moonspinner55 Pop singer in Los Angeles is told the record business has forgotten her--she had a hit single two years ago, but her last album lost money. She responds to this rejection by driving to the beach, her childhood sanctuary, to play in the sand and flirt with the impressionable kids. This is history repeating itself: a sun-kissed 1970s update of the beach party genre, which hadn't been in vogue since the mid-'60s. Although written by John Carpenter (in his salad days) and William Schwartz, from a treatment by John Herman Shaner and Alvin Ramrus, this TV-movie has sunshine and wet sand to spare but doesn't have the hormone-crazed teenager lingo down right (everyone under 18 talks like a beleaguered adult). Suzanne Somers, still riding high with "Three's Company", shows polish in the lead, but the younger players are hit-and-miss. Rosanna Arquette needs help rolling a joint, P.J. Soles is tired of playing volleyball, Timothy Hutton is training to be a lifeguard, Michael Biehn ("J.D.") ruins Suzanne's sandcastle, and Tanya Roberts (with a belly-chain) is a knockout pretending to be just another dateless chick in the crowd. Not credible for an instant, and embarrassing when it tries for seriousness, but at least the scenarists keep it relatively clean. These kids want romance! How's that for a beach come-on?

elshikh4 Before the opening credits someone told the lead to take a vacation, and this movie undoubtedly is. It's not Zuma beach. Just a day on Zuma beach. Fun day to be specific.It looked like they hired 2 guys. One to write the beach's glee. And another to write the unnecessary unrelated talkative scenes in between. I mean don't ask what was the main theme, since seriousness was totally out. The whole thing is about having a nice time. At one indicative moment one guy tells the rest about his old man who's interested in the Middle Eastern crisis then in nanosecond the movie cuts to a close up of a girl's butt moving in rainbow-colored bikini. Enough opinion from the movie towards any seriousness ! It's not a musical beach movie a la the ones of the 1960s. Or a teen beach comedy as the ones of the 1980s. Actually, it's the tamest, less interesting, version of both. However it managed perfectly to be so attractive thanks to the sweet colorful cinematography, the good female bodies in bright swimsuits, the light songs, the sarcastic lines and Suzanne Somers's everything! It's where we not talk about the movie's elements but review the movie's dolls. And seriously they were all HOT! (Kimberly Beck) and her fascinating black bikini (where is such a gal ??), or (Rosanna Arquette) back when she was a hottie. Both were sexier than (Suzanne Somers). Though, who cares ?! The director loved them all. For instance (Lee H. Katzin) just filled up the screen with Somers's assets being all the time in that blue swimsuit, walking, playing and bending! The whole movie was a feast of eye candy. Well, a little feast. But a feast anyway!I wanted the bar's owner to be the storyteller of the story, but there wasn't any. I wanted interesting characters, but there was only a smile.. a beauty.. then a kiss. So who needs characters ? Hence I wanted more beauties (yes, I'm that greedy!) but this is what it is. A TV movie after all. And if they made it just for exploiting Somers's stardom back then, getting ratings, then they hit the mark.My big finish : It's the 1970s's fluff TV at its gayest moment, the last time I saw (Somers) as sexy, and while it's surely not a great movie; it's great as hot time.

dna007 It is true that there are a lot of beautiful people in bathing suits in this movie. While this is not necessarily a bad thing it probably has distracted some people from the wonderful character development throughout this film. The dialog is clever and the scene's flow evenly from one to another. It has always amazed me that so much is happening in just one afternoon on a beach in California. Watch it with an open mind. Enjoy the beautiful scenery and magnificent bodies but also revel in the simple story of changing lives. This is a pleasant easy going movie, no bad language, nudity or serious violence.This was made for TV and cannot be bought but it shows up every so often on cable.10 is a really high number to put on a movie. I look at films and if there is nothing that I would change then it should have a 10. This is rating the movie on itself and not ranking it in comparison other movies. Of the 1000 or so movies that I have seen I would rank this one around 985+. I cannot readily think of 15 movies that I thought were better. Movies that I would watch multiple times rank highest. I have seen this one at least 6 times and will watch it again

Hermit C-2 'Zuma Beach' is strictly a jiggle-and-giggle flick, as one commentator once put it so aptly, designed to get TV ratings and nothing more. Suzanne Somers was in the midst of her successful (and horrible) network series 'Three's Company' at the time this was made and the idea was to strike while the iron was hot.Somers plays some kind of rock singer, believe it or not, who is experiencing a career crisis of sorts and comes out to the beach to clear her mind and look for inspiration, or something like that. The local high school beach boys just about lose their minds when they see her stretch out on the beach, though I find their own bikini-clad girlfriends such as Rosanna Arquette, Kimberly Beck and P.J. Soles a lot sexier. Somehow all their lives get intertwined, and through making sand castles and playing volleyball Suzanne somehow manages to instill self-confidence and worth in a number of these youths while finding new inspiration for her own career. Amazing.This is the type of empty entertainment that one can find enjoyable from time to time even if it's only because it gives you a good laugh. Some of the faux-Beach Boys songs on the soundtrack may have you and your dog howling at the screen together, though.