I remember when this monstrosity was released. I was born in 1946 and was "in to" the Rock era by age 12. I remember the old "Lucky Strike Hit Parade" TV show, and how lame the music had gotten by 1955. The Hit Parade stars couldn't sing the new stuff, and their efforts to do so were pathetic. By 1958 they were washed up. The Rock Era, when it broke, was like opening the door to a breath of fresh air. All I could think then, and still think now, is that "Bye Bye Birdie" was written by a pair of old 1940's cranks who knew their jobs were about to end, and had decided to ridicule rock music as their last attempt at revenge. The music is awful and the "plot", if it can be called one, is even worse. It is, in my opinion, not a "cute" movie, but an obnoxious one. My young daughter, now fourteen years old, has seen the movie and her comment on it is "it's demeaning." The local high school is planning to perform it and she will have nothing to do with it.
Review of Bye Bye Birdie
