"Oh Daddy! You think because of an accident of birth you can run my life!"-Francine
Francis "Gidget" Lawrence is back and she has been recast in this the second Film in the Gidget franchise. Not only has Gidget been recast, but so has her father...mother and just about the whole cast with the exception of Jeffery "Moondoggie" Matthews (James Darren) who leaves his signature crooning voice as the hallmark of the first three Gidget movies that started a craze of beach blanket teen films in the sixties.
Sandra Dee is my favorite of the Gidgets, but this one did have a fun Hawaiian flare. Unfortunately it also had some hideous 1960's fashion and a horrible character that spreads rumors about Gidget having had an "unfortunate accident" implying that she had sex and was continuing to be a girl of loose morals.
"Now shall I talk about me or you talk about me?"-
The film starts with Gidget and Moondoggie having a fight, which is really more of a misunderstanding, when he encourages her to go to Hawaii for the experience and she thinks that means he doesn't care and they are breaking up.
"Aren't you going in?"-Russ Lawrence "No, Daddy...I couldn't. That's the same ocean Jeff and I used to swim in."-Gidget
Gidget ends up moping around Hawaii, until talked into it she goes out with some new friends. When she gets caught by Moondoggie kissing another boy...well the two do their best to make the other jealous.
Of course there is a whole parental storyline that adds a lot of comedy to the movie.
"Nice! The negligée is not bad either."-Russ Lawrence
With the foot stylings of Michael Callan and the smooth singing of James Darren, this is still one of the better beach blanket era movies of the 1960's. This is a recommendation but a stronger recommendation if you are a beach blanket movie fan!
Francis "Gidget" Lawrence is back and she has been recast in this the second Film in the Gidget franchise. Not only has Gidget been recast, but so has her father...mother and just about the whole cast with the exception of Jeffery "Moondoggie" Matthews (James Darren) who leaves his signature crooning voice as the hallmark of the first three Gidget movies that started a craze of beach blanket teen films in the sixties.
Sandra Dee is my favorite of the Gidgets, but this one did have a fun Hawaiian flare. Unfortunately it also had some hideous 1960's fashion and a horrible character that spreads rumors about Gidget having had an "unfortunate accident" implying that she had sex and was continuing to be a girl of loose morals.
"Now shall I talk about me or you talk about me?"-
The film starts with Gidget and Moondoggie having a fight, which is really more of a misunderstanding, when he encourages her to go to Hawaii for the experience and she thinks that means he doesn't care and they are breaking up.
"Aren't you going in?"-Russ Lawrence "No, Daddy...I couldn't. That's the same ocean Jeff and I used to swim in."-Gidget
Gidget ends up moping around Hawaii, until talked into it she goes out with some new friends. When she gets caught by Moondoggie kissing another boy...well the two do their best to make the other jealous.
Of course there is a whole parental storyline that adds a lot of comedy to the movie.
"Nice! The negligée is not bad either."-Russ Lawrence
With the foot stylings of Michael Callan and the smooth singing of James Darren, this is still one of the better beach blanket era movies of the 1960's. This is a recommendation but a stronger recommendation if you are a beach blanket movie fan!