Spoilers This movie has good points and many unrealistic points. Suzzanne Sommers plays Bonnie a recording artist, who bursts on this beach scene getting tremendous attention from the teenagers who come to the beach. Then the viewers discover as Bonnie does, there are many twists, ties and problems, in the teenagers lives within the story. Bonnie befriends many of the teenagers and almost magically proceeds to straighten things out.Just to add to the charm of the movie are Roseanne Arquette, Tanya Roberts prior to their fame. Not to mention PJ Soles who carries a lot of the movie.Also added to the movie, to, I guess, help make you feel like you're at a beach, are intermixing shots of people walking in front of the action in their bathing suits, every couple seconds.

Before the opening credits someone told the lead to take a vacation, and this movie undoubtedly is. It's not Zuma beach. Just a day on Zuma beach. Fun day to be specific.It looked like they hired 2 guys. One to write the beach's glee. And another to write the unnecessary unrelated talkative scenes in between. I mean don't ask what was the main theme, since seriousness was totally out. The whole thing is about having a nice time. At one indicative moment one guy tells the rest about his old man who's interested in the Middle Eastern crisis then in nanosecond the movie cuts to a close up of a girl's butt moving in rainbow-colored bikini. Enough opinion from the movie towards any seriousness ! It's not a musical beach movie a la the ones of the 1960s. Or a teen beach comedy as the ones of the 1980s. Actually, it's the tamest, less interesting, version of both. However it managed perfectly to be so attractive thanks to the sweet colorful cinematography, the good female bodies in bright swimsuits, the light songs, the sarcastic lines and Suzanne Somers's everything! It's where we not talk about the movie's elements but review the movie's dolls. And seriously they were all HOT! (Kimberly Beck) and her fascinating black bikini (where is such a gal ??), or (Rosanna Arquette) back when she was a hottie. Both were sexier than (Suzanne Somers). Though, who cares ?! The director loved them all. For instance (Lee H. Katzin) just filled up the screen with Somers's assets being all the time in that blue swimsuit, walking, playing and bending! The whole movie was a feast of eye candy. Well, a little feast. But a feast anyway!I wanted the bar's owner to be the storyteller of the story, but there wasn't any. I wanted interesting characters, but there was only a smile.. a beauty.. then a kiss. So who needs characters ? Hence I wanted more beauties (yes, I'm that greedy!) but this is what it is. A TV movie after all. And if they made it just for exploiting Somers's stardom back then, getting ratings, then they hit the mark.My big finish : It's the 1970s's fluff TV at its gayest moment, the last time I saw (Somers) as sexy, and while it's surely not a great movie; it's great as hot time.

I was 15 when this ABC movie of the week came out. Miss Somers being hot off the second season of Three's Company and growing in popularity, was adorable in this beach movie. Shot on the West Coast, the scenery was breathtaking. In 1978, i'm sure that executives at ABC must have wanted to capitalize on this 'Blonde of the hour' but giving her this role. Her acting in this movie was fine. It wasn't a comedy like Three's company, but it was more on relationships and the coming of age with these teenage kids. I liked the way she talked to the teenagers, she was some kind of mother figure to them. Anyway she was real pretty and really approachable. I like Suzanne Somers, i think of all the sex bombs of the 70's she's the one that aged most gracefully.

'Zuma Beach' is strictly a jiggle-and-giggle flick, as one commentator once put it so aptly, designed to get TV ratings and nothing more. Suzanne Somers was in the midst of her successful (and horrible) network series 'Three's Company' at the time this was made and the idea was to strike while the iron was hot.Somers plays some kind of rock singer, believe it or not, who is experiencing a career crisis of sorts and comes out to the beach to clear her mind and look for inspiration, or something like that. The local high school beach boys just about lose their minds when they see her stretch out on the beach, though I find their own bikini-clad girlfriends such as Rosanna Arquette, Kimberly Beck and P.J. Soles a lot sexier. Somehow all their lives get intertwined, and through making sand castles and playing volleyball Suzanne somehow manages to instill self-confidence and worth in a number of these youths while finding new inspiration for her own career. Amazing.This is the type of empty entertainment that one can find enjoyable from time to time even if it's only because it gives you a good laugh. Some of the faux-Beach Boys songs on the soundtrack may have you and your dog howling at the screen together, though.