"Frankie" (Frankie Avalon) and his girlfriend "Dolores" (Annette Funicello) are on their way to the beach for what Frankie hopes is a weekend alone with Dolores. Unfortunately for Frankie, Dolores is slightly more conventional and has invited the rest of their surf gang to meet them there. This results in a spat between Frankie and Dolores. At the same time, a professor by the name of "Robert Sutwell" (Bob Cummings) just happens to have rented a beach house right next to the place where Frankie and the gang are staying so that he can study the primitive mating rituals of American surfers. For his research he needs to make the acquaintance of one of the surfers and Dolores is only too happy to spend time with the professor because she wants to make Frankie jealous. In return Frankie decides to make Dolores jealous by showering his affection on a beautiful foreign barmaid by the name of "Ava" (Eva Six). Throw in some bikers, beatniks, beach music along with some scantily clad men and women into a sexually charged atmosphere and the end result is a fun movie which stretches the boundaries but doesn't quite break them. Now, although this is not the first "beach movie" ever made this particular picture-along with its predecessor "Gidget" a few years earlier-was pretty much responsible for the introduction of a brand new sub-genre of film. Although it is certainly dated and some people may not quite understand all the nuances it's still worth a watch for people who enjoy movies of this type.
Review of Beach Party
