Product Details

• Actors: James Darren, Michael Callan, Deborah Walley, Carl Reiner, Peggy Cass
• Directors: Paul Wendkos
• Writers: Frederick Kohner, Ruth Brooks Flippen
• Producers: Jerry Bresler
• Format: Color, NTSC
• Rated: NR (Not Rated)
• Number of tapes: 1
• Studio: Sony Pictures
• VHS Release Date: June 22, 1994
• Run Time: 101 minutes
• Average Customer Review: 4.6 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (24 customer reviews)
• ASIN: 6302690382
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #135,915 in Movies & TV (See Top 100 in Movies & TV)

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11 of 12 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Gidget Goes Hawaiian, April 13, 2000

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This review is from: Gidget Goes Hawaiian [VHS] (VHS Tape)

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Gidget, America's favorite beach bunny, returns in this lively sun-splashed comedy. On a family vacation to Hawaii, Gidget Lawrence (Deborah Walley) conquers the boys on Waikiki with her looks and surfing prowess. But our comely young heroine finds trouble in paradise when she is caught in a love triangle involving her steady boyfriend, Jeff Mather (James Darren) and a brash suitor, Eddie Horner (Michael Callan). To make things worse, a jealous rival, Abby Stewart (Vicki Trickett), starts a vicious rumor which temporarily leads to Gidget's estrangement from her parents. Before all the misunderstandings get sorted out, you can count on lots of hot surfing, wild partying and moonlit romancing when GIDGET GOES HAWAIIAN!

I thought this movie was awesome! Then again I like all the Gidget movies.

Some movies the actors/actresses have played in: Deborah Walley~Summer Magic. James Darren~I don't know but he was a famous singer.

4 of 4 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars One of my favorite movies, July 16, 2000

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Maurine "mo" (MD USA) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Gidget Goes Hawaiian [VHS] (VHS Tape)

Gidget goes Hawaiian is one of my favorite movies because it shows true love without the graphic love/sex scenes that movie makers today think are needed. (Just to let you know, I was not alive when this film was made in 1961.) While the gal playing Gidget is not my favorite, she does a good turn as the surfer girl. While in Hawaii, Gidget surfs, water skis, tries to make Moondoggie jealous, and survives a scandal! There are a couple scenes that could have been left out: a dance by character Eddie Horner--people on vacation would not go to see him dance. However, Eddie is one of the sides of the love triangle. They are several good songs sung by James Darren. I heartily recommend this movie for people of all ages. And, the Hawaiian scenery is nice to look at when James Darren isn't on screen.

1 of 1 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars BFFL, December 17, 2007

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This review is from: Gidget Goes Hawaiian [VHS] (VHS Tape)

"Gidget Goes Hawaiian" (1961) was the first Gidget (girl plus midget) sequel. James Darren continued as love interest Moondoggie but Sandra Dee was replaced by Deborah Walley. This role made Walley (a serious and talented actress) into a sudden teen sensation and probably insured that her acting would never be taken seriously. She was my first really big crush although not from this movie (I was too young to care about teen movies) but from "Summer Magic", a children's film she did for Disney several years later.

Walley, who did many of her own surfing sequences for the film, was super cute back then and had a great smile. She looks a lot like a pre-starvation diet Lindsey Lohen. She was only 5'2" and in this film looks a bit dumpy; in part because the clueless costume people gave her a particularly unflattering wardrobe and in part because she was cast opposite Vicki Trickett who would make almost any girl look bad in comparison. But Walley does an excellent job with the role and it is not hard to believe that all the boys would go for Gidget over Abby (Trickett's character).

"Gidget Goes Hawaiian" was released the same year as Elvis's "Blue Hawaii" and if you chopped up the two films and edited them together it would be difficult to tell their sequences apart. Trickett even looks like Elvis movie regular Shelley Fabares. Trickett was the first actress to use the term "best friends for life" (BFFL) in a movie; little realizing its future as a mainstay of text messaging.

The film gave teen girls pop singing star Darren. Darren sings the excellent title song along with a much weaker track titled "Wild About You". Teen girls also got a dancing Michael Callan ("Cat Ballou"). Watch for his impromptu dance sequence with Eddie Foy, Jr.

"Gidget Goes Hawaiian" is short on beautiful Hawaiian scenery and clever scripting but its target audience got plenty of Darren, Callan, and Hollywood's cutest redhead.

Then again, what do I know? I'm only a child.