Cool movie, shame the cover versions suck so badly.

Weird fun and not much else. Stylistically as Russel as it gets. The continuous run of musical score gets suffocating after a while. Oliver Reed shines.

Completely bonkers in all the right ways. Shame it goes off the rails after a while.

Ridiculously bad

The Who is one of my all-time favorite bands, but this film is way too out of control and flamboyant for me. Also, I have a hard time trying to figure out just what kind of message or criticism they're trying to envoke.

What is it Roger Daltrey, are you deaf, dumb, and blind, or can you see for miles? Jeeze, make up your mind!

While there's no denying that Ken Russel knows how to orchestrate these kind of popular operas, I found this one to kind of loose some of it's steam towards the end. Still: I have a soft spot for Ann Margret and seeing her mud wrestling 400 pounds of baked beans...I don't know how to end that sentence.

Poorly done adaptation of one of my favorite albums. The only saving grace is the fact that The Who is in it.

The filmmaker throws everything he can at the screen. Some of it sticks.

An hour after the movie began, I quit. An hour after the top. Saddly enough, the pick of the film was the expectation to see it. But it is no match to the classic record. The movie is a complete disaster, incredibly boring and slow, nothing you'd expect the who to be in. Not even the glam king Elton John maneged to save it.

Much like most of the individual scenes, the movie itself doesn't really go anyway.

Almost as garish and campy a mindfuck as The Apple but underneath that actually really, really well directed. Russell here actually reminds me a lot of Roeg (if even more extravagant), and this really makes me want to watch more of his work. I'm sure i'd find him even more impressive given more to work with than the pretentious, cheesy songs by The Who. Even so, if nothing else this film gives me a greater appreciation of Velvet Goldmine, which i now can see was an obvious Russell homage.

Excellent music(and some cameos!), but poor movie.

On the big screen, it was fantastic.

Take out the religious themes and this is just about my favorite movie. The problem is there's so much of it, just about every bit of the last act, and it's eye-rollingly overdone in a way that I can't find any sort of interest or value in.

if you ever want to see the musical on stage, DON'T see this movie - it will ruin it

Outstanding and outrageous adaptation of the famed Who rock opera. Only Ken Russell could have made this come off so well

Great soundtrack.

Great music, average movie.