Endless Bummer

After receiving a new surfboard from his good friend and mentor, "Mike Mooney" (Matthew Lillard), a recent high school graduate known simply as "J. D." (Khan Chittenden) takes it out to the ocean for the first time. To his dismay, after riding a particularly nice wave, he wipes out and loses sight of it as he goes under. Feeling disappointed that it hasn't washed up on the beach, he asks his friends, "Sparky" (Colton James) and "Lardo" (Ray Santiago), for help in finding it. It's then revealed that a teenager named "Brian Kramer" (Andy Fischer-Price) was last seen driving off with it to his home in the San Fernando Valley. So, with his three friends, they set out to visit Brian Kramer. Also with them are J. D.'s girlfriend "Anne" (Caitlin Wachs) and her best friend "Iris" (Allison Scagliotti), who seems to know more than she lets on. Now, rather than reveal any more, I will just say that I didn't have high expectations for this film, and as a result, I wasn't overly disappointed after watching it. The plot was okay, and some of the actors performed reasonably well. Unfortunately, movies like this tend to rely too heavily on certain stereotypes about surfers, and this film goes too far in that regard. Likewise, for a comedy, there wasn't much humor either. That said, despite the stereotypes, I suppose the movie wasn't too bad overall, and I rated it accordingly.

This is the worst movie I have ever seen in the history of seeing movies and I have seen a lot of rubbish, this however tops them all.

There is no content and there is no story, it is an endless stinking pile of goo where clichés one after another is being jammed down the throat of the viewers of this flick. During the few moments this is not the "content" of the movie, the "content" consist of fillers.

Any school kid that makes a movie can make a movie with more entertaining content than this movie.

DO NOT WATCH THIS, you will regret it and wished you could undo the traumatizing experience that will give you scars from the boredom for the rest of your life.

The title is very misleading and I do not see why they put National Lampoon in front of this movie and why did they call it surf party? When I started to watch this movie I did not have very high expectations about the content and thought this would be like another hyperactive T&A movie with a surf theme.

To my surprise, I found out this was not true. Instead this is a coming of age movie that tells a story about some friends on a journey to find a stolen surf board and why the surf board got stolen. Main characters are likable and the acting feels normal. The movie flows along in a nice pace and I never got bored or looked at the clock while watching this movie.

This movie reminds me of teen movies from the late 70's like The Van (1977) and Malibu Beach (1978). The movie also has some quirky characters appearing like Joan Jett and Lee Ving. The only thing missing here is Steve Oliver as Dugan, getting into a fight and yelling, "Nobody calls Dugan a turd!"

As a surf comedy and a National Lampoon movie, there is no nudity, but the girls show some skin in bikini's. I think the movie tries to rely on storytelling and characters rather than showing T&A to keep viewers interested though the movie.

A modern surf comedy that feels like a late 70's surf comedy? A pleasant surprise.

Well the movie is not that bad in actual! Sure it doesn't have a great story line, but its better than the most movies of of this kind which i happen to have suffered overtime. Acting is really good and dialogues are mature which was a nice surprise for me. Sure it seems that someone has made a movie after properly doing their homework.

It is made with a different sort of perspective and has more to it than a couple of hot girls showing off their body which is sadly what most of "summer surf beach movies" are made off these days and may not appeal to all users. But i found it interesting and recommend it.

Also it contains some fun and witty stuff so you may get laugh every now and then :)

I love surfer flicks. It's not a good one, but it's watchable. It's a cool beach flick. The main guy is kinda cool too. The blonde surfer type. Some of the chicks are hot. It's a laidback surfer film. Nothing to be learned. It's cool!

I don't know. Watch it if that sounds cool.

3 stars