I love this movie so much

it is finally so absorbing because it plays like a lyrical road odyssey that’s also a detective story.

This is a small, humorous movie in some ways, but it has a huge heart. What a nice experience.

By the time the dramatic fireworks start popping off, each one feels earned.

Good storyline (a used one though), great actors and actresses, excellent costumes, beautiful film location, and catchy songs. The TBM was like a combination of the movies Back To The Future, 17 Again, and West Side Story. I had never really been a huge fan of Ross Lynch before so I had no idea how good this movie was going to be. As I was listening to Ross speaking, I didn't find his voice to be "attractive". But then everybody broke out into singing and I was amazed! I later found out that Ross was the lead singer of a band with his two brothers, sister, and close friend called R5 and now I'm a fan. Anyway, TBM was a great little movie. Can't wait for the sequel! 7/10 stars.

I am a product of the 1950s and 1960s, I remember the fun we had back then and I remember the 1960s beach blanket movies. This one re-visits that time with a "Pleasantville" type of twist to it.The premise is set up during the first 16 minutes, two teenagers become boyfriend and girlfriend after a summer of fun and surfing in California (filmed in Puerto Rico). She is about to be sent off to an east coast private finishing school to fulfill her late mother's wishes, and wants to get one last, big wave in. That is when it happens!Riding the special surfboard with the waves getting dangerous and the boy taking a jet ski out to rescue her, they both surface to very calm water. They soon figure out they have been magically transported, along with the surf board, back 50 years into the boy's favorite 1960s beach movie, the fictional "Wet Side Story." It's the bikers vs the surfers for the control of the favorite hangout. So he recognizes all the characters and the musical numbers, he is thrilled and all she wants to do it get back to present time. Not much different from the kids in "Pleasantville." In fact, as it develops it has both a "Pleasantville" and a "Back to the Future" sensibility, as the new kid saves the girl from falling off a stage and in the process subverts the script in the movie. So part of their task becomes to get the two main characters back together. Much as Witherspoon's character did in "Pleasantville", the girl from the present tells the girls for the 1960s that they have choices, they can do what they want to do, even surf or ask a boy out.The boy from the present is Ross Lynch as Brady and the girl from the present is Australian Maia Mitchell playing a believable American teen, McKenzie or Mack as she is mostly called. Grace Phipps is the cute, innocent biker girl from the 1960s Lela, and Garrett Clayton is the cute, innocent surfer teen from the 1960s Tanner. All of the kids are capable singers and dancers. Barry Bostwick has a nice small role as Big Poppa, Mack's grandfather who builds surf boards.I found it totally fun to watch, with its playing on the time-travel themes and real people influencing characters in a movie.Then there is the very short scene during the credits, somehow the 1960s kids showed up on the beach in present time, and are taken aback by modern styles and the cell phone that talks to you!

***This review does contain tiny plot key points and character names***NO. Grease is a brilliant film, and Disney just screwed it up by making this nonsense. The title itself is awful, uncreative and stupid. Why are there 'surfers' and 'bikers'? The plot is complete nonsense, with random characters thrown in unnecessarily. The villains, were driven by appropriate qualities: greed. But they were added in way too late, I think Disney forgot, and chose to add them in later. The film made no sense, and the acting was just downright cringe-worthy. I hope rubbish like this is not re-created. With the music, it wasn't THAT bad, but it wasn't great either. Characters: Brady (Ross Lynch) at the beginning, he's a biker. What would've made the story more like Grease would be if 'Brady' joined the bikers and 'Mack' joined the surfers to spite him. The plot was boring, dull and again, lacking in creativity. Disney need to consider fixing whatever this nonsense they call a 'film' is.

Oh no, Disney Channel did it now. This time, they took the clichéd beach movie idea about bikers and surfers. Terrific, now I have a new thing to criticize!!! Yes, the concept has worked well in many olden movies throughout the years. However, last time I checked, the date was not 1955, and that the Soviet Union has apparently disbanded. So yeah, that era has ended rather abruptly. Before I comment any further, however, let's give them some credit. They finally decided to parody movie ideas, instead of simply robbing the heck out of them, which is a good step. However, the next step they made ended with the entire ground breaking in half and my hope for humanity being burned by Earth's iron core. That is, on the fact of the main problem. My trouble is how stereotypical DC always makes their teen characters, which seems to be dramatically overused in this film. I mean, COME ON!!! "TEEN Beach Movie"?! I can't name one teen that would step three toes into the same room as the movie. But I did, so I'd better take that comment back. The problem is that the target audience is clearly teenagers, which they fail miserably at. Oh, why this movie surpassed "Teacher's Pet" in ratings will be a lifelong mystery.