Cebalord Very best movie i ever watch

BootDigest Such a frustrating disappointment

SanEat A film with more than the usual spoiler issues. Talking about it in any detail feels akin to handing you a gift-wrapped present and saying, "I hope you like it -- It's a thriller about a diabolical secret experiment."

Verity Robins Great movie. Not sure what people expected but I found it highly entertaining.

masercot Definitely the best of the sixty's beach movies. Not because of the plot, which asymptotically approaches stupid before crossing right over it. Or, the music, which is banality incarnate. It is the cast...Don Rickles, Paul Lynde, Linda Evans and Deborah Walley were all frequent visitors to the teen romp genre. It is comforting to see them all in the same movie. Paul Lynde is just as nasty as usual. Rickles manages to go off script and insult cast members for a while. Linda Evans just stands around looking beautiful; and, Deborah Walley...too seldom seen...But, what makes this movie a hoot for me is seeing Buster Keaton, still working in the sixties...doing the pratfalls and the stone-face he was known for. I love watching the man work.And, the woman playing Keaton's sidekick is about as close to a perfect hour-glass figure as one can get without a corset and a lot of work.If you only see on Frankie and Annette beach movie, make it this one. Remember though: I said 'IF'...

keesha45 While it's been years since I've seen many of the films from this beach party genre and I only caught part of it in a recent TCM airing, I saw enough to be favorably impressed and to give it an unqualified thumbs up. The scenes with Buster Keaton were really stupendous and it was great to see him in several scenes and not just a one-shot cameo. The Don Rickles insult bit in his club was priceless, the singing wasn't outstanding but wasn't bad either, and the slapstick was a nice throwback to the old Mack Sennett comedies that you scarcely see today. Frankie and Annette made seven beach party flicks together not counting an NBC pilot which aired in 1978. Their last teaming in 1987 was more of a nostalgia trip than a real story and they played different characters than they had in the American International studio's series they made in the 1960's. They appeared in six films in the 60's, with just one (1964's PAJAMA PARTY) wherein they played characters different from their better known five-film series with the Von Zipper gang,Deadhead, etc., for AIP. As such, this series continued a great tradition of movies with continuing settings and stock characters, that hearken back to the good old days of Andy Hardy, Dr. Kildare, the Thin Man and Tarzan. Even more recent times has seen the trend of continuing characters in familiar settings going forward in the James Bond, Rocky, and Batman stories, just to name a few, besides lesser vehicles like the National Lampoon and Police Academy series in the 80's and 90's. In Hollywood, nothing succeeds like success, so the sequel will always be with us and some will go on and on. It will be interesting to see if the new Nancy Drew film will spawn a series of sequels as it did two generations ago. If it's successful the first time around, don't bet against it. Dale Roloff

DKosty123 Elwood Von Zipper is the most amazing character ever created for a beach movie. Part Brando & part Nerdo, creating this guy for a beach movie creates a natural void in the sand dunes. Throw in Frankie & Annette & you have mostly meaningless fluff.What makes this rank above some of the other of its genre is that William Asher & the Bewitched production company did it on summer vacation. So this is what they did on summer vacation from twitching? While it is not as meaningful as other summer vacation movies made by TV production teams, it has a lot of good music from the era & a meaningless plot to go by.Show this to the kiddies now, & it looks like art next to the Teenage Ninja Turtles movie, but this was supposed to be for teens, where the turtles are for well, turtles. Actually Elwood could be who Henry Winkler molded the Fonze after on Happy Days. Thank goodness they weren't putting Cunninghams Hardware store on this beach. With Linda Evans, Deborah Walley & Marta Kristen in bikinis, Annette is just an extra body in this one

JasparLamarCrabb BEACH BLANKET BINGO is woeful from beginning to end! This idiotic junk has the beach party gang involved in skydiving AND kidnapping with neither plot-thread even remotely bearable. The opening musical number features a typical non-song lip-synched by Frankie Avalon and Annette Funicello, both of whom had to be sick to death of these movies by 1965. Avalon is particularly annoying bickering with Paul Lynde, who plays the proverbial adult "square." The final chase scene, shot in fast motion as if the filmmakers wanted to stop this nonsense as quickly as possible, is moronic. With the usual assortment of Z-grade talent: Harvey Lembeck, Deborah Walley, Jody McCrae and, in one of his last and most thankless appearances, Buster Keaton.