Back to the Beach

  • Comedy
  • Music
8/7/1987
92
PG

All killer...no filler!!

Cowabunga! The surfing '60s ride into the new wave as Frankie and Annette star in this hip update of their old-time, good-time beach movies. With special appearances by Bob Denver, Tony Dow, Pee-Wee Herman, Jerry Mathers and other familiar faces. Frankie and Annette grow up and have kids in the midwest. They return to LA to visit their daughter who is shacked up with her boyfriend and tries to hide the fact. They begin to have marriage problems when Frankie runs into Connie, who has erected a shrine to him in her night club. Their punk son has joined up with the local surf toughs, and things all come to a head when the toughs challenge the good guys to a surfing duel

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  • Wuchak

    Revisiting those zany beach party flicks from the mid-60s

    Frankie & Annette are now married and living in Ohio. Frankies a workaholic business owner and neglecting Annette, so they decide to fly out to SoCal to visit their daughter and old haunts on their way to Hawaii.

    Back to the Beach (1987) pays homage to those dozen AIP beach party films that were released from 1963-1968, half of them starring Frankie Avalon and/or Annette Funicello. The movie is amusingly hammy, poking fun at those madcap 60s flicks. Connie Stevens is on hand, looking great at 48, along with several cameos of familiar faces, like Bob Denver from Gilligans Island.

    Siskel & Ebert praised the movie on their show (the episode is available on Youtube)....

    August 21, 2023

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