I did have very high expectations for this movie, but on a rainy afternoon, I thought 'eh why not?' Here's why not: It was good. the costumes where hot, the accents where good not bad , and the songs where so cool for the 60's. good turns not bad tunes , good lyrics and it seemed like Maia Ross and Grace where the only people who could actually sing. And then there's the acting. So,so good. I have never been a huge Ross Lynch fan, and this movie popped my respect for his acting to an all time high. the only reason I gave this movie a 10 (a blessing) is because I was genuinely fond of Maia Mitchell as 'Mack.' I thought her acting was very good, as was her singing. I would love to see her in anything else besides, you know, this. To sum it up, do good Disney movies on Disney channel .

No doubt that the Disney Studios is hoping that Teen Beach Movie will spin out into a franchise like High School Musical was. We'll probably see two or three sequels done before the vogue is over. Though how the two real characters of Ross Lynch and Maia Mitchell will be brought back again into the alternate reality of the favorite movie of Ross Lynch should be interesting.

Dare I say it, Teen Beach Movie is not an original idea, the Magic Kingdom has very few of them. The whole concept is ripped off from Plesantville with a much lighter treatment with music and dance. Lynch and Mitchell are watching this Beach Party film from the Sixties to which two more generations have identified with. Mitchell has to go off to school, but she and Lynch ride one last wave during a threatening storm.

And they wind up in their movie where Ross is a guide much like Tobey Maguire in Pleasantville for Reese Witherspoon. He knows what should happen, but their mere presence there throws things out of kilter.

The characters are likable and the music should please any bubblegum pop fan and the franchise will make a mint for the Magic Kingdom. Personally though I'd rather intrude into It's A Wonderful Life or Citizen Kane.

The astonishing success of High School Musical in 2006 , which successfully blended the musicality of the old MGM movies with a contemporary tale of teenagers trying to find themselves, is made all the more astonishing by the simple fact that this movie was ever made. TEEN BEACH MOVIE is nothing more and nothing less than a "cautionary tale," cataloguing in one short but still extremely painful film all the things that can wrong if you actually make a movie without having a clue what you are doing. As the "dedication" off the top makes abundantly clear, the film is meant to be some sort of affectionate spoof or take-off of the original beach movies which, of course, the Disney studio more or less pioneered. Hold it. Stop right there. That was the first monster error in judgement by the producers. See, the original Disney beach movies were themselves social spoofs. The 60s was a time of social chaos and Hollywood elected to respond to that by creating "escapist" films which allowed both teenagers and adults to participate in the insanity from the safety and comfort of a soft theatre seat. The producers of the original beach movies shrewdly understood that the real audience for their films was NOT teenagers living on the beach in southern California -- THEY ALREADY HAD THE REAL THING ON THEIR DOORSTEP -- but, essentially, everyone else on the planet. The larger, and more lucrative, market was offering the vicarious thrill of eyeballing the beach crowd from cities that did not even have much sunshine, yet alone sand and sea. It was a time of change, revealing bathing suits were new, even colour movies were new. The producers of the originals understood this, and used this to their advantage. The producers of TEEN BEACH MOVIE understand nothing, as evidenced by their attempt to "make a spoof out of a spoof" (replete with production numbers in the sand, and, God Help Us, a walk-on by a Mad Scientist). For that strategy to even have a chance of working, their target audience would have to be the SAME audience that saw the originals. See the flaw in logic? What this movie does succeed in doing is seriously threatening the careers of everyone who appeared in it, Even Grace Phipps, who was very effective in the short-lived Chloe King series, looks lost, as though she wandered onto the wrong set. And the Continuity Editor (assuming this production could afford one) did not seem to notice that the young lady had the complexion of Johnny Depp from Dark Shadows, and looked like she had never been on a beach in her life. Bottom line -- shows you what could have happened to High School Musical, if the wrong people had been behind the production.