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Ringo becomes the target of a crazed cult who pursues him because he wears "the sacrificial ring." High Priestess Ahme (played by Eleanor Bron) leads a band of inept thugs on a wild chase, following the Beatles from England to the Bahamas.

Each Beatle maintains his own distinct, individual and unique personality and input. John provides the quick quips, ("I'm into rhythm guitar and mouth organ," he tells one thug). Paul provides the straight answers and is a serious foil to John's tendency to fall back into light banter. George maintains a stoic pose and does not go along with popular opinion gladly. In one memorable scene, Victor Spinetti, whose role in this movie is to protect the Beatles, claims he can do voice imitations from "Cagney to Ringo," George grimaces and says, "Doesn't sound A BIT like Cagney!" He also tells a motoring thug who inadvertently picks him up, "thanks for the lift, sailor!"

Ringo appears quite at ease with acting. He maintains his lovable, good old Ringo persona and yet he shows a delightful streak of independence. Ringo does not suffer a fool gladly and he provides many clever retorts throughout the movie.

I admit, I really enjoyed this movie. I preferred the Beatles' first film, the 1964 classic "A Hard Day's Night," but I do enjoy this one. Since I love the Beatles and the song selections are excellent (from the sad, beautiful "You've Got to Hide Your Love Away" to the rousing "Ticket to Ride" and a Harrison composition, "I Need You"), I gave this one 5 stars.

The Beatles are here to stay, yeah, yeah, yeah!

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An EXCELLLENT movie. (But before you read further, I am referring, in this review, to the VHS version.) Anyway, it has a wonderful, funny plot, which is Ringo gets sent a great big ruby red ring, which just happens to be the ancient sacrifical ring, belonging to a cult of demented Hindus. They go looking for the ring, trying to get it off poor Ringo's finger, and once the Beatles discover this, they begin seeking "enlightenment" from various Ring specialists in the early scenes of the film. When all their early attempts fail, they turn towards two mad scientists, who find themselves wanting the ring also, so the leader (and smarter) of the two, can "rule the world" (You might recognize the lead scientist as the snooty TV excutive from A Hard Day's Night, and the loud-mouth, oddball army general from Magical Mystrey Tour.) So, anyway, the film has lots of really great moments. For example, at an Indian restraunt, the baddies get into the restraut, and knock out all the staff, and dress as waiters. A chef's belongings fall into a bowl of soup. These are: Glasses, and a sports season ticket. When the bad guys bring
the Beatles their soup, Ringo and John both begin to find the "sufff' int her bowls. John pulls out the ticket, and shows it to Ringo, saying: "Whats this?" and Ringo seriously replies, "It's a season ticket, what'd you think it is?" And John says ack: "I rather like seasoning in my soup..." And when a
traitor to the Hindus, wnating to "help!" the Beatles, she come to their pad in London. She pulls out a shot needle, which is meant for Ringo, to make his finger shrink so the ring will fall off, and George, who is sitting next to her, looks, his eyes dilate, and he points at the needle, then faints. These are but two of the zany, hilliarious, funny and smart scenes form the movie. The cast include a Scotland Yard inspector unusually attached to the word famous, The two mad scitntists, Clang, the ldader of the Hindus who claims, "My gosh, they all look the same", a skeptical assistant to Clang, who when they find the ring is missing, suggests "Has no one checked the wash basin?"
and more. I reccomend this to ANYBODY and EVERYBODY. Even if you aren't a Beatles fan, this movie may very well change your mind.

Beatles Rule
I am 27 and from India, i was in my 9th graded when my sister presented me RUBBER SOUL, and from that moment on I have been a beatles fan, Around 10 years back I saw Hard Days Night and I was in love , then i saw HELP and i was BLOWN, the movie is full of humor,energy and lots more, One of my favourite scenes is when they all are in the Loo and the baddy turns on the dryer, the best part of the scene is when Georges shirt gets sucked into the dryer, and RIngo says "Ther is More Here than meets the eyes". It's funny the way he says this.
There are some people whose review i have read says movie is okay, those people must be doped, not to appreciate this movie,
For Gods Sake its THE BEATLES, it dosent get any better than this,KUDOS to the Beatles and their Masterpiece