Wonderful character development!

Surprisingly incoherent and boring

The performances transcend the film's tropes, grounding it in characters that feel more complete than this subgenre often produces.

The movie turns out to be a little better than the average. Starting from a romantic formula often seen in the cinema, it ends in the most predictable (and somewhat bland) way.

Okay middle aged version of a Beach Party film has tourist Tony Curtis visiting California and run off the road by Claudia Cardinale, who then takes him back to her place, where a French style bedroom farce ensures. These kooky 20 and 30 somethings encounter crazy Californian surfers, bodybuilders, skydivers, and other assorted kooks. The film is never boring, but it's also never all that funny or clever either. One of the positives for the film is a supporting role by Sharon Tate, who's gorgeous and again had a terrific screen presence, reminding us of of what a loss the world had with her murder. Overall, if you want a lightweight comedy to the pass the time (which you'll completely forget about once it's over), you could do worse than "Don't Make Waves."

Everything looks good, especially the stars, in this wacky comedy, but it ultimately becomes muddled and fails to deliver. Curtis plays a transplant to California from the east coast who has barely set foot outside his car when fiery artist Cardinale manages to destroy practically everything he owns, including most of his clothes! She takes him back to her beach pad so that he'll have a place to sleep while she looks into the insurance matters, but for some reason her married sugar daddy Webber isn't too keen on the idea! Curtis decides to con Webber in order to get a job and make money while flirting with Cardinale, though he also has his eyes on (and who wouldn't?!) shapely, bikini-clad Tate who lives in a bus with some hippies on the nearby beach. Somehow it all winds up in a snazzy house, which is slowly sliding down the face of a mountain as the people inside sort out their romantic issues. Curtis is in great shape here (he's frequently shirtless or in blue shorts) and tries hard to make a strong comedic impression. Unfortunately, he is just, like the others in the cast, undone by a haphazard and rather aimless script. Cardinale is sexy and curvy and also looks terrific, but her character is uneven and she hasn't exactly mastered English completely. Webber is perfectly cast as a demanding and sneaky businessman. Barnes plays his rather brittle wife. She has bangs that cover the better part of her face and her character isn't very well developed. Draper plays a big, blonde lug of a bodybuilder. One real treat here is the unbelievably luscious Tate as a character called Malibu. Impossibly tan with golden hair, she actually was the inspiration of the later "Malibu Barbie" and it's one case in which the real thing outdid the questionably proportioned plastic one. Like many others in the film, her talent is squandered and she's mostly used for her looks, but tremendous looks they are. Backus and his real life wife enjoy themselves in a cameo while Bergen has a small role as spiritualist. The opening sequences of the film are engaging and promising. However, as the storyline begins to play out, it all becomes very tiresome and convoluted. By the time the big climax arrives, viewer interest is at a pretty low ebb. The everything-but-the-kitchen-sink disaster-style ending is sort of like some of Blake Edwards' more desperate cinematic products. The effects in it range from so-so to cruddy. The film piddles out as if everyone got tired and decided to end it on the spot.

Tony Curtis, Edgar Bergen, Sharon Tate????? While the first thirty minutes of this film are perhaps promising, the plot quickly becomes insanely silly.Perhaps the pedestrian direction of this film is predetermined by the fact that Filmways was the production company. One would expect no less from the makers of numerous mindless sitcoms of the 60s.Slow motion scenes of Sharon Tate bouncing about, and numerous shots of various California beefcake bodybuilders strutting their stuff, are interspersed with ridiculous, unrelated scenes of supposed comedy.The "introducing Sharon Tate" credit is dubious, considering she "debued" in FOUR films the same year, including "Valley of the Dolls." An experience to be missed.

This movie seems to have a lot going for it. The stunning photography of gorgeous Los Angeles; a charming theme song by The Byrds; two of the most beautiful women you could imagine , Sharon Tate and Claudia Cardinale; plus some funny folk in supporting roles. Strangely it misses. It just goes on and on with no laffs, and no particular purpose. Sharon , As in The wrecking Crew, proves she had great potential in comedy, and is so gorgeous you want to see more of her. So I would recommend this movie only for Sharon Tate fans. If you arent a fan, you will be disapointed as there is really nothing else here worthwhile. I waited to see the movie for a long time, and felt ripped off.