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Aspect Ratio: 1.85:1
Audience Rating: PG (Parental Guidance Suggested)
Binding: DVD
EAN: 0097363198048
Format: Anamorphic, Closed-captioned, Color, Dolby, DVD-Video, Subtitled, Widescreen, NTSC
Label: Paramount
Manufacturer: Paramount
Number Of Items: 1
Publisher: Paramount
Region Code: 1
Release Date: June 01, 2004
Running Time: 92 minutes
Sales Rank: 4559
Studio: Paramount
Theatrical Release Date: August 07, 1987
Editorial Review:
Amazon.com:
Is Back to the Beach a masterpiece of postmodernism? Or just a slaphappy hoot? Hey, why can't it be both? Either way, this is a zippy tribute to/spoof of the 1960s Beach Party pictures. Frankie Avalon and Annette Funicello, landlocked in the Midwest since their surfing days, return to the California sun with their wild kids. There are mucho gags about the earlier films (including Frankie on a surfboard in front of a cheesy rear-projection wave), and cameos (much of the Leave It to Beaver cast, surf-guitar king Dick Dale). Pee-wee Herman sails in to perform 'Surfin' Bird,' and Annette teaches a thousand people 'The Jamaican Ska.' All that's missing is Erich von Zipper. This is a genuinely smart and funny movie, although it helps to know the original films, so you can savor the moment a beach boy gazes at Annette and marvels, 'After all that surfing, her hair's perfectly dry!' --Robert Horton
Customer Reviews
Average Rating: 
Rating: - One Last Romp
More than 20 years after they were the rulers of the beach, Frankie and Annette finally got hitched and moved to Ohio! Frankie got a job as a used car salesman and Annette is busy making peanut butter sandwiches. The years have made them a bit uptight and square(Frankie especially). But when they decide to take a family vacation to Hawaii with their son(probably the most irritating and grating child ever put on film. He shuffles around the movie looking like he just stepped out of the Blue Oyster ... Read More
Rating:  - Bobby!!!!
If you like anything about surfing movies, or surf music, or old TV shows and actors, you will like this movie. It's goofy and predictable, sure. But what isn't anymore? If you are a Stevie Ray Vaughan fan, or a Dick Dale fan, then their scenes are worth owning the DVD for.
Rating: - It is what it is!
Such a classic that is all there is to say. If you like cheezed out 80s movies, you will like this.
Rating:  - Back to the beach
very lighthearted a little bit slow in some places. On the whole a good watch. Frankie and Annette are always good entertainment. The son was a bratty kid who never seemed to get punished fot the things he did. Lori Loughlin was good in her character.
Rating: - Blast to the past
This is an update to all the Beach Movies with Annette and Frankie. They are married with children but Frankie is "longing" for those old beach glory days. They take a nostalgic trip back for the fun but dealing with the reality of being a different generation. They are also dealing with the problems of raising their children and being PARENTS now.
To those who lived this time with the "Beach" movies, there are subtle jokes that only the "seasoned" watcher will pick up but is still ... Read More
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