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Baywatch

2017

Seth Gordon

Dwayne Johnson, Zac Efron, Alexandra Daddario, Priyanka Chopra ...

4.1

9,277

Action. Comedy Baywatch is the Paramount’s big screen take on the 1990s television series about California lifeguards. The story centers on a by-the-book and very serious lifeguard (Dwayne Johnson) who is forced to team up with a young rule-flouting hothead (Zac Efron) in order to save their beach from environmental destruction at the hands of an oil tycoon.

	Author	Review
United States	Owen Gleiberman Variety	"A stupidly entertaining trash folly (...) [It] manages to repackage every aspect of the series except, perhaps, the reason it was popular in the first place."	NEG
United States	Frank Scheck The Hollywood Reporter	"Boobs, butts and pecs — you were expecting Shakespeare? (...) A big-screen reboot so lifeless and mechanical that even its end-credits out-takes are not amusing, Baywatch proves much less than the sum of its undeniably attractive body parts."	NEG
United States	Jude Dry IndieWire	"If you look beyond the dick jokes, 'Baywatch' is actually pretty fun (...) [It] won’t blow anything out of the water (...) but it will certainly make a splash."	NEU
United States	Alonso Duralde The Wrap	"Torn between being a hard-R comedy, a coming-of-age story or a straight-up reboot, this film fails at all three (...) The cast feels mostly adrift"	NEG
United Kingdom	Steve Rose The Guardian	"A limp big-screen update of the 90s TV show that doesn’t have the wit or stamina to stay afloat (...) I felt like I was drowning in a sea of boredom (…) Rating: ★ (out of 5)"	NEG
United Kingdom	Nick De Semlyen Empire	"Tonally, 'Baywatch' veers all over the place like a drunk on a speedboat, making for one of the most lacklustre comedies of the year so far (…) Rating: ★ (out of 5)"	NEG
United Kingdom	James Luxford Radio Times	"Brainless, broad, and a little bit crude, 'Baywatch' nevertheless succeeds by putting its tongue firmly in its cheek and charming its way through (…) Rating: ★★★ (out of 5)"	POS
United Kingdom	Kevin Maher The Times	"[It] captures its beach porn aesthetics in full glory, but there’s little else to it (…) Rating: ★ (out of 5)"	NEG
United Kingdom	Tim Grierson Screendaily	"Seth Gordon isn’t an incisive enough director to satirise or relish the buffoonery on display (...) The film may pretend it’s more sophisticated than the show that spawned it, but its comedic stylings are alarmingly regressive."	NEG

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