Beach Blanket Bingo (1965)

The Worst Film Ever

Lack of good storyline.

An action-packed slog

It's not great by any means, but it's a pretty good movie that didn't leave me filled with regret for investing time in it.

Awful, terrible, stupid, insulting, this is a triple play movie" DUMB,DUMBER,AND DUMBEST. And the award goes to writer, producer,director and all the cast Please do not insult the intelligence or lack of intelligence of the public. Anyone who suffers from post traumatic stress should not watch this movie. anyone who has lost their sense of taste ,smell, sight,or hearing should not watch this movie. it could be fatal lol I lost my sense of taste by watching this stupid "movie" really bimbo's on the beach . Doing what? bimbo watching ? Its not even fun to make fun of."a Beach mermaid, skydiving,biker gangs. This was Hollywood at its dumbest. I would rather watch a state execution then to sit thru this. If I was one of the "actors" in this "movie" I would jump off a bridge. It could win an award for the worst movie ever made. They made four or five movies I believe,I lost count after Beach Blanket Bimbo 2,3,4,5.Frankie Avalon must have been desperate when he asked him to star in this movie.He was a "B" list actor, never a great singer. Annette Funicello could sing and I can not be cruel to her. but the rest of the cast,Paul Linde,Don Rickles,Buster Keaton. and the Von Zipper's Biker gang should get an honorable mention. They are awful. I would prefer to watch Ed Wood's Plan 9 from planet X then watch Beach Blanket Bimbo movies. award goes to William Asher for writing and directing this piece of xxxx

No one expects A Streetcar Named Desire (1951) from Frankie and Annette. So anyone catching this celebration of carefree hedonism should know what they're getting from the git-go. All in all, the movie's a time capsule of those pre-Vietnam years when jobs were plentiful, prosperity was on the rise, and the only thing white middle-class teens worried about was a date to the prom. The movie perfectly captures the silly innocence of those teen years. And what better place to celebrate than the land of eternal sunshine and surf: Malibu, California.But watch out for Timothy Carey's grotesque South Dakota Slim. In retrospect, he's like a forewarning of the Vietnam-Watergate calamities to come— a menacing figure crashing the beach party's beautiful bodies. It was an inspired piece of casting and happenstance. Now, I'm not about to mock the movie's silliness since my own preference runs toward The Three Stooges. At the same time, it looks to this drop-in like the film's probably as good as any of the Beach Party bashes of that long ago sunny era. For many, the movie's got to be a trip down carefree nostalgia lane.

1st watched 7/30/2006 - 3 out of 10(Dir-William Asher): Silly harmless fluff of a movie with sweethearts Frankie(Frankie Avalon) & Didi(Annette Funicello) and their goofy adventures on the beach with their pals & gals. After the silly title song, the movie starts out being about a new singer promoting an album to the beach-nuts with a faked freefall from an airplane. The do-anything promoter is played by Paul Lynde with his usual sleezeball-style and the singer is a young Linda Evans. Everyone including the before-mentioned couple now wants to skydive and they hook-up with Don Rickles as the head of the skydiving company. Rickles is even able to throw in a mini-standup routine where he puts down everyone in the audience, as is his usual shtick. In a sidestory, the character Bonehead encounters a mermaid which brings a little variety and fun to the storyline. I hate to say it, but that's about it for this movie in a nutshell. A few songs are thrown-in(some better than others), plenty of booty-shaking, and a silent episode with Buster Keaton(playing a kind of Benny Hill-like character) adds to the light-hearted fare. If this is all that you're looking for in a movie, then this one is the perfect movie for you!! Otherwise, stay away.

It is truly one of the best movies out there, no doubt! The music is great, it's HILARIOUSLY funny, it's perfect for the entire family to enjoy, and the characters are wonderful!!! Annette Funicello and Frankie Avalon make such a cute couple; Donna Loren once again nails it at her wonderful singing; Paul Lynde and Don Rickles are funny as always; Jody McCrea and Marta Kristen's mermaid-human relationship is beautiful; John Ashley and Deborah Walley's skydiving bag is out of sight; Harvey Lembeck does the hilarious Von Zipper antics once again; and what a great almost-final acting job for Buster Keaton before he died (even though it wasn't a big role)! If you're looking for a lot of fun, romance, comedy, drama, adventure, and more...this is the movie for you! It has everything!!! Look out Hot-Doggers and Beach Bunnies...this movie's a knockout!!!