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Information
- Year
- 1965
- Runtime
- 98 min.
- Director
- William Asher
- Genres
- Romance, Comedy, Musical
- Rating *
- 5.6
- Votes *
- 1,771
- Checks
- 252
- Favs
- 4
- Dislikes
- 6
- Favs/checks
- 1.6% (1:63)
- Favs/dislikes
- 1:2
Top comments
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Siskoid
An amusing diversion, never to be taken seriously. The three-pronged plot concerns a beautiful singer all the boys want to ogle, skydiving lessons that cause relationship trouble for the two stars, and a mermaid(!) falling for one of the beach crowd, with the recurring bikers (I'm sorry, cyclers) causing cartoon trouble. They're annoying, but redeem themselves in the final chase sequence which is filmed and scored like an old silent film's. The director is an obvious fan, because Buster Keaton shows up all through the film doing his shtick. That's part of the goofy fun of this film that its stars basically trade on who they really are. The singers sing (and while it's not the greatest of musicals, there are a couple of fun songs), Keaton does slapstick, and Don Rickles gets to insult everyone. Don't look for anything deep, it's pretty much a teen humor comic book as written by Bob Haney. And that's fine. 8 years 10 months ago