Ann-Margret is everything that is right about this movie. The characters played by Dick Van Dyke and Janet Leigh try their best to add interest, largely to no avail. It's a satire on the '60s, but was made in 1963 before The Beatles and Bob Dylan (and others) would make art out of rock n' roll. And the thing in the film requiring more "suspension of disbelief" than is, frankly, humanly possible is: Paul Lynde plays the father of Ann-Margret's character. Whaaa? This 5/10 movie gets an extra point for ... uh, well ... Ann-Margret singing from the beginning AND also at the very end.
Review of Bye Bye Birdie
