In 1987, there was a movie called Back to the Beach, which I saw on video a bunch of times and really dug. But it was loosely based on a series of Beach Party movies from the 1960s, which I'd never seen (they were before my time). But I did see them eventually. I think they're pretty redonkulous, and not nearly as good as the 1987 movie. But they're kinda fun, if you watch them at least semi-ironically. Seeing them could also be kind of useful for understanding the influence the movies had on pop culture, such as a scene in one episode of Family Guy.

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