The Cool Ones (1967)
4/10
Forgettable Except For Roddy McDowell Fans
15 August 2016
Warning: Spoilers
The 1960's had a lot of movies made by adults trying to tap into the huge market of teenagers. While some of those movies are memorable, this one is not. While the cast is attractive, and the color of the film is good, the writer of this script never wrote another one. It is obvious why. There is little sense to make of what is going on.

Roddy is the star of this, and there are the usual supply of good looking women around. In fact, as a veteran director of two Elvis movies including Kissin Cousins is on hand, the movie feels like it is another Elvis movie, only without Elvis. Because of this, there is forgettable music and whoever wrote the music for this committed a capital crime. The music just is no good.

Mcdowell is the youth idol in this movie and as such seems to be just an oddball from the first moment on. If you think of a guy like Bob Denver trying to carry a movie of bad music and a supporting cast that is very little help, and a script that is poor at best, that pretty much sums up this one.
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