- Actors: Annette Funicello, Dwayne Hickman, Brian Donlevy, Harvey Lembeck, Beverly Adams
- Directors: William Asher
- Writers: William Asher, Leo Townsend
- Producers: Anthony Carras, James H. Nicholson, Samuel Z. Arkoff
- Format: NTSC, Import
- Number of tapes: 1
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- Studio: MGM (Video & DVD)
- VHS Release Date: Mar 7 2000
- Run Time: 93 minutes
- Average Customer Review: 3.2 out of 5 stars See all reviews (12 customer reviews)
- ASIN: 0792843940
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"It ain't nothin' without the stuffin'!" That's what all the groovy beach partyers say when a phantom bikini appears out of nowhere, and suddenly fills out its two-piece form with the voluptuous body of Cassandra (Beverly Adams), who soon has all the beach-hunks drooling. Along comes Madison Avenue adman "Peachy" Keane (Mickey Rooney) to recruit Cassandra for his "Girl Next Door" ad campaign, while his assistant Ricky (Dwayne Hickman) gets all googly-eyed for Dee Dee (Annette Funicello), who's not as easy as the other sand 'n' surf chickie-babies. And where's Frankie (Avalon)? He's on a tropical island with the navy reserve, sampling the comely native fauna and bribing the local medicine man Bwana (played by... Buster Keaton?!) with generous doses of alcoholic "torpedo juice" in return for a failsafe love potion. Oh, and did we mention the cross-country cycle race that will determine who's the fairest young couple in the land?
The sixth installment of the seemingly endless Beach Party series, How to Stuff a Wild Bikini is a minor step up from Gilligan's Island, but you've got to love a movie that includes a mischievous pelican, an appearance by the Kingsmen (of "Louie Louie" fame), and a half-dozen forgettable pop songs that virtually define the beach-party genre. Comedy purists may lament the downward spiral of Buster Keaton's career, but he's just having good, dumb fun like everyone else, and geographic distance doesn't stop Frankie and Annette from crooning a split-screen duet. And dig those clay-animated opening credits by Gumby creator Art Clokey! Let's face it, these movies are perfect time capsules of juvenile entertainment, and if you can't enjoy them in all their cheesy glory, you're nothin' but a square! --Jeff Shannon
From the back cover
"Young bodies splash and frolic against a background of fun and fantasy" (The Film Daily) in this wet and wild, bikini-bulging, '60s bash! Stuffed with equal amounts of Hollywood hoopla and bodacious babes, this ultimate beach party movie is a real rip curl, mixing magic, mayhem, and pre-metal rock music with an all-star cast that includes Annette Funicello, Frankie Avalon, Dwayne Hickman, Buster Keaton, and Mickey Rooney.
While Frankie (Avalon) is off in the Navy, he enlists the help of a witch doctor (Keaton) to conjure up a wild, bikini-clad vixen to distract Ricky (Hickman) from zeroing in on his girl, Dee Dee (Funicello). If voodoo doesn't do you, wait until the music starts, because once this plot is set into motion, it's one non-stop shindig, full of "excitement, romance, and side-splitting comedy" (Box Office).
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5.0 out of 5 stars
Frankie And Annette And Samantha from Bewitched,
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This review is from: How to Stuff a Wild Bikini (Widescreen/Full Screen) (DVD)
The Best scenes are Frankie Avalon and Annette Funicello singing a song together and there is a good scene with Elizabeth Montgomery in her role of Samantha from Bewitched sending Frankie home to Annette who plays Dee Dee and also Annette singing songs.Although Frankie isn't in many scenes with Annette since his character is away he is in the story and Frankie does come home to Annette.If you like Frankie Avalon, Annette Funicello and Elizabeth Montgomery and Bewitched then you would enjoy this.The scene with Elizabeth Montgomery in her role of Samantha from Bewitched makes this film more fun.Frankie and Annette are always good together and though they don't have many scenes together in the film it is a good film and they do have scenes together later in the film.
2.0 out of 5 stars
Like a Disney film directed by Andy Sidaris.,
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This review is from: How to Stuff a Wild Bikini (Widescreen/Full Screen) (DVD)
Too silly. Too leering. Even more hackneyed than others. Bad songs. Little cleverness. A supporting cast of lesser interest, to me anyway. (No Susan Hart, no Don Rickles, no Donna Loren, darn little Buster Keaton and Bobbi Shaw- and she's a brunette here). Watchable at best.
2.0 out of 5 stars
Like a Walt Disney film directed by Andy Sidaris.,
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This review is from: How to Stuff a Wild Bikini (Widescreen/Full Screen) (DVD)
All very silly and naive, but as leering *in tone* as just about anything you'll find. The movie opens on a close-up of a girl's navel, and soon a group of boys are singing a song about girls' measurements. It continues downward (?) from there. There are much better Beach Party movies than this recycled patchwork of earlier and superior songs, characters, situations and chases.IMHO, "How to Stuff..." needed more Buster Keaton and Bobbi Shaw. An appearance by Susan Hart wouldn't exactly have felt like a sharp stick in the eye, either.
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