinematic game that is virtually plotless and better off for being so."
TV Guide

"A psychedelic trip of a movie which does for the Monkees what A Hard Day's Night (1964) and Yellow Submarine (1968) did for the Beatles, and what Monty Python did for us all. Sometimes funny, slick and clever, often just plain silly."
- Halliwell's Film & Video Guide

"There are some funny moments...but film is a mess (by design - that's the shame) and tedious."
- Danny Peary, Guide For the Film Fanatic

"This plotless, triplike movie, which resembles a big-budget episode of "Laugh-In" for dopers, is filled with constant reminders that everyone involved was aware of the plastic, preconceived nature of the Monkees."
- Jay Schwartz, Hollywood Rock

"The film tosses in old jokes, blackout routines, documentary footage of the suffering and horror of war, plus the Monkees, and tries to sell it all as a mind-blowing psychedelic collage."
- Pauline Kael, 5001 Nights at the Movies

Compiled by Jeff Stafford