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Ok - here goes... Whats not to like about this Bruce Brown Film? As an avid surfer admirer - and a great summer lover. I especially am attracted to this from this perspective. Alot of great travel and world scenery, you can't really have it any better then around the world endless summer with a couple of guys hitting all the great and remote surfing spots available throughout the world. Filmed in the sixties, it brings back the beauty of surfing and the remote beaches that were available back then. Water, sand and surf, if you like that, then this is the movie for you. Great cinephotography. Kickback and relax and enjoy.
Before The Endless Summer came out, there were beach party movies and romance movies where the surf was only in the title and surfing was done minimally. They also portrayed surfers as moronic dorks who sing to their girlfriends on their guitars. They also either do that or pretend to surf around in a giant fishbowl. The Endless Summer averts that stereotype. Instead, the two surfers, Mike and Robert, are smart and determined to go to the places where the summer season is on. That, and to go catch some waves while they're there. They don't sing on guitars, aren't moronic and don't pretend to surf. They actually do surf, encounter many new cultures and people, make some friends along the way and even cross paths with real-life beach girls. (No, the average beach girl does not look like Mary Hughes or Salli Sachese.) It ahs been stated that several real-life surfers were pissed at how many of the surf movies of the 1960's portrayed them. I wonder what they had to say about this movie. Hopefully, this movie didn't piss them off. I certainly wasn't.Read full review