VividSimon Simply Perfect

Exoticalot People are voting emotionally.

Raymond Sierra The film may be flawed, but its message is not.

Cristal The movie really just wants to entertain people.

Uriah43 This 4th movie in the beach film series is quite peculiar. It essentially begins with some Martians sending one of their agents named "Go Go" (Tommy Kirk) to Earth in order to gather some intelligence on the human race prior to a full scale invasion. As luck would have it he is transported to a house near the California coast where a group of young men and women are having fun on the beach playing volleyball during the day and participating in a pajama party during the night. The leader of the group is a young man known as "Big Lunk" (Jody McCrea) who has a girlfriend by the name of "Connie" (Annette Funicello) and a rich aunt by the name of "Aunt Wendy" (Elsa Lanchester). Because of her wealth some con-men led by "J. Sinister Hulk" (Jesse White) have devised a scheme to break in and steal Aunt Wendy's money from her safe. Throw in a motorcycle gang led by "Eric Von Zipper" (Harvey Lembeck) who love to cause chaos along with an assortment of other strange characters and things begin to get pretty hectic in no time at all. Now, while I thought there were some scenes which were somewhat entertaining I must admit that the abundance of characters and the various sub-plots caused the movie to lose focus and harmony. Even so, I liked the performances of Buster Keaton (as "Chief Rotten Eagle") and the aforementioned Annette Funicello. Likewise, having a beautiful and scantily-clad actress like Bobbie Shaw (as "Helga") certainly didn't hurt the movie in any way. Neither did replacing the typically frantic dance routine performed by "Candy" (Candy Johnson) with a more sensual performance by "Jilda" (Susan Hart). Unfortunately, these few good parts simply weren't enough to balance out the jumbled plot and lukewarm script. Accordingly, in comparison to its predecessors I feel compelled to rate this movie about the same as "Muscle Beach Party" but not as high as either "Beach Party" or "Bikini Beach".

Michael Morrison This movie is so bad, it's downright sinful.What is done to the superlative cast is surely a mortal sin. It includes such outstanding talent as Elsa Lanchester and Buster Keaton and the terribly underrated Harvey Lembeck. Whoever created this monstrosity and wasted all that talent is definitely doomed to one of the more painful circles of the Inferno.This terrible flick is not watchable -- unless one is masochistic -- except when the lovely young ladies are being paraded around in their various stages of undress.The beauteous Annette Funicello, than whom there is none more beauteous, could make the condition bearable if she were up there on the screen alone, but, alas, she is surrounded by such utter garbage even the other lovelies and the other talents, such as Jesse White and Tommy Kirk, can't save this dreck.Probably one ought to see it -- once -- just to be able to believe anyone could ever have perpetrated such a horrible script.

helpless_dancer This was what passed for entertainment when I was a teen. Speaking of which, I saw very few, if any, actual teens in this production. Did see the Maytag man though: this guy always leaves me in stitches for some reason. How well I remember his portrayal of Honest John in a segment of "Beverly Hillbillies". As to exactly why I remember this so well is well beyond me, I just do. Another highlight of this film was Don Rickles, one of my all time fave comics. But the ultimate high point of this or any of the sand and surf epics is none other than Eric Von and his cycle Ratz. They are without peer and I'll fight to the death over this belief. Ok, not to the death, but I do love Von Zipper. I have seen several of the beach pictures and this may be the zaniest one yet....you stupids!

suelyon This is the first Beach Party film w/o Frankie and the film is lacking in wit. Annette sings "Stuffed Animal" and the title song. Nonsensical film has a martian coming to earth to observe the teenagers.