Beach Blanket Bingo

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Denny S These Beach Party films are really last looks at our pre-Beatle world, where Frankie Avalon would soon be relegated to the fringes and Annette would be doing peanut Butter commercials on TV. But here, oblivious to the changes in the wind, they surf, hang out at the beach, dance in the sand in their bikinis and swimming trunks. It all seems so quaint today. But this specific one in the series is certainly the best of the lot (yah, I know) and the one that I would put in the time capsule. Rated 2.5/5 Stars •  Rated 2.5 out of 5 stars 02/26/24 Full Review dave s Beyond the undeniable chemistry between Annette Funicello and Frankie Avalon, Beach Blanket Bingo doesn't really have much to offer, including anything even closely resembling a plot. There are plenty of bikini-clad girls and muscle-bound guys, not to mention surfing, dancing and singing. Throw in some weak storylines involving kidnapping, skydiving, a mermaid and an up-and-coming pop star and you have Beach Blanket Bingo. The humor fails at every turn, consisting exclusively of slapstick and corny one-liners, none of them even remotely funny. The saddest part of the whole thing is the appearance of Buster Keaton, whose character serves absolutely no purpose, leading one to believe that Keaton was in need of a pay cheque. This is a movie that is so dumb it's exhausting. Rated 1/5 Stars •  Rated 1 out of 5 stars 03/30/23 Full Review Audience Member Did you know you can be full blood family and have completely different reactions to sun and sand? My sister wants to be in summer full-time and is permatan. I look like I haven't taken my iron supplement and consider London summery. While she frolicked outside on the beach during our childhood vacations, I sat inside with her friend who was scared of jellyfish and we would watch these dumb movies on TBS during the hours of 10am-4pm. This is the one case where Hollywood was less poisonous than the sun... "Beach Blanket Bingo" was by far our favorite Frankie and Annette movie to mock, especially regarding Bonehead's relationship with the mermaid Lorelei. There are also great little comedic sketches with Buster Keaton and Don Rickles, as they tended to be in all these movies as bit players. Harvey Lembeck was always wonderful at playing the funny bad guy, since no one is truly bad in these Frankie and Annette films. These movies really have the essence of "The Benny Hill Show" as they are all essentially an old man chasing bikini girls around in circles as "Yakety Sax" plays and it's all happening on a gay man's show*... *Summery=London Rated 5/5 Stars •  Rated 5 out of 5 stars 02/17/23 Full Review Audience Member This movie is typical of the plotless youth movies of the 60's. Unfortunately today's filmgoers have raised the bar on taste and lowered the bar on tolerance for this type of format. Rated 1/5 Stars •  Rated 1 out of 5 stars 02/03/23 Full Review Audience Member These beach movies were not popular with teenagers at the time of their release, but with the passage of time older adults can enjoy this campy, airbrushed, sanitized sandy version of 1965. Annette and Frankie were never big teen idols or hitmakers, both scoring hits in the 1950s and then fading from sight, but they both had larger than life personalities that adults enjoyed as the years went by. Frankie and Annette were a joke to rock and rollers and the radio charts, and the singers promoted in the beach series all failed to spark any interest. William Asher, producer of the series, was best known as Elizabeth Montgomery's husband and helped create the classic TV series "Bewitched". His hand was steadier with the TV series than it was with the beach movies, but this entry is one of the best. Annette and Frankie are cute in their all-WASPish, all heterosexual, all white, artificial beach world that never existed. This was not the real 1965 -- even at the beach -- but that's what movies are intended to do: take us out of reality and into imagination, where we can enjoy 90 minutes of life -- the way it might have been. Rated 2.5/5 Stars •  Rated 2.5 out of 5 stars 01/14/23 Full Review Doug This is just a fun summer movie that takes me back to my youth. Gosh my sister and I pretended we were Frankie and Annette and all the world was good. There are some great personalities appearing in this movie. You will enjoy the antics of Buster Keaton, the toned down quips of Don Tickles and Paul Lynde. It's a fun movie. I hope you enjoy it too! Rated 5/5 Stars •  Rated 5 out of 5 stars 08/06/19 Full Review Read all reviews

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