jrusso45-290-427700 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

bkoganbing The gang at the beach led by Frankie Avalon and Annette Funicello get themselves innocently involved in a publicity stunt staged by Paul Lynde. Lynde hires Deborah Walley who is a professional skydiver to fall from the air and then has his client, singer Linda Evans in the same outfit be rescued by one of the beach kids. Which of course turns out to be Avalon. The budding relationship between Evans and Avalon of course arouses the jealousy in Annette. Their pal Jody McCrea who plays Deadhead and as you can imagine not the sharpest knife in the drawer or riding the waves gets a romance with Mermaid Marta Kristen in this one.Beach Blanket Bingo is not all that bad. Frankie Avalon was a teen idol who could actually sing as his career which is still going shows. The songs aren't bad for the type usually featured in these films.But what makes Beach Blanket Bingo a treat is seeing such fine performers as Paul Lynde, Buster Keaton, Timothy Carey, and most of all Harvey Lembeck in his usual role of Erich Von Zipper leader of the most inept motorcycle gang around until John Quade took that title in Every Which Way But Loose. When Lembeck decides that Evans ought to be the gang pinup girl it's the beach kids versus the motorcycle crew.And Frankie and Annette make a lovely couple once again.

Lhartman6 The best part of about this movie is trying to spot the extras- surf legend cum American Icon Miki Dora does the surf stunts and stunt doubles for Frankie Avalon. Odd because these movies put an end to his dominance of the Malibu surf as hordes of surfer wannabes flooded to the beach, inspired, in large part, by these movies. Another extra is Beach Boy supreme, Brian Wilson. Another oddity because the movie plugs the contrived band, the Hondells, while Wilson, hot off the number one song in the world in I Get Around and charting high with Help Me Rhonda, mulls in the background in crowd scenes. The non-casted girl extras were, in fact, the real surfer girls who roamed the SoCal beach scene at the time- including the original and "real" Gidget- and were featured more prominently in the shots than the male extras because- they looked great in bikinis. Mike Nader- primal surfer and buddy of Dora's- incredibly wound up co-starring with Linda Evans, 20 years later, in Dynasty. So, despite the thinness of storyline(s), Beach Blanket Bingo is very entertaining- though maybe not as the director intended.

Brian Washington This is probably one of the best of the "Beach Party" flicks and also marks the beginning of the end. When this film was released, little did anyone know that this would be the next to last appearance for both Frankie Avalon and Annette Funicello and that within a year the whole "Beach Party" genre would be finished. So this film can be seen as the last gasp before they waves died down.