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Summary: actually more enjoyable than the ORIGINAL "Beach Party"!
Review: BEACH BLANKET BINGO is considered by many as their favorite "Beach Party" movie. In order, my three favorites are BEACH BLANKET BINGO, PAJAMA PARTY and BEACH PARTY.In this sequel, Dee Dee (Annette Funicello) and Frankie (Frankie Avalon) decide to take skydiving lessons from the hard-nosed pilot John Ashley and the late Deborah Walley. Things get complicated when up-and-coming pop singer Sugar Kane (Linda Evans) ends up in Frankie's arms - literally - and the ... Deborah decides to make Frankie an afterschool sweetheart! Dumb-as-stumps Deadhead (Jody McCrea) falls in love with an elusive mermaid (Marta Kristen) and the always-annoying Eric Von Zipper (Harvey Lembeck) and his "Rats" show up to kidnap the lovely Sugar Kane... Featuring a memorable title song as well as great musical turns by Frankie Avalon, Annette Funicello and Donna Loren. There are also great cameo roles from Earl Wilson, Don Rickles, Paul Lynde, Buster Keaton and Bobbi Shaw (reprising her role as Keaton's dizzy sidekick). The DVD includes the trailer. (Single-sided, single-layer disc).
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Summary: The Best Of The Beach
Review: Beach Blanket Bingo is the best of AIP's Beach Party films. Unlike the other films in the series, there are actual attempts at some clever tongue and cheek writing here, Annette finally displays some of here phenomenal body, Frankie actually has a tan, and the supporting cast is much better this time around. Here we have Harvey Lembeck as Erick Von Zipper (what a great character!), Linda Evans, Marta Kristen, John Ashley, Buster Keaton, Don Rickles and the great, demented, Timothy Carey. Director William Asher had Roger Corman's Poe movie cinematographer Floyd Crosby on this film, making it the best looking of the series. The color is rich, the compositions dynamic and the camera more mobile than usual, giving the film a greater sense of excitement. Finally, series composer Les Baxter also had a bigger hand in writing and arranging the songs this time around, and they are much better than usual for this series -- the title tune is a standout. If you have a taste for American-International's Beach Party pictures, this is the best, and if you've never seen one before, this is the one to start with... Loads of fun!
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Summary: a masterpiece of silly fun
Review: I want to slap Frankie Avalon silly and Annette seems like a very attractive stuffed chair. But I really, really like this move. Young Linda Evans is a slice of female heaven, Harvey Lembeck is always good no matter how lousy the Beach Party movies are, but the crowning glory is Timothy Carey as the zonked out ultra hipster South Dakota Slim, a pool playing biker sadist kidnapper tapdancer who is basically a nice guy. He has been my hero ever since I saw this movie. Lots of good dancing and music, too. I must also praise Jody McCrea as Deadhead and his lovely mermaid girlfriend. Highly recommended from a guy who really knows movies.
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Summary: Frankie Avalon's Best Movie
Review: A Good movie and the Best scenes are Frankie Avalon singing the theme song and the romantic song "These Are The Good Times" in the movie a song he later sang in a episode of "The Patty Duke Show".
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Summary: Frankie Avalon's Best Movie
Review: A Good movie and the Best scenes are Frankie Avalon singing the theme song and the romantic song "These Are The Good Times" in the movie a song he later sang in a episode of "The Patty Duke Show".
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Summary: Fun in the Sun - 60's Style
Review: It's clear to see why "Beach BLanket Bingo" might've been a hit among the teens of the day. It's zesty, frothy and fun, and keeps a beat going musically. One of the biggest highlights is the beautiful Donna Loren singing "It Only Hurts When I Cry." She was a talent on the line of Dusty Springfield if ever there was one, and why she didn't become bigger (or remain known today) as a singing star is mystifying. Apparently she wasn't well managed and the proper due wasn't given to her recordings, but she certainly had star material and the pipes. It's also fun to see a very young Linda Evans, looking as if the false eyelashes are a little too much for those baby blues, and Marta Krystal (I believe is her name), an actress who starred as "Judy" on "Lost in Space," playing a mermaid. The thing that drags the whole thing down from sheer stupidity in my opinion is Harvey Lembeck as "Eric Von Zipper," doing a Brando take-off with annoyingly dumb and adolescent wit. Whenever he and his "rat pack" are on the screen, I fast forward, although evidently he was somewhat of a hit because this character appeared in several "beach" films. I always enjoyed the way that slapstick 60's flicks would feature older stars like, in this case, Buster Keaton, giving this older legends their due and a chance to appear among the popular young stars. The guest star appearances are fun. As for Annette and Frankie, that crooning Italian duo -- Frankie Avalon was one of those baby-faced, handsome, smooth-voiced singers that came out of Philadelphia, so I'm sure he was a heart throb at the time, and he was cute with Annette. Their on-screen relationship was sweet and light. Annette Funicello was really a gorgeous girl and such a likeable personality on film. Her popularity was well-deserved, because along with being a knockout and having a pleasant if not outstanding voice, she was just a fun and super nice human being. No one who worked with her ever has anything bad to say about her and that's certainly refreshing. Another fun star of that period was the pretty Deborah Walley. She did her own surfing in the films and she also played in a Gidget movie. In sum, you can't go wrong with this trip into the beach flicks of the 60's. They're a light way to pass the time and a window into the period. Dig the dancing! (I think people are actually doing the "Frug!")
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Summary: this is fun stuff
Review: every one that i know that has watched these films, saw them in the drive in during the 60s. this movie beach blanket bingo is the film being watched by drive in crowd at the start of the outsiders movie with matt dillion.
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Summary: Greatest one of them all
Review: Any movie that the Gorgeous Annette Funicello made is great, but I think Beach Blanket Bingo is the greatest becasue it has more fun, more songs, especially I'll Never Change Him(not on the video) and Annette as usual looks great... she is just Gorgeous and a wonderful actress and singer. Vince
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Summary: FRANKEI & ANNETTE TRILOGY
Review: "Beach Blanket Bingo," "Bikini Beach" and "Beach Party." Most people when asked to name a beach movie, immediately refer to this Frankie Avalon and Annette Funicello '60s trilogy ( I don't include the affshoot "Muscle Beach" flick as part of this authentic ouvre). In 1963's "Beach Party" Annette went by the name Doris (an homage to Doris Day?). The plots, I use the term loosely, were almost interchangeable -- mostly surf, sand, rock 'n roll and sex -- well, mostly innicent tease really. What's most remembered is the hope -- false as it turned out -- that the voluptuous Annette would reveal a tad more skin. And then there's Bob Cummongs in a patently false beard, Harvey Lembeck as the hyper and astonishingly old juvenile delinquent Eric Von Zipper. And of course the tassled Candy Johnson shaking her bikini'd booty over, or is it under, the credits. In "Bikini Beach" Annette is now Dee Dee (must be an homage to Sandra Dee) and Frankie stretches his chops by playing two roles. He is his standard sex-crazed surfer guy and also the gap toothed (a nod toward Terry Thomas?) Brit singer potato Bug -- apparently a spoof on the Beatles (remember, this is 1964). A drag race is part of the action and there's an ape that surfs. "Beach Blanket Bingo" what a great title) is probably the best of the bunch. The dialogue is almost witty. And of course there's the great stone faced silent clown Buster keaton doing his timeless bits of busines. (A burned out alcoholic's sad, haunting and poignant farewell to the genius of his youth.) Don Rickles gets a major break with a part that sealed his antagonistic comic persona. Annette show a little more flesh and Frankie has a tan. The rear projection surf shots are still laughable but the over-all photography is much better. Les Baxter's score is full of energy and the title tune is actually memorable and fun.
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Summary: One of the Best Beach movies Annette Funicello has done
Review: First of all I liked all the Beach movies, but I have to say "Beach Blanket Bingo" was one of my favorites. As always Ms.Funicello did a fantastic job. She is beautiful, talented and I love her singing. I especially liked her singing I"LL NEVER CHANGE HIM" why she never recorded it is beyond me, someone out there should get a copy of her singing it and put it on an Annette CD.I am 59 years old and have been a fan of hers fo the past 46 years and I still enjoy seeing it. I must have bought 6 copies over the years, they wore out,I never get tired watching it. If anyone wishes to give me feedback on it e-mail me at .......
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