An absolutely silly beach party rip-off, this could have been called "The Worm vs. the Wigglers" with its idiotic story involving Edd Byrnes' rock group striving to avoid having to give their instruments back to fuddy duddy renter Jack Bernardi. The Wigglers are your every day beach blanket band who are introduced by the Four Seasons (singing "She's No Good For You" in a terrific nostalgic opening) and don't compare to the act that came before them. Then, it's either put up with another 80 minutes of pure silliness while waiting for the other special guests to show up, including the Supremes and the Righteous Brothers, or fast forward. And what is up with Diana Ross's hair in this, looking like a giant utility soup pot.
Poor Bernardi gets the worst abuse with his character seemingly drugged everytime bikini-clad blondes are around and ending up sleeping on a surfboard in the middle of the public during the day, threatened with arrest several times. The Wigglers end up performing in hideous drag, looking uglier than the Bowery Boys. At one point, they sing a song that is sped up deliberately along with the camera to make it appear that the dancers are deliberately moving at a breakneck speed.
it's obviously did better at the drive-in where the teenagers watching the film could be distracted from the silliness look up everytime a musical number started. The acting is beyond atrocious and the script so cartoon like that indeed you do expect Shaggy, Scooby and the gang to show up looking for the monsters, aka the Paramount executives who approved this dreck.
Poor Bernardi gets the worst abuse with his character seemingly drugged everytime bikini-clad blondes are around and ending up sleeping on a surfboard in the middle of the public during the day, threatened with arrest several times. The Wigglers end up performing in hideous drag, looking uglier than the Bowery Boys. At one point, they sing a song that is sped up deliberately along with the camera to make it appear that the dancers are deliberately moving at a breakneck speed.
it's obviously did better at the drive-in where the teenagers watching the film could be distracted from the silliness look up everytime a musical number started. The acting is beyond atrocious and the script so cartoon like that indeed you do expect Shaggy, Scooby and the gang to show up looking for the monsters, aka the Paramount executives who approved this dreck.