After watching two hideously bad beach party rip off movies made at Paramount, I seemingly fell into something surprisingly even worse: a juvenile musical farce that has less intelligence than any of the silly sitcoms that have become infamous from the 1960's. Frankie Randall and Sherry Jackson headline the leads of this non-beach set beach movie, set mostly in houses and dives along the Pacific Ocean. Badly filmed in black-and-white and looking like a cheap TV special with a slight plot involving the fight over a sorority house thrown in, this immediately shows its lack of color in more ways than one. The only actual scenes of the beach occur only when cars drive by or when Randall and Jackson are standing on the back porch deck, and one brief romantic scene.
This has a novelty a featuring a future Oscar winner among the guest stars, a very young Cher (along with Sonny), singing one number very briefly and completely overshadowed by her future husband. The song selections are a mixed bag of novelties and quickly forgotten pop songs, and the comedy scenes seem to be out of something you'd see in a Three Stooges short. One moment has Jackson getting into a food battle with local college dean Booth Coleman who gives as much as he gets, but the way it is presented is an embarrassment of stupidity. The background score seems like something stolen from the vaults of cheaply made sitcomswe're at least you would have a laugh track to know when you were supposed to chuckle. This makes even the lowest quality American International "Beach" movie seems like something that Orson Welles wrote in comparison.
This has a novelty a featuring a future Oscar winner among the guest stars, a very young Cher (along with Sonny), singing one number very briefly and completely overshadowed by her future husband. The song selections are a mixed bag of novelties and quickly forgotten pop songs, and the comedy scenes seem to be out of something you'd see in a Three Stooges short. One moment has Jackson getting into a food battle with local college dean Booth Coleman who gives as much as he gets, but the way it is presented is an embarrassment of stupidity. The background score seems like something stolen from the vaults of cheaply made sitcomswe're at least you would have a laugh track to know when you were supposed to chuckle. This makes even the lowest quality American International "Beach" movie seems like something that Orson Welles wrote in comparison.