In this surrealistic and free-form follow-up to the Monkees' television show, the band frolic their way through a series of musical set pieces and vignettes containing humor and anti-establishment social commentary.
The movie is, nonetheless, of a certain fascination in its joining of two styles: pot and advertising.
– Renata Adler,
New York Times,
21 May 2005
fresh:
Despite obviously dated aspects like clumsy psychedelic effects and some turgid slapstick sequences, the film is still remarkably vital and entertaining.
– Derek Adams,
Time Out,
9 Feb 2006
rotten:
The clean-cut kids and the created kinetics work up a 'so-what' reaction too soon in the 85-minute stretch seques from war to westerns to desert chases to mad scientist brushes in the Columbia lot.