Cubussoli Very very predictable, including the post credit scene !!!

VeteranLight I don't have all the words right now but this film is a work of art.

Humaira Grant It’s not bad or unwatchable but despite the amplitude of the spectacle, the end result is underwhelming.

Ava-Grace Willis Story: It's very simple but honestly that is fine.

edwagreen This is certainly no ordinary college spring break film. Yes, the kids are having a good time singing, dancing, drinking and frolicking in the pool in beautifully warm Florida during their annual break, but there is a rape scene here and it is well acted by a troubled Yvette Mimieux who turns in a genuinely fine performance as one of the girls out for a good time, but certainly gets more than she has expected.Dolores Hart, or should I call her by her current name, Sister Dolores Hart, is really amazing as the girl in trouble with her studies and that family living professor, who goes to Florida to unwind but instead finds true bliss with the wealthy playboy, played by the always debonair George Hamilton.In her first film, Connie Francis plays the spunky Angie along for the ride. Frank Gorshin, with those goggle glasses, adds to the mix, but in comparison to what he could be like, is comparatively subdued here, even with the funny scene in the tank. Barbara Nichols, with that high strung voice, adds to the comic relief.

Uriah43 This movie begins with 4 female college students who live in the Midwest and decide to drive to Fort Lauderdale, Florida for Spring Break. Although all of them are looking for a little fun and romance their attitudes quickly evolve into wanting something more fulfilling. While their individual reactions to these feelings are somewhat tempered by social norms, each of them approach their dilemma in a different manner. For example, "Melanie Tolman" (Yvette Mimieux) happens to be quite beautiful but she is also very immature and naive. As a result she throws herself at a guy on the mistaken assumption that he loves her when in reality all he wants is sex and promptly discards her afterward. Her naiveté is further exploited a little while later. Unfortunately, she isn't the only person who has to struggle with her emotions as her friends "Tuggle Carpenter" (Paula Prentiss) and "Merritt Andrews" (Dolores Hart) also encounter pressure from their boyfriends which causes internal strife within them as well. At any rate, although this film certainly has its share of comedy, as a comedy as the situations become more serious it gradually morphs into a moralistic drama. Even so, I liked the singing of Connie Francis (as "Angie") and I thought the scene where "Basil" (Frank Gorshin) fell into the fish bowl was quite hilarious. All in all I rate this movie as slightly above average.

skiddoo To me, this is a coming of age movie. They go to Ft. Lauderdale as children and come home sadder but wiser adults. It's a journey.There is also the theme of the outsiders. Our core group are bookish or socially awkward/isolated who go to "where the boys are" and then aren't entirely sure what to do next because while they are full of theories, they are lacking in practical experience. These are not the social butterflies with easy ways and an unconcern about tomorrow who are all around them, casually flopping in their room and crowding every inch of the town. Melanie tragically found out that romantic delusions about Ivy League fellows have nothing to do with reality. In today's terms, she might be the innocent star struck girl who got involved with minor celebrities and all they were into. I hope she went home and gave a decent local boy she had never noticed before a chance.People read their own perspective on life into this movie. That's easy to do because it handles some adult themes and can't be classified as just another beach blanket bingo. It reminds me more of the original Gidget movie from 1959. It's about one crucial time when everything changed for those involved.And by the way, Tuggle sent the police after the rapist. He didn't get off scot free! And there was mention of a girl who got pregnant one vacation but she got married before she gave birth which was awkward but not horrifying, certainly not to these four who wanted love and commitment although they hoped no babies right away. So let's get over the idea that this is a typical "bad girl gets punished and nothing happens to the boy" movie. There was obviously a whole lot of mating going on as the booze flowed into underaged students in Ft. Lauderdale!But our group came from an unusually strait-laced background--nobody could call their college a party school! I enjoyed Tuggle so much. Paula Prentiss was an amazing find and I watch all of her movies I can. Tuggle was the modern assertive counterbalance to Melanie's almost Victorian vulnerability. She wasn't as emotionally constrained as Merritt, except when Merritt broke down and cried, or as passive and sort of sad as Angie. I could see why they would all be friends. They complemented each other. And I could see the nun that Dolores Hart would become in the portrayal of Merritt when she was tenderly listening to Melanie in the hospital.As for the main guys, TV was a stitch if juvenile, Ryder needed to put some age on him before he would be really handsome instead of a callow and shallow rich guy, the Ivy Leaguers were as interchangeable to us as they tried to be to Melanie, and Basil was purely weird--I most remember his myopic fish face in the tank!

mhrabovsky1-1 One very hot and widely discussed film when it first came out in late 1960.....sex, sex and more sex was the theme throughout most of the film and by a 1960 standard it was pushing the limit. Teens however went to see it in droves. I was in high school at the time (soph) and I could probably have taken 40 different girls to see that film when it first came out...everyone was talking about it as the top date movie. One top notch cast of guys and gals taking up the sun and rays of Ft. Lauderdale Florida with hormones and suds flowing. The gals, Connie Francis, Delores Hart, Paula Prentiss and Yvette Mimieux got their careers started and advanced with their appearance in this film, although Hart had appeared in a couple of Elvis films before WTBA. This film is comedy supreme. Just taking a look at the girl's hotel room filled with students they didn't even know, sleeping there at random was a stitch. You've got to love the scene with Hart and Francis in a diner ordering two cups of hot water to mix ketchup in!!! Then there are the guys swooning and staring at the gals all over the place. In summary the four gals were all looking for romance in the right and wrong places throughout the movie with a little love, jealousy and heartbreak thrown in. Their boyfriends, George Hamilton, Frank Gorshin, Jim Hutton and a couple of unknowns add to the zaniness with their shenanigans. Check out the scene at the night club when everyone jumps into Lola's swimming pool and the nightclub manager goes bananas trying to throw them out of the club. In the end alls well that ends well and four new romances are kindled with the gals and their boyfriends as they head back to that mythical college in the midwest somewhere. As far as the sexual mores of the time "A Summer Place" with Troy Donahue and Sandra Dee was probably much more sexual in content that WTBA. Also "Imitation of Life" with Lana Turner a year before put sex over the top. Still this is a great film to see even 45 years later as dated and hokey as it may seem.