Movie Reviews for Where the Boys Are

Where the Boys Are

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Movie Reviews of Where the Boys Are

Movie Review: Not What You Think It Is
Summary: 4 Stars

This film is not one of those silly and insipid movies about young college kids getting drunk, and getting involved in stupid slapstick situations.

It's about four girls who go on a spring break to Fort Lauderdale, expecting to find boys (which they do), but what happens is they end up becoming women. Delores Hart shines in the leading role as Meredith, a mid-western pharmacist's daughter who is already on her way to becoming a woman. Paula Prentiss and Connie Francis provide the comedy with their boyfriend's antics. Yvette Mimieux is the young gullible and overly-romantic girl who gets seriously involved, and then abused by a bunch of seemingly good handsome boys (who are nothing but thugs).

Some parts of the movie are silly and stupid: the story involving Barbara Nichols, and Jim Hutton's infatuation with her. But that storyline isn't long enough to ruin the movie.

The ending is not that predictable, but you end up feeling that these girls have grown into womanhood.

Movie Review: best spring break movie ever
Summary: 4 Stars

Oh man, this brings back memories! It's still a surprisingly good movie half a century after we first fell in love with the idea of heading south from norhtern campuses. Paula Prentis is sexy, gangly and amazingly good. Connie Frances can sing the title song over and over and it's OK with me. Delores Hart is another Grace Kelly who ended up chosing the convent over the prince as an alternative to a movie star's life. Jim Hutton is goofy but believable. And Yvette Mimieux! -- the perfect (and perfectly beautiful) ingenue.

Most of all, though, it's the nostalgia that makes the movie work: Ft. Lauderdale when it was still possible, before it became way too gentrified and uptight about itself; the feedom to take off, hit the road with little money and manage to find a good time on the beach and in the bars; a more innocent time.

This one goes on my must-watch-again list for every Mid-March mini-film festival.

Doug Wilhide
Minneapolis

Movie Review: The sixties begin.
Summary: 4 Stars

Suntans, first love, jazz, date rape. And all in one film. "Where the Boys Are" ushered in the 60's, perhaps unwittingly, with its portrayal of half a dozen teens on Spring Break and their new attitudes about sex, life, and sex. Dolores Hart (now a Mother Superior in real life) plays a privileged Midwestern girl with very progressive ideas about interpersonal relations, while Yvette Mimieux's tragic character learns the hard way the lessons of promiscuity, at least according to Hollywood at the time. A very enjoyable film, and a nostalgic final glance back at the fading 1950's, as a new generation was about to make its mark on the social mores of Spring Break and the new world of the 60's.

Movie Review: Where the Boys Are
Summary: 4 Stars

I viewed this original movie many years ago and found it to be funny, but serious in the values I was raised with. You can't miss the lessons of honesty and morality which seems to be almost non-existent in the movies and culture of today. I would recommend it to anyone.