{"id":8234,"date":"2024-11-12T00:23:35","date_gmt":"2024-11-12T05:23:35","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/movieguy247.com\/MovieGuy\/?p=8234"},"modified":"2024-11-12T00:23:35","modified_gmt":"2024-11-12T05:23:35","slug":"the-beach-girls","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/movieguy247.com\/MovieGuy\/2024\/11\/12\/the-beach-girls\/","title":{"rendered":"The Beach Girls"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"\"The Beach Girls <\/strong>(1982)\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Crown International\/Comedy\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 RT: 91 minutes\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Rated R (nudity, language, lots of drug use and drinking)\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Director: Pat Townsend\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Screenplay: Patrick Duncan\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Music: Michael Lloyd\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Cinematography: Michael D. Murphy\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Release date: March 26, 1982 (US)\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Cast: Debra Blee, Val Kline, Jeana Tomasina, James Daughton, Adam Roarke, Dan Barrows, Herb Braha, Mary Jo Catlett, Fern Fitzgerald, Tessa Richarde, Judson Vaughn, George Kee Cheung, Channing Clarkson, Paul E. Richards, Bert Rosario, Tom Logan, Jordan Welch.\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Box Office: N\/A<\/p>\n

Rating<\/strong>: ****<\/p>\n

\u00a0This is my absolute favorite of the Crown International teensploitation flicks! You might even say I have a sentimental attachment to The Beach Girls<\/strong>, a silly comedy about three hot girls, a beach house and the madness that ensues when they take it over for the summer. Not long after we moved to a town that got Cinemax (November \u201983 to be exact), I snuck downstairs late one Friday night to watch it in the basement family room out of earshot of my dad who I prayed would stay asleep the whole 91 minutes. I got lucky and saw it all the way through uninterrupted. At 15, I thought it was great! Even better, they showed it a lot the following summer so I got to rewatch it several times. It\u2019s one of those movies I never get tired of. Granted, it\u2019s no cinematic landmark, not by a long shot or any length shot, but it sure is a lot of fun.<\/p>\n

\u00a0The set-up is simple. Sarah (Blee, Hamburger: The Motion Picture), a serious-minded honor student with an eye towards law school, is invited to spend the summer at a beach house owned by her rich Uncle Carl (Roarke, Dirty Mary Crazy Larry). She invites her two wild friends from college, Ginger (Kline) and Ducky (Tomasina, Up the Creek), to join her. They bring with them a handsome drifter, Scott (Daughton, Malibu Beach), they pick up hitchhiking on the way. The two girls, who have little more on their minds than having fun and meeting guys, waste no time in getting the party started. They throw a wild party to end all wild parties.<\/p>\n

\u00a0If I was using my serious voice for my review of The Beach Girls<\/strong>, I\u2019d ask why an uptight girl like Sarah is friends with wild ones like Ginger and Ducky. It doesn\u2019t seem like a good fit. Well, this is a matter teenage Movie Guy doesn\u2019t give two hooters about. He thinks it\u2019s a riot and so do I. It\u2019s one of those comedies that isn\u2019t shy about slipping into stupidity. A perfect example is when somebody shouts \u201cFood fight!\u201d and the next shot shows people dressed in hamburger, ketchup and mustard costumes shoving each other around. Another scene has a party guest arguing with a baggie of weed in the style of those old Parkay margarine commercials- i.e. \u201cparsley\u201d, \u201cmarijuana\u201d. Just thinking about it makes me giggle like a college-age stoner.<\/p>\n

\u00a0How do Ginger and Ducky get so many male party guests on such short notice? Why, they let their fingers do the walking…. through the Yellow Pages. They call for all these delivery people- a pizza guy, TV repairman and a diaper service that turns out to be a big-busted delivery GIRL (Richarde, The Last American Virgin). Damn, she is HOT and HUGE! Other guests include a nerd, an auxiliary cop, a \u201cmuff diver\u201d (with snorkel and flippers) and about a hundred horny teens. And if you think this party is wild, wait until you see the one they throw after Ginger and Ducky seduce Uncle Carl into letting them stay on after the first party. That\u2019s the one with the awesome herbal party favors that Ginger and Ducky find on the beach. Six Hefty garbage bags filled with weed. It seems drug runner Captain Jack (Richards) tossed them overboard when he was about to be busted by Coast Guard captain Blye (Braha, The Howling), a seaman who apparently reveres Humphrey Bogart\u2019s Lt. Queeg from The Caine Mutiny. What are the chances he and his men will show up at party #2? BTW, the highlight of that one has to be the fight between the Hispanic gardener (Rosario) and an Asian chauffeur (Cheung, The Amsterdam Kill). Of course, his name is Wang and he says \u201crimo\u201d instead of \u201climo\u201d.<\/p>\n

\u00a0Am I forgetting something? Oh yeah, Uncle Carl is engaged to uptight Julie (Fitzgerald, Dallas) who gets a call from a nosy neighbor (Catlett, Diff\u2019rent Strokes) about suspicious activity at the house. She flips out when she catches him in the sauna with Ginger and Ducky calling him a \u201clout\u201d and the girls \u201chussies\u201d. Naturally, the girls don\u2019t know what either term means- \u201cWhat\u2019s a hussy?\u201d, \u201cWho\u2019s Loud?\u201d There\u2019s also a great sing-along scene (\u201cHay-La-Di-La-Di-Lo\u201d) replete with dirty lyrics- e.g. \u201cI am the pizza delivery boy. Eat my salami, it gives me joy!\u201d I still have these things memorized. ALSO, director Pat Townsend (Coach) reuses a shot of a dog stealing a bikini top from Malibu Beach. If nothing else, Crown International is thrifty.<\/p>\n

\u00a0Who cares about the acting when the girls are this freaking HOT? The Beach Girls<\/strong> has plenty of T&A too. Its humor ranges from dumb to dirty yet it\u2019s never sleazy. Well, maybe the idea of middle-aged Carl with those two college girls is mildly sleazy but they\u2019re of legal age. Besides, there\u2019s a cute romance brewing between Sarah and Scott. Like her two besties, he thinks she ought to lighten up and cut loose which she does at party #2. In addition, The Beach Girls<\/strong> has a decent rock soundtrack and a cool opening credits montage of fun beach activities. It\u2019s a great teensploitation flick to kick off summer vacation. Thank you for all the great memories (and mammaries), Crown International!<\/p>\n

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