Blu-ray Review – The Beach Girls

How does one approach a film like "The Beach Girls," with all its questionable material and fixation on titillation? It's not an especially good movie, with fumbling performances, on-camera mistakes, and a screenplay dripping with goofy stereotypes. At times, it's downright horrible. However, this 1982 production carries a weird aura of innocent fun, with silly shenanigans its only real concern, generating a party atmosphere of dancing, sexin', and imbibing while it shares copious amounts of nudity to guarantee screen interest. A major force in the beach picture revival of the 1980s (1984's "Hardbodies" being its crowning achievement), the feature sets out small goals for itself and accomplishes them without much of a fuss. "The Beach Girls" is just amiable enough to entertain, though a steady finger on the fast-forward button is recommended to slip past the moldy vaudeville routines that pass for a sense of humor here. Read the rest at Blu-ray.com