You could fit the plot of this movie inside the smallest beach shell and still have room for the music. Like "Beach Ball", it starts off promising, with an appearance of the Beach Boys (as opposed to the Four Seasons in "Beach Ball") and goes downhill from there. The minutte plotline involves a group of college girls who find out that their den mother (veteran actress Sheila Bromley) has absconded with money raised for their sorority house, so they must put on a show to get the money back. Thanks to one of their idiot boyfriends, the girls are sure that they've gotten the Beatles no less to appear at their benefit, and of course that's not true.
Tossed into the mix is Lesley Gore as herself, apparently one of the sorority girls, doing nothing but singing a few songs. Like "Beach Ball", the young men involvedin the story end up in drag, being grabbed to dance by other men who were far too blind or stupid to notice what they were really looking at. The real issue here, is that the film is simply just boring, the comedy unfunny and even the music not all that memorable. The Beach Boys sing a beach song that sounds exactly like "La Bamba", and the words just don't go with the rhythm.
Noreen Corcoran and Linda Marshall in the leading female roles really have no presence, have a story, told from a woman's point of view, does the female gender no favors in a liberated era. The only interesting young presence is Lana Wood, more for her family connections and scandalous history than for the performance. It really hits a low point when some of the girls dressed up as the Beatles, looking closer to the Mosquitoes on "Gilligan's Island".
Tossed into the mix is Lesley Gore as herself, apparently one of the sorority girls, doing nothing but singing a few songs. Like "Beach Ball", the young men involvedin the story end up in drag, being grabbed to dance by other men who were far too blind or stupid to notice what they were really looking at. The real issue here, is that the film is simply just boring, the comedy unfunny and even the music not all that memorable. The Beach Boys sing a beach song that sounds exactly like "La Bamba", and the words just don't go with the rhythm.
Noreen Corcoran and Linda Marshall in the leading female roles really have no presence, have a story, told from a woman's point of view, does the female gender no favors in a liberated era. The only interesting young presence is Lana Wood, more for her family connections and scandalous history than for the performance. It really hits a low point when some of the girls dressed up as the Beatles, looking closer to the Mosquitoes on "Gilligan's Island".