Gidget Goes Hawaiian

  • Comedy
  • Music
  • Romance
6/2/1961
101
NR

Get Happy! Get with it! Beach-Parties! Luau-Feasts! Surf-Boarding! Hula-Dancing! Have yourself a Hawaiian holiday when..."Gidget Goes Hawaiian"

Francis is desperate: her parents want to force her to come with them on vacation to Hawaii - just during the two weeks when her beloved "Moondoggy" is home from College. When he suggests her to go for it, she's even more in panic - doesn't he care to be with her? So she sets out for Hawaii in the worst mood. On the plane she meets the sociable Abby, who gives her the advice to forget about Jeff - and regrets it shortly after, when Francis follows the advice and steals her boyfriend Eddie, a famous dancer. But then Jeff discovers he's missing Francis...

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  • Wuchak

    Fun early 60s beach flick; lacks the depths of the first film

    RELEASED IN 1961 and directed by Paul Wendkos, "Gidget goes Hawaiian chronicles events when Gidget (Deborah Walley) breaks up with Moondoggie (James Darren) and goes to Hawaii with her parents. By the time Moondoggie eventually shows up, Gidget is making time with a celebrity singer/dancer (Michael Callan) and soon has a rep as an easy girl.

    Walley has better curves than Sandra Dee in the original 1959 movie and shes generally fine as the new Gidget, but her annoying facial expressions paint a (seemingly) weaker, whinier protagonist. Dee was underdeveloped at 16 when Gidget was shot, but there was something precious, dynamic and strong about her version of Gidget; moreove...

    May 29, 2018

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