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Save your money for something good and enjoyable
2hotFeature
one of my absolute favorites!
FrogGlace
In other words,this film is a surreal ride.
cathyg-1
Two years ago my kids were getting very excited about something new coming to the Disney Channel - Teen Beach Movie. The idea of a Disney musical about kids on the beach sounded kinda lame to me, but I kept getting drawn in as I walked by my kid's room while they watched it.Finally, I sat down to watch the whole thing ... and watched it with them again, and again, and again. Yes, I'll admit it -- I was a late-40's mom who fell in love with Teen Beach Movie.Having grown up on Beach Blanket Bingo films, I loved what Disney did with this parody. It's a cute premise that pays homage to the old goofy classics in a really charming way. It's fun, funny, and the tunes are so catchy, two years later we still break out into them from time to time in our house.Don't expect ground breaking cinema here, but it's a fun little romp, suitable for the whole family, that parents who grew up in the 60's and 70's might just get a kick out of.
callefler
I love this movie so much! I watched it 4 times in just 3 days! It is so great, I just couldn't help it. The choreography is so amazing, I just want to learn all the dances! I love singing along to all the songs, and just play those even more times! More that 10 times each song, plus I've watched the bonus dances about 3-4 times each too. I loved the way each character had their own uniqueness, and how they stuck to the oldies as much as they could (Sure, there were definitely some things that were NOT old). I also found it awesome show Disney Channel is just as funny as it always has been. It just makes you feel warm inside, watching movies or TV shows like this. They don't need to be dirty or degrade anyone in order for it to be funny. And with this type of thing, you just need to be open to love it. I actually went into it hating it but about 30 minutes in the first time I watched it I started loving it. It's funny how sometimes you just need to convince your mind of something. I think that it's just a thing we do, we block something because we think it'll be stupid, or something. Oh, and another reason why I went in hating it is because the main guy that is from Austin & Ally? Yeah, I hate Austin. But I love him in this movie! He just wants to dance and have fun, and he's optimistic just like me! Anyways, I just wanted to give a review on this because I loved it so much!
AStrangeOldMan
Having been alive for the original beach movies (with stars like Fabian, Annette Funicello, Frankie Avalon, et al) it is hard not to bring a pretty jaundiced eye to anything that attempts to reproduce the naïve silliness that these films represented in their innocent lack of any serious content.If you drop your 21st Century cynicism for a bit, Disney did it with this.Not only did they nail the hyperactive, pun-filled, sight-gag filled recklessness of the originals, (minus most of the pretty-overt sexual content of many of those films) they did it using a storyline that managed to both echo and enhance the original beach films. Being an early 60's and 'surf music nut', I was more than surprised how close the orchestrations and choral pieces managed to channel the infectious fun of those old tunes - or maybe I'm just being nostalgic for a simpler time.I recognized all of those old tropes from every film mined for the 'plot' and every song mined for the structure of the film's. Maybe I'm just missing those old simpler days, but I was more than pleased.People who complain about this film obviously have forgotten that the originals were never 'Academy Award' material (remember "The Monkey's Uncle"?). They were silly, weightless fantasy, and "Teen Beach Movie" (from the company that gave us Beach-Film queen, Annette) follows that tradition without impugning or complicating it. It is what it is advertised to be: silly, harmless summer fun.There are very few films that I can totally recommend without reservation to both my 92 year old mother and my 10 year old neighbor - and this is one; my mother for the nostalgic look back at a sweeter, more innocent time, and my neighbor for a painless history lesson.Disney's crystal-ball gazers hit it again - proved by their numbers this week. I don't know how they do it.
guldtoons
Oh no, Disney Channel did it now. This time, they took the clichéd beach movie idea about bikers and surfers. Terrific, now I have a new thing to criticize!!! Yes, the concept has worked well in many olden movies throughout the years. However, last time I checked, the date was not 1955, and that the Soviet Union has apparently disbanded. So yeah, that era has ended rather abruptly. Before I comment any further, however, let's give them some credit. They finally decided to parody movie ideas, instead of simply robbing the heck out of them, which is a good step. However, the next step they made ended with the entire ground breaking in half and my hope for humanity being burned by Earth's iron core. That is, on the fact of the main problem. My trouble is how stereotypical DC always makes their teen characters, which seems to be dramatically overused in this film. I mean, COME ON!!! "TEEN Beach Movie"?! I can't name one teen that would step three toes into the same room as the movie. But I did, so I'd better take that comment back. The problem is that the target audience is clearly teenagers, which they fail miserably at. Oh, why this movie surpassed "Teacher's Pet" in ratings will be a lifelong mystery.
