Back to the Beach

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Summary: FANS: REQUEST THIS DVD EXTRA...
Review: 3 stars if they don't put this extra on, and 5 stars if they do.
This is a great movie. But my favorite song "We'll Go On Forever," performed at the end, was never released on the soundtrack. There will probably never be a new soundtrack, so please request that they give us this song as a bonus audio track in its full form. In the film, the song is interrupted by dialogue, so Paramount just needs to obtain the original song in its complete form. They could also add "Pajama Party Tonight," which also was not on the soundtrack.

"Do you worry 'bout tomorrow? Will it be as good as yesterday? I just look in your direction, and then I'm glad for what we have today. What I like about a love song is that you never can wear it out. You and I are like a love song- in the end, we always work it out..."

Rating:
Summary: FANS: REQUEST THIS DVD EXTRA...
Review: 3 stars if they don't put this extra on, and 5 stars if they do.
This is a great movie. But my favorite song "We'll Go On Forever," performed at the end, was never released on the soundtrack. There will probably never be a new soundtrack, so please request that they give us this song as a bonus audio track in its full form. In the film, the song is interrupted by dialogue, so Paramount just needs to obtain the original song in its complete form. They could also add "Pajama Party Tonight," which also was not on the soundtrack.

"Do you worry 'bout tomorrow? Will it be as good as yesterday? I just look in your direction, and then I'm glad for what we have today. What I like about a love song is that you never can wear it out. You and I are like a love song- in the end, we always work it out..."

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Summary: a great new chapter in the BEACH PARTY story!
Review: Annette Funicello and Frankie Avalon return to the beach, older and wiser, to relive the frothy beach movies that made them famous, in BACK TO THE BEACH.

This time, they're bringing their kids along! Bratty Bobby (Demian Slade) and sweet Sandi (Lori Loughlin) have no idea of how hip and happening their parents were in the sunny Sixties.

Funicello and Avalon are in top form, not afraid to poke fun of themselves, while the whole experience is a trip through nostalgia.

Annette brings the house down with "Jamaica Ska", while Pee Wee Herman (Paul Reubens) gives a comedic rendition of "The Bird".

Sadly, the last film made by Funicello, before being diagnosed with multiple sclerosis. Funicello did not go public with the news until 1990.

Still, buy BACK TO THE BEACH, a wildly hilarious commentary by the younger generation on the baby boomers.

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Summary: A wonderful parody of 60's beach movies. Great fun!
Review: For anyone who has sat through the mindless Frankie and Annette beach movies this is a real treat! In retrospect, the original movies are fun time capsules of the early sixties and this film trashes them all. Frankie and Annette are back as a married couple with children returning to their old beach for a vacation. The plot is the same lame one used in every beach movie (surfers vs. punks, jealous girlfriends, boy loses girl, boy gets girl, etc...) and there are numerous cameos throughout the film (Alan Hale, Bob Denver, the Cleavers, Peewee Herman, and many others). Connie Stevens is Great, and everyone looks like they had a blast making this film. Anyone who has any love for the old beach movies will really enjoy the self-parody of "Back to the Beach".

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Summary: Wipe Out!
Review: Frankie and Annette reunite one last time, playing the roles that made them most famous. This time around they play a middle-aged, married couple with a son and daughter. Their son is an obnoxious punk, who looks and acts like the illegitimate love child of Eric Von Zipper! Their daughter is living in sin with a man she's not married to! I'm sorry to say, the innocent fun of the sixties is lost in the eighties. The only other character from the earlier movies to make an appearance is Dick Dale. It was great to see Dick Dale play guitar again, although his eighties' hair style looked ridiculous. His duet with Stevie Ray Vaughan on "Pipeline" was one of the highlights of this film, along with Pee-wee Herman's performance of "Surfin' Bird." This movie proves that you can go home again, but you maybe you shouldn't go back to the beach!

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Summary: For those who hated beach movies, I loved this one
Review: I absolutely refused to watch this movie in the theatres, or on video. A friend asked if I had seen it and I responded 'I hated the beach movies." He responded, "so did the people who made this movie, you'll enjoy it." I watched it, I loved it, I still love it! It's sarcastic, which I believe, is why a lot of people don't "get it." Great sarcasm, great cast (who better to make fun of themselves?) and great Frankie Avalon and Dick Dale surf music. Everything that was great about the surf movies (music)and everything that was terrible, made with fun.

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Summary: Ska, ska, ska
Review: I grew up watching this movie. I looked forward to watching it each summer. BACK TO THE BEACH pokes fun at it's two lead stars - Frankie Avalon and Annette Funicello (who produced this film). This is part of the hilarity of this film. It spoofs the beach films for which the stars are famous for. This would be Annette Funicello's last theatrical release before her multiples sclurosis sets in. She has the greater parts in this movie. One highlight in the song "Jamaica Ska" for which she sings and dances. What you have to remember is that all the cheesy dialogue and lame jokes are intentional. Remember this and the movie will put a stitch in your side from laughing so much. So in the spirit of this movie I'll say - Dude, you totally gotta see this rituous movie.

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Summary: Wonderful, innocent fun
Review: I love this movie. I wasn't even born when most of the originally beach movies were made. I found this gem when it became available for rental. I loved it. I loved the music and the feel of the movie. I laughed and laughed. Just a really feel good movie. It's not Shakespear, but I loved it.

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Summary: Pajama Party
Review: I love this movie. I have since I was a liitle girl. I watched it at every slumber party. I love it. do you worry about tomorrow> Will it be as good as yesterday? I just look in your direction. And I'm glad for what we have today.

Don't listen to people who say it is corny. It is a great movie. I love the cast everyone is great.

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Summary: Entertaining, hilarious & more!
Review: I used to watch this movie on tv quite a bit, and it always cracked me up! I've never been a huge Frankie and Annette fan (they were before my time), but in this movie I really liked them as the parents! It begins when Frankie and Annette go to visit their daughter (who's boyfriend is living with her), taking along their son (who is more or less, rebelling and having an identity crisis). Songs are interspersed through the film, which are funny and entertaining; there is a cameo by Pee Wee Herman, and much more!

Pajama parties, surfing, motorcycles, beach bon-fires, etc., this film is full of moments of randomness and light-hearted fun, with couples "fighting" and making up all over the place!

For those of you worried about content: this film is somewhat family-friendly. There isn't much language in this film, the content is more some drinking in a bar/lounge, a married woman flirting, a woman flirting with a married man, a girl with a live-in boyfriend, hangovers, etc. In typical "Disney" style, they wrap up all the loose ends and end the film on a syrupy, happy note!

If you like the beach, and aren't afraid of a little singing, I'd pick this up to watch one day, if just for a temporary diversion from the same old movies that are always on...