Review of Baywatch (2017) by Weems — 30 May 2017

I didn't want the show, so I went into this movie banking on The Rock and Zac Efron. Not huge fans of either actor, but I've been fairly impressed with their comedies in the past. I was really hoping the movie would turn out like 21 Jump Street, but it didn't even come close.

Overall The Rock and Zac Efron had pretty good chemistry together, but they definitely could have been utilized more. Priyanka Chopra did a pretty good job as the villain, but outside of these things the movie was fairly awful.

The other characters in the movie were one dimensional and just felt more like props than anything else. They didn't really spend any time going into their back stories except for quick one liners to justify a character's knowledge or deliver a bad joke.

Some of the scenes in the movie also seemed unnecessary or lacked content. A good example from the trailer is the scene where Zac Efron is wearing the dress. The scene starts, Mitch/The Rock makes fun of him, they find what they are looking for and then the scene ends.

No one stops to stare at him, nor does it result in them getting caught, all it did was stress that his character was stupid, which had been confirmed multiple times prior to that scene. Scenes like this happened frequently throughout the movie.

A scene that appears to set up for something that will probably be hilarious and then nothing happens. TL;DR Skip the movie. Not enough humor to make the ticket price worth it. If Hollywood was banking on people showing up because of women in swimsuits and bikinis, clearly they are not aware of the internet.