Documentary filmmaker Bruce Brown, himself a competition-level surfer, follows surfers Michael Hynson and Robert August on an around-the-world surfing adventure. With Brown's wry, sardonic narration and a twangy, guitar-driven instrumental soundtrack by The Sandals playing over the silent footage, Mike and Rob leave their California home to visit Hawaii, Australia, South Africa and other secluded surfing spots in a search for the surfer's holy grail that Brown dubs "The Perfect Wave.
The Endless Summer has generally received very positive reviews.
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The Endless Summer was released in 1966 and has generally received very positive reviews.
Online reviewers have written 144 reviews, giving The Endless Summer (1966) an average rating of 80%.
Overall, cinema-goers prefer the movie, giving it an average score of 90%, compared to film critics, who gave it a lower average score of 77%. Amateur reviewers were more impressed with The Endless Summer than critics were.
With a score of 80%, The Endless Summer is above the average Cinafilm score for movies made in 1966, which stands at 59%.
Other movies from 1966 with similar scores include films like It's the Great Pumpkin, Charlie Brown and Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf?.
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