Daydream Believers: The Monkees' Story
Daydream Believers: The Monkees' Story

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In 1966, producers Bert Schneider and Bob Rafaelson come up with the idea of creating a TV show that would feature the American answer to the Beatles, The Monkees. Eventually, four young men are chosen for the roles, Mickey Dolenz the former child TV star, the stage actor Davey Jones and the musicians, Mike Nesmith and Peter Tork. With the aid of a successful music producer and able TV promotion, the Monkees become a sensation. However, that success is tainted, to the chagrin... (Full plot summary below)

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Actors in Daydream Believers: The Monkees' Story:

George Stanchev
L.B. Fisher
Jeff Geddis
Aaron Lohr
Colin Ferguson
Wallace Langham

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In 1966, producers Bert Schneider and Bob Rafaelson come up with the idea of creating a TV show that would feature the American answer to the Beatles, The Monkees. Eventually, four young men are chosen for the roles, Mickey Dolenz the former child TV star, the stage actor Davey Jones and the musicians, Mike Nesmith and Peter Tork. With the aid of a successful music producer and able TV promotion, the Monkees become a sensation. However, that success is tainted, to the chagrin of the band, as they find themselves labeled as talentless phonies. This film covers the band's frustrating struggle to prove their detractors wrong as they struggle to earn some artist legitimacy. Whether it's by learning to excel as a band or experimenting with wild ideas for their show and film, Head, nothing seems to work. Meanwhile the band have their internal tensions as various members struggle to decide what is really important to them, simple material success, or having real artistic respect for their work?

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User Review - 10/10 by Robert MGood 90 minute retelling of The Monkees struggle to be taken seriously. great casting of Monkees lookalikes that effectively recreated the pre-fab four's speech and mannerisms. Very detailed reshooting of classic scenes from the original TV shows. A few factual errors but nothing that can't be forgiven when considering this is a "Hollywood" style movie and not a fact-focused documentary. Excellent movie for a new Monkees fan and nice nostalgia for those who loved it.
User Review - 8/10 by John YReally good film about the goings on behind the scene about one of the greatest bands of all time.
User Review - 8/10 by Cynthia SI was a giant fan of The Monkees when I was a kid, so this movie was very close to my heart. I thought that they did a great job finding four guys who resembled them so well. This movie had a really good balance between the whimsical side of the group we know from the TV show, and the behind the scene struggles concerning creative control over their music. I felt like I was really watching the Monkees in concert whenever they hit the stage, because I was sooo enjoying hearing the songs again. I loved the feel-good ending too, which made their roller coaster ride of a journey pay off with honest sentiment. Very decent job done here, in my opinion.
User Review - 6/10 by Richard HMany bio-pics have an unusual fall-off point for viewer satisfaction depending on how big a fan of the subject the viewer is. A moderate fan can accept historical inacuracies or dramatic licence without even noticing, but a devouted fan will bristle at ever departure from real history. That's my problem with Daydream Believer. It does a good job taking the truly dramatic and twist-filled saga of The Monkees and condencing it into a standard formula flick, that formula is astoundingly different from reality on many occasions. Some of these discrepencies are nitpicky little things (like Mockey going to the public Monkees try outs when he actually had a private audition) but the oh-so-fake happy ending is far too much to forgive. Still, the cast does a good job capturing the spirit of the real Monkees, and the soundtrack is an obvious winner. There are much better sources to go to if you want the real story of The Monkees, but as pure entertainment, Daydream Believer is okay.
User Review - 6/10 by Marilee AIt is ok. The guy who plays Micky looks like Bam Margera.
User Review - 6/10 by Joshua LI love the monkees!! movie not bad at all for a tv film.
User Review - 6/10 by Catherine SDaydream Believers: The Monkees Story gave me more than I expected, but then again I wasn't expecting much in the first place. It's a fairly shallow experience that doesn't give you too much new on the background of the Monkees television show, but what it does do it does well. Luckily. Daydream Believers is the reanactment of the story of the Monkees, starting with the creation of the television show to the breakout success of the show and the start of Monkeemania and ending at their inevitable downfall after the release of their only big screen outing "Head". Really, that's it. The unfortunate part of this reinterpretation is the lack of new information. In a movie like this, I'm looking for new facts that I didn't know before heading into the movie. The problem was I left only shaking my head because of the sugarcoated nature of the film. We never get a true look into the members' relationships with each other and any arguements that occur are quickly mended and forgotten, so somehow there's no character development in characters based off of real people. The character that receives, in my opinion, the most character development is probably Peter and Mike who seem to gain the most attention in this movie, but it's minimal. The extreme contrast of the actors speaking voices and the dubbed over singing borders on the Beatles Cartoon show levels, being to the point of laughability. However, the one praise I can lend to this movie is the casting. The actors they picked to play the Monkees do their job very well and while are not perfect, they resemble their real life counterparts. As well as they do perfect the one thing that a movie with the Monkees' antics in it needs: Hilarity. I had just as much fun if not more fun watching these four romp around and act silly as I did watching the original television show. Yeah, I said it. While I had fun watching it, I still ended the film feeling melancholy. Maybe it's because of the sugarcoated ending that made the whole history of the Monkees seem so happy and pleasant or maybe the still lingering memory of Davy Jones' death three months ago. I don't know. Either way, if you're a Monkees fan like I am, you may enjoy this. Those looking to get into the Monkees shouldn't use this as their first impression. Watch the real Monkees television show, or better yet listen to their music. (Real Rating: 62%)
User Review - 6/10 by Carlos DSome of the facts were a little off,but the acting was credible and the beatles were amazing!
User Review - 6/10 by Michael HYet more overdramatic storytelling about the life of a band. Only this time it focuses on the monkees. The Monkees has been one of my favorite shows since I first watched it in November of 2012. Mickey, Davy, Michael and Peter all came into my heart and their music was phenomenal. Their first two albums which they only sang on were big hits, but Headquarters was the big deal because thats the first album they played their instruments on. They stopped making albums in the 70's until their two final albums Pool It and Justus which were Reunion albums. They did a few specials and they kept touring and they still continue to do so after Jones died. But enough history lessons for today. I want to talk about Daydream Believers. A Overly Produced Hollywood Tv Movie that is barely accurate. But, on a brighter note, its fun fluff. The story follows the struggilings of the band The Monkees who are Mickey, Davy, Peter and Michael. They want to play their own music but their hopes of being real musicians are not working out until a miracle happens. But they still suffer from the creative control and bad album sales. This movie has the most stunningly overdone acting. The acting is just too much to handle. This might be what the director thought he was going for, the acting. But its not all about the acting. Its also about character and story. The movie is innaccurate because we see many scenes where historical accuracy doesn't exsist. The movie's actors were not bad and chosen well. The movie's ending is sort of more hollywood-esque because it ends like any regular musical. Which is fine, but the problem is this is a biography. Not a musical. Daydream Believers is for the fans. 72/100 B-
User Review - 6/10 by Tracy FSo so but I was never a fan. Showed a different side though.

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