Audience Rating: NR (Not Rated)
Binding: VHS Tape
EAN: 9786302690385
Format: Color
ISBN: 6302690382
Label: Sony Pictures
Languages: Array
Manufacturer: Sony Pictures
Number Of Items: 1
Publisher: Sony Pictures
Release Date: 1994-06-22
Running Time: 101
Studio: Sony Pictures
Theatrical Release Date: 1961-06-02

Customer Rating:
Summary: So excited!
Comment: I am so excited I found this site.
When the movie came out, my friends and I went to the Theater and saw it 2 times. Then we went back the next day and saw it again.
I love the Hawaiian setting, it made me really want to visit Hawaii. I finally got my wish and went to Hawaii in 2006. I took a cruise and spent 3 days in Wakiki. I had intentions to visit the Moana hotel, hoping the Moana Room is still there, but I ran out of time. Does anyone know it the Moana room still exist?
I also heard that Debra Walley is deceased.
Rating*****

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Customer Rating:
Summary: BFFL
Comment: "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.

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Customer Rating:
Summary: Deborah Walley's Best Movie
Comment: This movie is terrific on many levels. It is very well written. The dialogue and timing are exquisite. It is the best Gidget movie and it is also Deborah Walley's best movie. Seeing Hawaii about 50 years ago is also a real treasure. The music is fun and the dancing is great. The young love with Gidget and others is very realistic. It will make you want to be young again and in love in the 50s and 60s. This is a movie which you can watch again and again. It just gets better. That is very unusual for a movie. If you are young or if you are old and dream of being young again don't miss this one.

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Customer Rating:
Summary: Let's All Go Hawaiian!!!
Comment: This movie is a load of fun, as is the original. While I think that the late Sandra Dee was the best Gidget, Deborah Walley (RIP)is definitely running a close second!!! Now that all three of the Gidget films are available on DVD in one collection (it's about time!), it is such a fantastic trip down nostalgia lane.

Gidget is so upset over her parents' surprise Hawaiian vacation, and her boyfriend Jeff's (Moondoggie) seeming indifference to her going away, that she ends up dating a dancer named Eddie Horner (Michael Callan) and arousing the envy of Abby Stewart (Vicki Trickett) whose 'weirdy' parents have befriended Gidget's parents (Carl Reiner and Jeff Donnell). While Gidge tries to forget, Moondoggie, of course, unexpectedly shows up in Hawaii, and is floored by her growing relationship with Eddie. As these jealousy tactics go, Jeff begins seeing Abby, who has no clue that this is the boyfriend Gidget told her about. Abby is so envious of Gidget's talents and her magnetic personality, that she decides to plot our girl midget's downfall by starting a rumor about her past association with "Moondoggie". Her parents hear of it (courtesy of Abby's gossip mother, played by the late Peggy Cass, what a character!), and they try to delicately advise her about her "unfortunate experience" which leaves our lovable heroine so distressed that her folks would even believe such a thing about her!!! Again the word SEX does not come up, but the viewers know what is being discussed. Gidget's daydreams then begin, often humorous but the worst that could happen scenarios, my favorite being the feather strip tease when she removes her bra (big feather covering her of course) and the men in the audience yell, "Put it back on!" Her reconciliation with Moondoggie, her parent's argument, and each parent running into one of Abby's, and Gidget's worry over them, make for an amusing situation. Carl Reiner (father of director Rob Reiner)is in top form as the Gidge's daddy, (and how about that Hawaiian shirt, tan shorts and black knee socks!), and the two girlfriends of Abby, the tall blond one in particular, provide great comic relief, as does Joby Baker (Stinky,or Judge).

Watching this made me want to go to Hawaii, big time. And Deborah Walley is the only one of the actresses who played Gidget who actually performed her own stunts (the long shots of the acrobatic moves on the surf board - that's not a double, that's Deborah!) gives the film an authentic feel. My younger sisters adore this movie and the original, and I plan to show them "Gidget Goes To Rome" as well. These movies are deserving of their DVD release, and are great fun to watch!!! Don't pass the "Gidget" films up!!!!!!

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Customer Rating:
Summary: Great '60s Kitsch!
Comment: I love this movie the best of all Gidget movies. Although Deborah Walley wasn't actually my favorite Gidget, she does a good job and this story line is one to make you feel wonderful. I love the characters, the clothes and the Hawaii of the 1960s, when it was a pleasure to visit and not so over crowded and touristy like it is today. This is a perfect lazy Saturday night or rainy Sunday afternoon movie; a classic for Gidget fans everywhere! You won't go wrong with this one.

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