Back To The Beach
A former beach boy (Frankie Avalon) and his wife (Annette Funicello) go to California to visit their daughter and discover there's still some wild times left in them. The plot is merely the means of connecting the various sight gags, homages and in-jokes.
2 June 1948, Sioux City, Iowa, USA
21 July 1961, New York, USA
8 October 1963, Santa Monica, California, USA
4 January 1964, Los Angeles, California, USA
29 September 1963, Los Angeles, California, USA
15 July 1967
8 March 1921, Los Angeles, California, USA
28 July 1964, Queens, New York City, New York, USA
January 01, 2000
"Back to the Beach" is, by no means, a deep and thought-provoking motion picture, [but] when you're dealing with Frankie and Annette, what more could you ask for?October 07, 2003
A bouncy, high-energy spoof and one of the best movie musicals of the last couple of decades.August 21, 2002
Face it, it just doesn't workSeptember 16, 2004
Silly fun.July 26, 2002
Weirdly entertaining little retro flashback, full of bizarre cameos and endearingly goofball music.September 27, 2002
Silly, but with some great one-liners.March 11, 2005
As fgood as taking a time-machine back to the 60's