Shag

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Summary: GRITS
Review: This movie has got to be the best movie (along with Gone With the Wind) ever! I have actually worn out my VHS tape because my girlfriends and I (all from South Carolina) get together to watch it at least once a week! I went to Senior Week (as Sun Fun weekend is known to graduating seniors from SC) four years ago, as did every graduating senior in SC, as did our parents before us. My mom loves to watch it because it reminds her of her Senior Week (in 1963)! Those who don't like it, are usually guys or those who don't know what shagging is or how to do it (people not from SC or the South, basically). So give it a chance, don't just rent it, you have to buy it!

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Summary: Order a Pizza, grab some Coca Colas and watch this one!!!
Review: This movie is so much fun! I have a copy of my own, and one to borrow to my friends, since it takes too long to explain everything I love about this "feel-good take me back to the early 1960's teenage way of life" movie, before Viet Nam and before President Kennedy was killed. It's like Mystic Pizza, Ferris Bueller, Animal House and Dirty Dancing all rolled into one. And wait'll you see Tyrone Power, Jr. as Harley in the movie! The cast is wonderful, the cars are cool, the dancing is out of this world, and the script writers have captured the way teens communicated. It's both hokey at times and laugh out loud funny, too. You'll find yourself rooting for darling Pudge in the dance contest and wanting to learn the Shag. "It's the most fun!"

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Summary: Y-E-L-L-O-W. You will marry Bullwinkle and have 5 kids
Review: What a brilliant movie, with the exception of the end where the girls sing together on the porchsteps of the sentator's summer home in Myrtle Beach. That little Dirty Dancing ripoff was really, really lame. But the rest of the movie was great! Robert Rustler, who didn't act in a billion other movies like I thought he would, gave the performance of his lifetime. Tyrone Power Jr looks like his daddy. You already know Phoebe Cates, Bridget Fonda, and Annabeth Gish. Great eye candy for a really, really fun movie. It's a beach movie without the stupidity.

I've probably watched this movie 50 times. Nothing like watching a summer vacation in Myrtle Beach to put you in a good mood. Hanging out at the Grand Strand...shaggin' and drinking bevos (oddly enough, a bevo was a non-alcoholic beverage in prohibition days...a fact that has nothing to do with this review)...that's the life!

Shag has great music, fun dialogue, famous speeches, some hot shaggin', Elvis impersonators, and great party scenes that make the movie flow really fast while a smile is on your face the entire time.

For the DVD, I didn't think the sound quality was very good. I have 50's movies that had better sound. I own Annette Funicello's Pajama Party on DVD. It has MUCH better sound. So that was disappointing, especially considering there's music throughout the entire movie. But even though the sound is a little disappointing and there's no special features in this movie (aside from a trailer), this movie is still one you should own.

After about 50 views, I finally picked up on something that I thought I'd share, since I feel a warm sense of accomplishment.

In the car ride, Melaina was giving Caroline (Pudge) her fortune. Caroline picked yellow. No idea why, since she wore a blue dress at the end of the movie. Anyway, she picked Yellow, and the fortune was: You will marry Bullwinkle and raise 5 kids (or however many kids; that's unimportant). Fast forward to the party scene...underneath the table that had booze sprinking off the tablecloth. Chip (her love interest in the movie) does a Bullwinkle impression! He blows Pudge away with it! From that point, it becomes a standing joke. HER FORTUNE WAS PROBABLY CORRECT! Isn't that something? Watch it again. Dance with it. Tie nylons to a bedpost and shag with yourself. It deserves the 5 stars I gave it for fun, nostalgia, music, and girls. It's the most fun!

Don't get caught with your rooster showing. Buy the movie!

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Summary: best dance movie
Review: when i was little, my sister showed me SHAG and GIRLS JUST WANNA HAVE FUN, both on the same night..at age 10, i chose GIRLS JUST WANNA HAVE FUN as the better of the two...
not until recently did i fall in love with SHAG!!!! i suppose i didn't understand much of the movie at age 10 and therefore chose GIRLS JUST WANNA HAVE FUN over it!!! at 17 yeaars old, i LOVE SHAG,,,the characters are great, the plot is interesting (4 teens go away, unchaperoned, to a beach, to parties, to dances)and the dancing is sheer beauty!!! SHAG is a classic, and a personal favorite!!!