Under the Boardwalk

1988

Comedy / Romance

7
Rotten Tomatoes Critics - Rotten 56%
Rotten Tomatoes Audience - Spilled 56% · 100 ratings
IMDb Rating 5.4/10 10 504 504

Plot summary

It is the final weekend of summer and a group of Californian teenagers are looking forward to an upcoming surf contest. Rival gangs the 'Vals' and the 'Lowks' are confident that they will take home the trophy, but things become complicated when Reef Yorpin - leader of the Lawks - discovers his sister Allie has fallen in love with 'Val' surfer Nick after meeting at a beach party.

Director

Fritz Kiersch Photo
Fritz Kiersch

Top cast

Rodney Rowland Photo
Rodney Rowland as Surfer #1
Sonny Bono Photo
Sonny Bono as Ancient #2
Paul Carr Photo
Paul Carr as Track
Brian Wimmer Photo
Brian Wimmer as Cage
720p.BluRay 1080p.BluRay
948.84 MB
1280*720
English 2.0
NR
Subtitles us  
23.976 fps
1 hr 43 min
Seeds 2
1.72 GB
1918*1080
English 2.0
NR
Subtitles us  
23.976 fps
1 hr 43 min
Seeds 4

Movie Reviews

Reviewed by lor_

Flop surfing movie

My review was written in May 1988 after a Cannes Film Festival Market screening."Under the Boardwalk", known during production as "Wipeout", is a would-be surfing epic that sinks under the weight of endless cliches. Pic should attract some teen business this summer, but its impenetrable surfer jargon and odd point of view will keep adults away.Film limns a weekend in the life of California surfers competing for an annual prize. THe guys (and one talented femme, Gitch, played by precocious Roxana Zal) are warring amongst themselves as well, in the territorial manner of gangs.Cornball romantic subplots have Allie (cute Danielle von Zerneck) having a crush on surf whiz Nick Rainwood (Richard Joseph Paul, a Michael Pare type), while her possessive brother Reef (Steve Monarque) objects since Nick is a Valley guy. Nick's cousin Andy (Keith Coogan) is visiting but considered a pariah due to his nerd behavior; he falls for Gitch who reciprocates.Under the influence of his mentor Midas (Hunter von Leer), Nick ultimately sees the light and drops out of the one-to-one competition with Reef at the last wave, with Gitch predictably winning over the men. Awkward structure has Andy 20 years in the future telling the tale of Nick to fellow, younger surf nuts. The dialog is so extreme it sounds like Anthony Burgess' made-up language of the future for "A Clockwork Orange".Director Fritz Kiersch crowds the frame with so many representatives of differing contemporary lifestyles and stereotypes (particularly in a messy nightclub scene) that it is difficult to assimilate the action, language notwithstanding. There are some good gags, particularly the casting of Sonny Bono as an ancient surfer given to waxing nostalgically about the good old days.Biggest mistake is the inclusion of extremely rough language on the soundtrack, thereby earning an R rating. There isn't a drive-in audience alive that wouldn't trade several dozen mentions of the f-word for a couple of nude scenes, latter wholly absent from "Boardwalk".Acting and tech credits are okay, but the surfing footage is unexciting.
Reviewed by cynet-52332 1 / 10

One of the 80's massive movie bombs!

I wonder if Sonny Bono last thoughts before he hit that tree in the snow was that my last movie would be this stinker on massive proportions. Did Sonny get paid a lot to star in this movie or did he do it as a favour for one of the producers maybe?Getting back to this lackluster production of a stinker it must have been written as a story plot in less than a day. There really isn't much to give away because the only drama in the whole movie was when the gang bag gets washed out by the waves while a couple are having sexy time.Seriously the scenes seem rushed and the actors look bored as well as embarrassed just dishing out their lines. One whole fight scene and guess what the Juliet of the movie saves her Romeo so yeah go figure!Avoid this movie like the tree Sonny Bono should have avoided.
Read more IMDb reviews

1 Comments

Be the first to leave a comment