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    Back To The Beach (1987)

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    It’s hard to imagine who Lyndall Hobbs thought would love her parody of early sixties beach movies like How To Stuff A Wild Bikini (1965) and Beach Blanket Bingo (1965) – kids who were too young to have seen the originals or ancient dodo’s who remembered the old films with fondness.

    Frankie Avalon and Annette Funicello (who were also the executive producers) are together again as Ohio parents who return to the scene – you know where it’s at; Malibu.

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    The oldsters’ offspring are as tamely rebellious as they themselves were in days of yore. Their daughter has moved to Malibu and shacked up with a beach bum, and their young teenage son, Bobby (Demian Slade) is a punk who wears leather, flicks his switchblade and mercilessly attacks the inane banality of his parents.

    There is a confrontation between the clean-cut surfers and the punk surfers, there’s a surfing competition (Frankie comes out of retirement to win it), Annette sings a reggae song, Frankie sings a few rock songs and so does Connie Stevens.

    Kookie Byrnes, Don Adams and the cast of Leave It To Beaver walk on and the audience gasps. Pee-Wee Herman does Surfing Bird, oh man.

    At least Bobby Darin wasn’t around to see this.

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    Annette
    Annette Funicello
    Frankie
    Frankie Avalon
    Connie
    Connie Stevens
    Sandi
    Lori Loughlin
    Michael
    Tommy Hinkley
    Bobby
    Demian Slade
    Troy
    John Calvin
    Zed
    Joe Holland
    Mountain
    David Bowe
    Robin
    Laura Urstein
    Bridgette
    Linda Carol
    Fleishman
    Hartley Silver
    Webby
    Todd Bryant
    Ernie
    Floyd Foster Jr.
    Odie
    Emil McKown
    Fishbones
    Kendall Jones
    Norwood Fisher
    Walter A. Kibby II
    Christopher Dowd
    Phillip Fisher
    Rodney Bingenheimer
    Himself
    Dick Dale
    Himself
    Stevie Ray Vaughan
    Himself
    Harbor Master
    Don Adams
    Valet
    Edd Byrnes
    Bartender
    Bob Denver
    Bartender’s Buddy
    Alan Hale Jr
    Pee-Wee Herman
    Paul Reubens

    Director
    Lyndall Hobbs

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