How to Stuff a Wild Bikini (1965)

"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 Amazon.com

This Makes Elvis Movies Look Good

What's amazing to me was how little actually went into these Beach Party movies. If you stacked them all up--and to answer the drill sergeant's question from FULL METAL JACKET, they CAN stack it pretty high--you'd see just how little effort went into these movies. The same costumes, the same recycled sound effects and wretched jokes, the same lame, mugging actors--they even reused the same stock footage of ocean sunsets for every movie.
They could have shot all the Beach Movies in about a week's time. Erich Von Zipper's scenes are identical in every single one of these movies.
"Paul Lynde doesn't want to play the Suit this time? How about Don Rickles? He said no, huh? Well, let's ask Mickey Rooney. He might even sing some dopey songs."

But the chicks are hot. That's all that's lasted: the chick's are hot.

Did anybody catch that North Dakota Pete was Uncle Leo from "Seinfeld"? March 20, 2006

It sucks

Quite possibly the worst movie i've ever seen. The effects are worse than any Loony Tunes, the plot more contrived and the comedy one tenth as good. My five year old would not be amused. January 10, 2006

One Star BUT...

Isn't this just the greatest TITLE in the history of motion pictures?

January 6, 2006

How To Stuff A Wild Bikini Is Bikinitastic!

Annette, and Frankie are yet back again. In the '65 Teen Flick How To Stuff A Wild Bikini. While Frankie is off in the navy, he enlists the help of a wise witch doctor (Keaton) to conjure up a wild, sexy bikini clad vixen to distract Ricky(Hickman)from getting to cozy with his girl Dee Dee (Annette). This is a side-splitting, romantic comedy. Full of hot bikini babes, great surfing, great singing, and a great plot. THe comic plot also includes Brain Donlevy, Buster Keaton, Harvey Lembeck and his rats and mice, Beverly Adams, John Ashley, Jody McCrea, Patti Chandler, Bobbie Shaw, Mary Hughes, and Special Guest Star Mickey Rooney. So if You Like Bkini Clad Vixen's, and beefcakes, than watch How To Stuff A Wild Bikini Beach tonight. August 9, 2005

Come on

I loved this movie.It was hillarous and great.Meet the characters-DeeDee,Frankie,the witch doctor and meet his daughter,Eric Bon Zipper,his gang,Peachy,Casondra,and the big beach party gang.Watch it and enjoy it. February 21, 2005

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