How to Stuff a Wild Bikini (1965)
* 1/2 (ouout of 4)
Frankie (Frankie Avalon) is serving in the Navy on a beautiful island when he gets worried that Dee Dee (Annette Funicello) might not be being faithful so he goes to Bwana (Buster Keaton) for a potion. Back in the states Dee Dee finds herself desired by a man while a bikini salesman (Mickey Rooney) is looking for the next big model.
HOW TO STUFF A WILD BIKINI would bring the original Beach Party series to an end and while it's better than SKI PARTY there's no doubt that the series had ran its course and the final two pictures were rather lame to say the least. In fact, this last installment only has a few scenes of Avalon who was apparently cut out of the original screenplay when he asked for a pay raise.
The film's biggest problem is that it really doesn't have much of a story and instead we've just got a bunch of half-brained scenes that don't add up to much. The Avalon stuff is just lame and the Funicello stuff isn't much better as they had to shoot her in full clothes (while everyone else is in bikinis) because she was pregnant in real life. Rooney gives an energetic performance but poor Keaton isn't given much to do.
For the most part this was a decent series but there's no doubt that the final two movies were made just to try and milk whatever success was left. Neither film were all that good so sadly the series came to a bad end.
* 1/2 (ouout of 4)
Frankie (Frankie Avalon) is serving in the Navy on a beautiful island when he gets worried that Dee Dee (Annette Funicello) might not be being faithful so he goes to Bwana (Buster Keaton) for a potion. Back in the states Dee Dee finds herself desired by a man while a bikini salesman (Mickey Rooney) is looking for the next big model.
HOW TO STUFF A WILD BIKINI would bring the original Beach Party series to an end and while it's better than SKI PARTY there's no doubt that the series had ran its course and the final two pictures were rather lame to say the least. In fact, this last installment only has a few scenes of Avalon who was apparently cut out of the original screenplay when he asked for a pay raise.
The film's biggest problem is that it really doesn't have much of a story and instead we've just got a bunch of half-brained scenes that don't add up to much. The Avalon stuff is just lame and the Funicello stuff isn't much better as they had to shoot her in full clothes (while everyone else is in bikinis) because she was pregnant in real life. Rooney gives an energetic performance but poor Keaton isn't given much to do.
For the most part this was a decent series but there's no doubt that the final two movies were made just to try and milk whatever success was left. Neither film were all that good so sadly the series came to a bad end.