This is an absurd attempt by MGM to stay relevant in the 1960's youth culture. What is interesting in this and the whole group of movies like this one is the attempt by the older generation to stay relevant to a media created youth culture. Those of us who grew up through it realized how empty the phrase "turn on, tune in, and drop out" came to be.
It is a good lesson in what the generation gap was all about and why the Mad Men who made this were not the same as the glorified ones one the TV series. The women get much better script writing and brains on the show. Here they are pretty much empty headed bimbos filling bikinis. Neither image is accurate and both are disturbing in their own way.
The one here is how the older generation wanted their women.
Trying to clone Herman's Hermits into another Beatles success is a obvious money grab and was done without success in a whole bunch of movies during this era. While their music was always good, it just never caught up with what the Beatles and the Stones were doing. No one else ever did either.
The Dave Clark 5 actually titled their best film song Catch Us If You Can/ Having A Wild Weekend better though they borrowed the best parts of that film from The Marx Brothers who bridged all generations and still do.
Some of the Hermits hits are here, and some of their B Side Album Tracks are too. Sometimes the B tracks would get remade into bigger hits by other artists. Trying to remake the Hermits into the Beatles did not work. You gotta love the cast - Dennis The Menace's TV Dad and Bernard Fox (Dr Bombay on Bewitched) are on board. Shelly Fabares who just might have logged more screen time in a bikini than anyone is here, along with Sue Ann Langdon who was close to becoming a big name actress.
As this is 1966, because of JFK and an all powerful media in the 60's, the Democratic Party represented youth in this era. This movie tells you the ideas they had then. Learn from it as this is exactly what Democrats are trying to recreate now 2015- for the next election. They want to be the youth culture again. It will be interesting to see if today's youth buy into it the same way the 1960's ones did.
It is a good lesson in what the generation gap was all about and why the Mad Men who made this were not the same as the glorified ones one the TV series. The women get much better script writing and brains on the show. Here they are pretty much empty headed bimbos filling bikinis. Neither image is accurate and both are disturbing in their own way.
The one here is how the older generation wanted their women.
Trying to clone Herman's Hermits into another Beatles success is a obvious money grab and was done without success in a whole bunch of movies during this era. While their music was always good, it just never caught up with what the Beatles and the Stones were doing. No one else ever did either.
The Dave Clark 5 actually titled their best film song Catch Us If You Can/ Having A Wild Weekend better though they borrowed the best parts of that film from The Marx Brothers who bridged all generations and still do.
Some of the Hermits hits are here, and some of their B Side Album Tracks are too. Sometimes the B tracks would get remade into bigger hits by other artists. Trying to remake the Hermits into the Beatles did not work. You gotta love the cast - Dennis The Menace's TV Dad and Bernard Fox (Dr Bombay on Bewitched) are on board. Shelly Fabares who just might have logged more screen time in a bikini than anyone is here, along with Sue Ann Langdon who was close to becoming a big name actress.
As this is 1966, because of JFK and an all powerful media in the 60's, the Democratic Party represented youth in this era. This movie tells you the ideas they had then. Learn from it as this is exactly what Democrats are trying to recreate now 2015- for the next election. They want to be the youth culture again. It will be interesting to see if today's youth buy into it the same way the 1960's ones did.