| Date | Area | Gross |
|---|---|---|
| USA | USD 13,110,903 |
During a long dolly shot of the singing cast marching down the beach, wheel tracks in the sand from the camera car are visible.
The initial external shot of the airborne Boeing 747 is a full-length version of the plane.
Upon landing, it is clearly the much-shorter "SP" version of a TWA 747.
During the Big Beach Bonfire Party, Annette starts out wearing an orange sweater over a sparkly white top and pants.
Minutes later, she's wearing a bright pink wetsuit with a polka-dot skirt while she surfs with Troy.
She goes off to find Connie in the very next scene and she's back to wearing the original outfit.
| Date | Area | Gross |
|---|---|---|
| USA | USD 13,110,903 |
Its a 80 movie with the heart feom the 60. It brings back high school memories.
Meta didn't seem to be a thing when Back to the Beach came out. And while on the surface this seems to be a simple parody of beach party movies - it even uses the same character names from many of them - it has a heart of weirdness that makes it rise above what it could be, like the very best beach movies always do.
The preeminence of a formerly strictly Black type of Music had been with us for well over a decade when the "New" Song & Dance form, now known as "Rock 'n' Roll" was forever fused with the Movies.The Southern California Surfing Scene, the New Mores of permitting the Exhibition and viewing of highly Semi-Nude Human form on the screen and the Economic$ and Realitie$ that possibly for the first time in our history, the Adolescent or "Teen Ager" was beginning to show that it was to show that it was His/Her expendable Ca$h Dollar$ that were a, if not THE, number factor in the Movie Business.
Frankie and Annette were hanging on the sand when Frankie got a letter from his uncle Sam, it said get Moondog and all your clan your all invited to a beach party Viet Nam, cooking hot dogs with napalm beach party Viet Nam. Holy lord what turds.
Best movie ever!!! If you haven't seen it - BUY IT I could watch this movie over and over again LOVE LOVE LOVE IT :) Annette keeps you laughing The cheesy songs are catchy haha The beach is GORGEOUS and you gotta love the Big Kahuna :) last song from the movie is the best one yet haha the guy even gives Becky from full house an engagement ring with a little surfboard on it haha - so classic...
If you've been to film school or honestly believe black and white film noir somehow has the edge on all other genres then cease reading and go back to your bongo, beret and pretentious clover cigarettes because you will never understand how much fun this film is. Take the icon duo of Frankie and Annette put them in a parody of their own genre add a half dozen cameos from some of the most memorable characters 60's T.
Although "the Big Kahuna" (Frankie Avalon) and "Annette" (Annette Funicello) were the king and queen of the California beach scene twenty years earlier, the two of them now live ordinary lives in Ohio with their rebellious adolescent son named "Bobby" (Demien Slade) giving them more drama than the two can handle. So in great need of a vacation they book a flight to Hawaii with a brief scheduled layover in California in order to visit their daughter "Sandi" (Lori Laughlin).
In the early to mid 60's Annette and Frankie were in what I used to think as dumb beach movies. But as I've gotten older their really quite funny and entertaining.
In this movie Annette Funicello and Frankie Avalon played the characters they played in all those beach party movies. They married, moved to Ohio, have a daughter named Sandy (Lori Loughlin) in Califonia and a rebellious son Bobby (Damian Slade).
