Spring Break Shark Attack
A young teenager travels to Florida, unknowing that a group of dangerous tiger sharks are ravaging the beach.
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- Cast:
- Shannon Lucio , Riley Smith , Justin Baldoni , Kathy Baker , Bryan Brown
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Yawn. Poorly Filmed Snooze Fest.
The film makes a home in your brain and the only cure is to see it again.
It is interesting even when nothing much happens, which is for most of its 3-hour running time. Read full review
This movie tries so hard to be funny, yet it falls flat every time. Just another example of recycled ideas repackaged with women in an attempt to appeal to a certain audience.
At first sight, you think that the film is going to be about blood- thirsty sharks hunting and killing lots of people as is the case with this genre. But this one is different: Sharks are only one sub-plot. Central to the theme of the film is an over-protected young teenager and her struggle to be an adult. Her father tracks every movement of her and boys are really into having sex with her in her spring break. Oh yes there are occasionally sharks as well, let's not forget!!! The film is 85 minutes long and I noticed that sharks only began to appear (except the opening scene of the film) at the 70th minute. I have every reason to believe that everyone watching this film was more concerned with what would happen to the guy who was almost dying to get it on with the girl, rather than how sharks would relate to the ending.I have seen many bad films that have sharks in it, but this is by far the most disappointing one.
Good points: Plenty of semi-nude pretty girls, blood and gore.... and that's about it, I'm afraid.Extremely weak story, good scriptwriters are apparently hard to come by.If the movie had better actors, I would rate it a B-movie.This movie makes "Twister" and "Day after Tomorrow" into Oscar candidates.Heck, if "Spring Break Shark Attack" were any worse, it would be rated as a weapon of mass destruction.Maybe it's time to invade Hollywood? Time to free the world from oppressively bad scripts, and put movie-destroying directors on trial for lowering the reputation of bad movies?Couch potatoes of the world, unite! Rise up against the brain-numbing machine of Hollywood ...... oh what the heck, just drink more beer.
I know it's a long shot but, just in case ANYONE ever wondered what a crossover between "Dawson's Creek" and the seventeenth sequel to "Jaws" would look like, here you have the answer! "Spring Break Shark Attack" is a pathetic and totally embarrassing TV-production that even makes recent shark-movie disasters like "Shark Attack" and "Megalodon" look like genuine masterpieces. This film is worse than you can imagine, with shallow characters, clichéd situations, ridiculous dialogues and some of the worst acting performances in cinema history. It's actually pretty funny, but the painful truth is that it wasn't at all meant to be funny. A fine selection of the most empty-headed, but nevertheless ravishing-looking teenagers meet up at a beach house in Florida to spend a spring break filled with parties, sunbathing and meaningless sex orgies. Little do they know, however, that a naughty businessman of the lesser popular East coast is luring bloodthirsty sharks to the beaches, hoping that tourists would come his way. Things get just a tad bit out of control when hundreds of hungry tiger sharks literally sink their teeth into the partying students. Danielle and her friends have to stop wondering for a second about which bikinis they should wear and focus on how they'll get back to school in one piece, once spring break is over. The very few sequences that involve shark attacks are hilarious, simply because footage of running and screaming girls is altered with scenes from National Geographic documentaries that are simply edited into this movie! We get an underwater close-up from a shark and then we see how people hysterically run towards the beach, pretty much like in those cheesy and low-budget Italian Jaws rip-offs from the late 70's/early 80's. The rest of the script is textbook teenage nonsense, with beauty queen contests, boyfriends cheating on their girlfriends and losing virginity at a drunken party. Only minutes after an intense shark incident at the open sea, the girls worry about their hair and nails again. Pure guff.
Over the years there have been numerous movies that have been about sharks and/or shark related topics.Past movies have been pretty far fetched and unable to uphold the standards to the original JAWS classic. The story line of Spring Break Shark Attack is very believable and deals with many issues from family and friendship issues to environmental problems, which makes the movie exciting, as well as makes you think about the movie as a fearful reality. The cast is absolutely wonderful especially the character of Danielle,played by Shannon Lucio,the girl next door type, who sneaks off to Springbreak as a naive girl who finds through daily events, a transformation to a young lady.