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Very very predictable, including the post credit scene !!!

Sadly Over-hyped

Entertaining from beginning to end, it maintains the spirit of the franchise while establishing it's own seal with a fun cast

Each character in this movie — down to the smallest one — is an individual rather than a type, prone to spontaneous changes of mood and sometimes amusing outbursts of pettiness or ill humor.

Beach Blanket Bingo (1965) ** 1/2 (out of 4) The fifth film in the series finds Frankie (Frankie Avalon) and Dee Dee (Annette Funicello) arguing some more when pop singer Sugar Kane (Linda Evans) enters their lives. The story also deals with the two trying skydiving and getting their relationship drama mixed up with the two instructor's drama.BEACH BLANKET BINGO is considered by most people to be the best of the series. I'd probably agree with that statement but at the same time I didn't think the movie was that much better than the first three in the series. I will say that on a technical level this one here is certainly much better as it seems AIP spent some extra money because the film doesn't have that cheap look that effected earlier entries and I'd also argue that the songs were a tad bit better.At the same time, the story itself really doesn't have anything too great as once again Dee Dee proves to be the most jealous girlfriend in the history of cinema. Jeez, I honestly can't remember another character that always creates so much drama. I'm sure this was fun to people back in the day but thank God she was beautiful! Both Avalon and Funicello were certainly comfortable in their roles by this point and they're fun to watch. The regular gang is back including Don Rickles, John Ashley, Jody McCrea and Evans is also quite good in her entrance to the series. Buster Keaton is also brought back, which was great to see.The cinematography also manages to be a lot better here and overall there's a lot of positive things to say about the picture. It was certainly a smart idea bringing Avalon back into the series after replacing him with Tommy Kirk in PAJAMA PARTY.

Something odd has happened over the years. As I get older, I see crap that appeared in the 60s and 70s gain "classic" status. Now, people talk about the wonderful shows and movies of this bygone era (such as I dream of Jeanie, Gilligan's Island, Bewitched, etc.) and I think I must have lost my mind! I mean, even in the time they were being produced, these TV shows were seen as, at best, meaningless fluff. Movies, it seems, have also undergone this revisionism. Rotten old duds are now seen as "great fun" or "classics". I HATE the word "classic"--it no longer has any meaning as it seems to apply to ANYTHING as long as it is old--by that standard, Plan 9 From Outer Space is a classic!.So why did I pick this particular movie to review? There surely are MANY grossly overrated pictures but this one gets the nod because I just opened by Leonard Maltin guide and found he gave this movie 3 stars. That's like hanging a velvet Elvis painting in the Louvre!! Come on folks--don't be fooled. This is American-International Pictures AND Annette Funicello AND Frankie Avalon! There can't be a greater recipe for dreck than this!

I hadn't seen this movie since I was a kid. I always sort of preferred a picture that preceded this one in the series with Bob Cummings as, I think, a Sociologist studying surfers in their natural habitat. Anyway, I recently ran into this one on cable. Fairly early on Eric Von Zipper and The Rats do their number (I don't recall the title) in which - not once, but twice - Von Zipper's lyric says "I am my ideal!" (This develops in the scene that follows into the running gag (or is it a leitmotif?) of Von Zipper calling Kandy Kane his 'idol' - referenced in earlier comments.) Then, in the very next scene, as Von Zipper and the Rats enter the nightclub, he says "Stand aside everyone, I take large steps!" My jaw dropped a bit. Both of these are direct quotes from A FUNNY THING HAPPENED ON THE WAY TO THE FORUM, which had opened a little over a year earlier on Broadway! Late in Act One Miles Gloriosus, a Roman Soldier (Ron Holgate) announces his entrance by shouting, from offstage: "Stand aside everyone, I take large steps!", which cues the music for his song, which includes the lyric "I am my ideal!" Is William Asher paying homage to Sondheim and Burt Shevelove (who wrote the book for FORUM)? Is it an inside joke? Or is it just plain old-fashioned plagiarism? Anyone?Another interesting (to me, at least) question: Is this where William Asher first saw/met Paul Lynde? Were the seeds for Uncle Arthur (Who would appear a couple of years later on BEWITCHED) planted in the sand of BEACH BLANKET BINGO??

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.