Back to the Beach

Name: Back to the Beach
Genre: Comedy, Musical
Released: August 7, 1987
Duration: 92 min
Rating: 62
Cast: Annette Funicello, Connie Stevens, David Bowe, Demian Slade, Frankie Avalon

1987

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Paramount Pictures | Release Date: August 7, 1987 | PG

Starring: Annette Funicello, Connie Stevens, David Bowe, Demian Slade, Frankie Avalon, Joe Holland, John Calvin, Laura Lanoil, Lori Loughlin, Tommy Hinkley

Summary: Frankie and Annette, having grown up and put aside their beach-partying lifestyle, visit their daughter in Southern California and discover there's still some wild times left in them.

Director: Lyndall Hobbs

Genre(s): Comedy, Musical

Rating: PG

Runtime: 92 min

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Roger Ebert

I don't know what I was expecting from Back to the Beach, but it certainly wasn't the funniest, quirkiest musical comedy since Little Shop of Horrors. Who would have thought Frankie Avalon and Annette Funicello would make their best beach party movie 25 years after the others? Read full review

Gene Siskel

It's a clever premise that is fully realized with old songs, old TV performers and new ones, too. This could become as big a cult movie as Pee- wee's Big Adventure. It certainly is more entertaining than that film and even more fun than Grease. Read full review

Bill Cosford

It's more fun than you'd figure, this sendup aimed at two distinct generations, only one of which ever took Annette or Frankie seriously. You wind up, by the end, thinking of them both as awful good sports. [08 Aug 1987, p.B1]

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Back to the Beach is fun for a while, but its six-person writing team can't figure out a logical way to wind it all up. Read full review

TV Guide Magazine Staff (Not Credited)

Much could have been done to enliven this film if the script provided more satire instead of parading the same inanities with a smirk this time around. It's harmless but in need of a transfusion. Read full review

Caryn James

Back to the Beach opened yesterday. But if you catch a television commercial for it, or the rock video that's on television, you'll get the joke and see the most this movie has to offer. Read full review

Annelise Wamsley

Back To The Beach, starring the early '60s most popular teen-agers, Frankie and Annette, combines the campiness of a college reunion, the corniness of a high school musical, and the values of Mister Rogers. The film's only redeeming quality is that it knows it … and manages to laugh at itself occasionally. [10 Aug 1987, p.1D]

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