Greenzombidog

(2012-04-30 21:17:14)

Too young for Piranaha 3D? Heres Sharknight 3D

I went in to this movie expecting something as outrageous as Piranaha3D so I was a little disappointed at how tame it was in comparison.A group of kids go to a lake house for some bikini and briefs waterbased fun. This all goes awry when they discover the sharks who arechilling out in the waters nearby. Add to this the two back water goonsand the irresponsible sheriff and you just know the waters aren't goingto stay clear for long.From the beginning of the movie I was wondering how they were going toexplain the sharks being there. I actually thought that the storybehind that was a pretty good Idea when it's explained and broughtsomething new to the killer shark sub genre.The acting was pretty solid throughout, not that it matters as the kidsare just there to look pretty and be eaten. The sharks seemed to bedone almost entirely with CGI which I found a little disappointing butthey still looked great.Where Shark night 3D fell short of other killer fish features was thegore. If you make a movie about killer sharks you've got to show peoplegetting mauled by the sharks. It's not enough to see them thrashedabout from above the water. There are a couple of cool scenes where oneof the sharks leaps out of the water to drag a victim under but nothingmore brutal which was a real shame. Also considering all the flesh onshow there was surprisingly no nudity. If you like that sort of thing.Shark night is by no means bad, just at times it felt like a missedopportunity. I enjoyed it as a great fun popcorn movie.

juiceman10712

(2012-04-30 06:12:49)

Lame and tame.

I was not expecting something as enjoyable or over the top as lastyear's Piranha 3D but I was at least expecting some time killing sharkattack fun. It seems however that they couldn't even pull that off.The script is horrific and the plot is ho-hum but more importantly,takes way too long to get going. Every character is dull and hollow andthe stale acting doesn't help. But in all honesty this could beforgiven had the film actually delivered on what was expected. There'ssurprisingly very little in the way of shark carnage. The PG13 ratingmeans death scenes mostly consist of some flailing in red water. Otherdeath scenes are almost completely off-screen. I'm not a gore fanaticbut when the film has nothing else going for it, this could have easilysaved it to a degree. They don't even capitalize on the 3D. There werea few genuinely creepy moments in the film that actually made me wantto cover my eyes (something I haven't wanted to do in over 15 years)butthese are so few and far between. I longed for more of these but thefilm seems to be too interested in silly melodramatic plot. The filmalso just takes itself way too seriously to the point where it justisn't fun to watch... which is all you'd be wanting going into a 3Dhorror movie about sharks.It's a cheap attempt to cash in on the success of 'Piranha 3D' butwithout the tongue-in-cheek self-awareness or over the top gorythrills, there's very little to recommend in 'Shark Night 3D'. It couldhave worked as a campy throwback or It could have even worked as a moreserious horror movie because I did feel uneasy at times but it reallydoesn't do either any justice.

Moustafa_Q

(2012-04-29 23:33:05)

Awesome PG-13 violence!

A splendid PG-13 film and a profound PG-13 experience. A masterpiece ofgood, old fashion PG-13 style, violent, dramatic, subtle, touching,beautiful, delicate, cruel, mixture of deep emotions and slices ofcompletely "family-friendly" gore. PG-13 atmosphere and charmingacting. Brilliant dialogs and a form of elenchos method. And the art todefine the life as magnificent web of facts, gestures and desires.I saw this film as a catharsis exercise. In many forms, for me, thisfilm is a way in my subconscience. An occasion to discover answers atold personal questions, to feel the touch of an old lady which was morethan a special presence,nostalgic recollection,best friend orcollection of virtues but a piece of sense of life. In same measure,inside the purling of memories, important was the image of great SaraSara Paxton. Not like an amazing actress but as master of a worldnuances, with shadow of mystery and essence of gestures.Ms. Paxton is testimony of splendid Old Hollywood tradition but, inthis film, the importance of avoiding shark attacks, in a subtlemanner, a circle in acting with Dustin Milligan is more than element inchain of "Mansquito", "Seed of Chucky", "Sharktopus" or "ChromeSkull:Laid to Rest 2". It is not only good work but proof of a fascinated artand splendid professionalism. And not for the role of Dustin Milliganbut for the delicate reflection of Ms. Paxton's (wholly PG-13ish)acting.A splendid PG-13 film . Romance, drama, sea mammals devouring landmammals, PG-13 sensibilities, trip in the respiration of PG-13feelings.

eric1

(2012-04-29 09:01:43)

Surprisingly good 3D quality

The story is the same old tale: a bunch of kids went to the field, gethunted by some big bad thing, knocked off one by one, (usually thelatino or black dude went first). What made Shark Night different, isthe underwater 3D effect,water splashing, shark and dog swimming(BTW,the dog was the only character I worried about). After I googled it, itappears that this one was shot with real 3D camera. It's a shame thatthey put all this great equipment and technology to shoot such an oldclichГѓВ©. I won't recommend this movie to horror movie fans, but if youwant to see some decent 3D clips, this one is the best of summer 2011,where so many fake-3D ended the 3D mania Avatar started.

Tony Heck

(2012-04-29 02:32:14)

A disappointing movie that took itself too serious. If it was more cheesy and fun like Pirana would have been better. I say C

"Somebody do something!" When a group of friends decide to take avacation on the beach they think they will find paradise. Things govery very wrong. When the attacks begin secrets are revealed. I have tosay that this movie is a big disappointment for me. For some reason Ilove all the cheesy sci-fy channel movies like "Megashark vs. GiantOctopus", pretty much movies that are so over the top cheesy and badeffects but are made that way are fun to watch and make fun of. I washoping this would be more like "Pirana". A movie that is more comedythat anything and one you can watch and laugh at how bad it is. Thisone was none of those things. The problem with this one is that ittried to put in a plot and act like a real movie. When someone goes tosee a movie called "Shark Night" you go in looking for shark attackscenes. There were a few memorable scenes but this one was more aboutgetting revenge on someone from a few years before. If you are lookingfor a cheesy fun movie like "Pirana" this is not it. This is moreserious. Overall, a disappointment for me because it wasn't cheesyenough. I give it a C.

oneguyrambling

(2012-04-28 06:48:56)

Sharks have a bad enough rep without being associated with films like this.

Shark Night never harboured aspirations of being Jaws 2011, which is agood thing, as any film that does is doomed to failure and backlashfrom a film community still content with the first one.But I didn't want Jaws 2011, I wanted a silly, gory, ridiculous flickwith nature finally getting its own back on humanity for 90 minutes orso. Unfortunately the most joy I felt last night was walking up to thecounter and exclaiming 'Two for Shark Night please', because everythingafter was at best bland and often atrocious.Shark Night is deliberately shlocky and low budget, and features a castof nobodies and the most familiar of horror movie settings: 7 collegekids head off for a weekend of booze, parties and 'fraternising', thenthings go awry. That too doesn't need to be a bad thing, in fact manyof those factors can be pluses if handled correctly. The last twodecades have given us Anaconda, Deep Blue Sea and last year's Piranha,none of them great films, but all memorable and worthy of discussionwhen 'animal attack' movies come up.All we as a movie-going public want is a decent menacing creature, someinventive kills, a few chuckles and – if there's time - some nubileyoung skin. We don't care if the stars of the movie are dodgy fakelooking CGI and equally dodgy fake looking boobies, we want our 80minutes of eating popcorn and laughing guilt free at things that wouldbe horrible if they happened in real life.Unfortunately Shark Night either forgot or decided to ignore the ruleshalf way in. This is not a Piranha type fun gore 'n' skin flick, thisis something else altogether, something that will be forgotten in 12months.From memory the first half of the film goes just like this: Openingchomp. Credits. Inane dialogue. Bikini babes. Gormless guys. Inanedialogue. Get in car. Meet the locals. Chomp. Bikinis. Beefcake.Bikinis. Chomp. Explosion. Hysteria. Bikinis. Bikinis. Bikinis.I might have mixed a chomp and bikini somewhere but you get the gist,the film is set up for some mindless fun, where sharks can not onlykeep pace with speedboats hurtling along at full tilt but they canactually get alongside and ram them. Where at one point a bikini cladlass is trapped underwater for so long that you must start to wonder ifher brain cells might start dying through lack of oxygen, before youswiftly realize that with these kids that wasn't a big problem…Unfortunately shortly after they 'meet the locals' a second time thefilm takes an unwelcome turn, because in this case the locals I referto aren't actually the sharks but real, walkin' (sorta) talking'redneck locals. Perhaps most troublingly locals who google.Let me be perfectly straightforward, the film was hardly creative tothis point, but the sudden dip in quality from this point on is simplybreathtaking.I won't 'spoil' this film (the scriptwriter and filmmakers did thatalready) but what was threatening to turn out to be big dumb funquickly lost any rights to the use of the word 'fun', and we know whatthat leaves… Might I finish by simply saying if you have a film with abunch of hot chicks drinking and cavorting, surely there is a betterjustification for near nudity than implied rape? When 'fun' turns to'mean' in the blink of an eye, it's time to go home. Or if you haven'tseen Shark Night, perhaps stay there, this crap won't make you happyyou went out.Final Rating – 3 / 10. Sharks have bad enough reputation without beingassociated with films like this.

Scarecrow-88

(2012-04-27 14:15:41)

Shark Night 3D

Look, I try to give any movie, like the PG-13 Shark Night 3 D, thebenefit of the doubt despite this preconceived notion that it willprobably stink. For a lot of horror fans, shark movies are like chum,we see blood, or the potential of blood, in the water with a ravenous,man-eating water predator on the rampage, as petite female and buffmale bodies serve as menu options, and we can't help ourselves. I putthe blame on Spielberg and Peter Benchley with Jaws. Every since this77 classic hit theaters, VHS, and DVD, horror fans seem attracted tothe recycled killer shark formula.In the bayou, Tulane students go on a summer trip to one of the group's(Sara Paxton) lake estate and for some reason sharks of all varietiesare loose and hungry. Anytime college kids go to a lake summer homeit's a recipe for disaster, especially with freaky rednecks and afishing trawler who are secretly killing off victims for an internetreality snuff program filming the murders for the audience willing topay top dollar. CGI sharks galore and PG-13 violence, Shark Night(which takes place primarily during the day which tells you right awaythat all is not right with this movie) eschews the usual booze-partyingand sex, having the African American star linebacker (Sinqua Walls)losing an arm while wave-riding gets hurt by a shark right away. Losingblood fast, he needs to go to a hospital, but the group is out in themiddle of bayou country so their predicament is grave, to say theleast. Chris Carmack and Joshua Leonard (the latter recognizable tofans of The Blair Witch Project) are a pair of repellent hick creepswho seem to be just antagonists, at first, later revealing theirsinister natures to great length at the expense of former American Idolstar Katharine McPhee (groomed for stardom for the NBC Broadway series,SMASH) and wise-cracking Joel David Moore (fun during his time in themovie). The huge sharks leap out of the water as if they were dolphins.None of the characters, including Paxton (the movie goes out of its wayto establish that she is now a woman, as Sara remains in bikinipractically the entire running time, not that I'm complaining, but itis rather apparent), are that interesting (I know, the charactersservice the film as chum for the water predators, but still I wouldlike to have some sort of interest in their welfare), but DustinMulligan (as the handsome nerd who is Paxton's love interest) is ratherresourceful and crafty (of course, the film has to have the "final guy"to come to the rescue of the "final girl"). I was quite amused at theconvenience of having a zippo lighter when Mulligan faced being tigershark lunch, and he seems able to swim freely throughout without barelya hint of danger. That's the problem, I don't think anyone believes (Isure didn't) that Paxton or Mulligan, despite the stack decked againstthem, will fall to either the Bayou scumbags or the sharks they"planted in the lake". Walls' behavior (going after a shark in revengefor the death of his sweetie or untying his body after his jet-skiingbro was about to get him to shore), in particular, is flat stupid, andthe villains seem to talk on and on as Paxton and Mulligan could havebeen annihilated in quick and brutal fashion. The movie will fallquickly out of the minds of those who watch it, I think, becausenothing about it is particularly that memorable except the villainswho, to their credit (Joshua is a real Redneck freakshow, with teethand hygiene, and filthy manners, the stand-out)certain to make yourskin crawl. The violence doesn't come close to the bloody goodsdelivered by Aja just recently with his Piranha remake, proving herethat tame CGI blood and lack of on screen grue doesn't help matters,either. Teasing the typical audience by having your female eye candyremoving their tops with their backs to the camera so you are left toimagine what their boobs look like just further illustrates that SharkNight is all about not delivering instead of giving the usual fans whatthey expect.

chris dimarino

(2012-04-27 08:42:22)

Great If You Like Sharks and Horror, Brutal if Not

Shark Night can be summed up without really watching the movie. Thetitle says shark and the cover has it in killing position. The onlyreal question of a theme movie like this would be: is it so good thatit becomes a cult classic VS. is it so poor that not even shark fansshould watch. The bottom line, it fits right in the middle.There aren't too many good parts in this movie, but not many bad. Itcarries along and builds the setup and eventually gets thru its horror.The actress have a lot of visual appeal and the production value is topnotch. The 3D in the title pushes that it is a polished movie. Theacting is marginal, with a great cameo by Donal Logue.The horror scenes aren't overly graphic and don't show too much. Itwins as a horror by just having the shark fin cutting thru the waterafter the victims, but it loses from a shark standpoint because itreally doesn't show much.I would recommend this movie to fans of both horror movies and sharks.

BOOGIEMAN-pN

(2012-04-27 02:33:28)

Greatly underrated

WoW ! Looking at all those terrible reviews makes me wonder did wewatch the same movie ? I mean, WHAT ELSE DID YOU EXPECT from a 'Snakeson a Plane' director ?!?! THIS is a good TRASH movie, 100 times betterthan "Machete", "Hobo with a shotgun" and similar (soft) horror flicks... I guess the problem must be that it isn't 100% OBVIOUSLY statedthat this is a TRASH MOVIE, like in afore mentioned two, so today'sAverage Joe's in audience couldn't figure it out by themselves. That'swhy I use UPPERCASE LETTERS, because most of you Joe Schmoe's doesn'teven read whole reviews. I say, this movie is at least better than the average of it's genre.Classic example of "expedition gone wrong" horror storyline. Smallgroup of friends on isolated island, getting dispatched one by one.There's even a twist in the plot. If only camera and editing were moredynamic, let's say for example, like in "My Super Psycho Sweet 16: Part2", this movie could've been even awesome.

lovecraft231

(2012-04-26 19:24:43)

Don't bite this Shark Bait

I tend to not review movies when they are in theaters. I think it'sbetter to do so when said movie is on DVD-I dunno why, I just do. Sowhen I saw "Shark Night" in 2011, I knew it would be bad-so bad itended up in my "worst of the year list", but until now, I've held outon reviewing it. So now that said movie is now available on the homemarket, let's get this show on the road.Sara Palski (the adorable Sara Paxton) and her pals Malik (SinquaWalls), Gordon (Joel David Moore), Beth (former "American Idol"contestant Katherine McPhee), Nick (Dustin Mulligan) Blake (ChrisZykla) and Maya (Alyssa Diaz) go on vacation at a lake house inLouisiana. In the process, then run into redneck goons Dennis (ChrisCarmack) and Red ("Blair Witch Project" actor Joshua Leonard, whosefound a fine second life in the world of indie and art house movies)and seemingly nice sheriff Greg Sabin (Donal Logue.) The big dangerhowever, is that the fresh water lake has sharks-and that the rednecksmight have something to do with them being there.It's weird to see that David R. Ellis directed this. Here is a man whopreviously directed "Snakes on a Plane", "Final Destination 2" and thefourth one. Here's a guy who knows how to take a potentially funconcept and run with it (well, not with "The Final Destination", butbeggars can't be choosers.) Here however, the movie plays the wholeconcept straight, with little in the way of personality, humor orthrills. It's a shark movie without any life-one that's so lame, eventhe folks at The Asylum would raise their noses at it. The whole thingis directed lifelessly, with no potential fun on display. The movieinstead goes with one of the biggest cardinal sins in horror-it playsit safe.Granted, part of that could probably be blamed on the PG-13 rating.It's obvious that the movie is trying to ride the coattails of movieslike "Piranha 3D." When you see a movie called "Shark Night", youimmediately expect coeds being munched on, female nudity and tons ofgore. With a PG-13 rating, it loses much of the impact it could have.Another advantage something like "Piranha" has over this is the factthat it was aware of it's own ridiculousness, and fully embraced it.This is a movie that has potential to be a commentary on realitytelevision with its "Rednecks use sharks to make a bloody web show"sub-plot, but instead it just becomes a morass of bad stereotypes andtiresome torture-horror tropes.Even more offensive is that much of the cast is actually made up ofgood actors. I've seen shows and movies where Leonard, Paxton, Mooreand Logue (who starred in the sadly short lived FX series "Terriers")have delivered good to great performances. Seeing them in this is justdepressing. I know they are better than this, and yes, I'm aware that ajob is a job at the end of the day and that actors have to make cash.But it's sad to see the wasted in crap like this.There is no reason whatsoever to watch "Shark Night", as it has plentyof sharks and no sense of fun. Besides, if you are going to make PG-13movie with sharks, make it about about a superhero shark, and it'scalled "The Shark Knight."

LinkGoku

(2012-04-26 13:43:38)

not great but not terrible either.

Let Me start off by saying that I don't think this movie deserves 10/10*s, I'd probably just give it 6/10, but at the moment it's at 3.9/10 soI'm voting 10/10 to try and get the rating higher.If Your looking for a serious and unpredictable horror film, then thisisn't it. But Shark Night is fun and honestly I was surprised by acouple parts. I can't bring myself to call this a horror movie, more ofan action flick.On the downside, You never really care about any of the characters, andthe movie is fairly clichГѓВ©d.On the upside, the effects are good, and story is surprisingly goodtoo.I would recommend Alexander Aja's Piranha over this. But Shark Night isstill pretty entertaining.

lovecraft231

(2012-04-25 22:59:51)

Don't bite this Shark Bait

I tend to not review movies when they are in theaters. I think it'sbetter to do so when said movie is on DVD-I dunno why, I just do. Sowhen I saw "Shark Night" in 2011, I knew it would be bad-so bad itended up in my "worst of the year list", but until now, I've held outon reviewing it. So now that said movie is now available on the homemarket, let's get this show on the road.Sara Palski (the adorable Sara Paxton) and her pals Malik (SinquaWalls), Gordon (Joel David Moore), Beth (former "American Idol"contestant Katherine McPhee), Nick (Dustin Mulligan) Blake (ChrisZykla) and Maya (Alyssa Diaz) go on vacation at a lake house inLouisiana. In the process, then run into redneck goons Dennis (ChrisCarmack) and Red ("Blair Witch Project" actor Joshua Leonard, whosefound a fine second life in the world of indie and art house movies)and seemingly nice sheriff Greg Sabin (Donal Logue.) The big dangerhowever, is that the fresh water lake has sharks-and that the rednecksmight have something to do with them being there.It's weird to see that David R. Ellis directed this. Here is a man whopreviously directed "Snakes on a Plane", "Final Destination 2" and thefourth one. Here's a guy who knows how to take a potentially funconcept and run with it (well, not with "The Final Destination", butbeggars can't be choosers.) Here however, the movie plays the wholeconcept straight, with little in the way of personality, humor orthrills. It's a shark movie without any life-one that's so lame, eventhe folks at The Asylum would raise their noses at it. The whole thingis directed lifelessly, with no potential fun on display. The movieinstead goes with one of the biggest cardinal sins in horror-it playsit safe.Granted, part of that could probably be blamed on the PG-13 rating.It's obvious that the movie is trying to ride the coattails of movieslike "Piranha 3D." When you see a movie called "Shark Night", youimmediately expect coeds being munched on, female nudity and tons ofgore. With a PG-13 rating, it loses much of the impact it could have.Another advantage something like "Piranha" has over this is the factthat it was aware of it's own ridiculousness, and fully embraced it.This is a movie that has potential to be a commentary on realitytelevision with its "Rednecks use sharks to make a bloody web show"sub-plot, but instead it just becomes a morass of bad stereotypes andtiresome torture-horror tropes.Even more offensive is that much of the cast is actually made up ofgood actors. I've seen shows and movies where Leonard, Paxton, Mooreand Logue (who starred in the sadly short lived FX series "Terriers")have delivered good to great performances. Seeing them in this is justdepressing. I know they are better than this, and yes, I'm aware that ajob is a job at the end of the day and that actors have to make cash.But it's sad to see the wasted in crap like this.There is no reason whatsoever to watch "Shark Night", as it has plentyof sharks and no sense of fun. Besides, if you are going to make PG-13movie with sharks, make it about about a superhero shark, and call it"The Shark Knight."

schofy

(2012-04-22 23:25:30)

1 hour and a half I will never get back

What a lame film, This makes Jaws 4 look good. Scream in a riversetting. The 3D was about the only thing good about this and for a filmwith the word Shark in the title I'm amazed how little of them appearin this movie. There are so many loose strings to this movie weresupposed to not notice because the screen is full of over acting tonedup hotties and the usual deliverenace style locals. In fact the dog isthe only one that comes out of this movie and please don't get mestarted on the most arial acrobatic sharks since deep blue sea. You cansee that they have tried to go down the hostel with a fish line but I'mafraid it fails and merely comes out a proper kipper.

mm-39

(2012-04-22 06:42:46)

not the best summer film!

3 D shark attack is not the best film of the summer! The name 3 D SharkAttack should be a dead give away for the quality of this movie! Thestory is about the people who put sharks in a lake and film the eatingpeople in order to make money. Cheesy film with 3 D effects. The 3 Dwas okay. Some 3 D effects like explosions were cool, while other partswere lame. Sometimes there was no real 3 D at all. Watch this movie forthe 3 D. I would not watch this film in 2 D. There were no big nameactors in this one. The bad guy's teeth were disgusting! The film useda lot of 80's heavy metal in it. I give this film a 6 out of 10 in 3 Dand 5 out of 10 in 2 D.

capone666

(2012-04-19 18:48:32)

The Vidiot Reviews...

Shark Night 3DMan, I hate shark night at the ballpark. Last time I couldn't see thegame on account of the stupid whale shark someone brought.Fortunately, this is a horror movie about a shark outbreak and not someoutlandish theme-night.In need of a break, university students (Katharine McPhee, Joel DavidMoore Sinqua Walls, Alyssa Diaz, Dustin Milligan, Chris Zylka) invadetheir friend Sara's (Sara Paxton) Louisiana summerhouse.But when a shark attacks their friend, their vacation becomes abloodbath.And when Sara asks her ex-boyfriend (Chris Carmack) to help them, heinstead reveals to her and her friends the man-made origin of thelake's shark infestation.Starting out as a cheap thriller, over time Shark Night's horrendousone-liners and insane plot form the foundation of a cult classic.As for sharks living in public lakes, if they can handle the highcontent of human excrement than more power to them. (Yellow Light)vidiotreviews.blogspot.com

MovieProductions

(2012-04-19 13:03:41)

The worst of the summer, possibly the worst of the year

* out of (****) (ROTTEN)With absent expectations, a fetish for sharks, and a desire for someexploitative cinema, how could this possibly fail? It does and when itdoes, it fails on every account. See, you can deliver what you promiseand still partially succeed. But when you can't even deliver on whatyou promise, that's when the credibility factor just takes a downwardspiral. With such an intimidating title, you'd think the film wouldeither be like a roller coaster ride (ala "Piranha 3D) or an unnerving,off-the-rails thriller ("Jaws"), but instead it ends up being neither.Going into the film, I was fully aware of the uncompromising drawbacksof gratuitous nudity and gore. While I was vastly disappointed towitness the butchered rating, I still gave the film a chance even withthe rancid reviews. Even on that account, it still sucked. The acting,expectedly lacking, lacks more. The story, which sounds like aninteresting premise, sinks. The direction, expectingly subpar, isincoherent. The kills, while weak may show some promise, fall flatter.And lastly, what a B-flick does best is entertain. This film can't evendo that. Sure it has the break-neck pace of an MTV reality TV show,certainly edited like one, every scene lacks in substance and the styleis too teeny bopper and shabby.Let me give you "Shark Night". Take "Jaws", remove everything greatabout that movie, replace the oldies with some hip, wet, and wildtwenty somethings, and add the break-neck pace like "Piranha 3D" andyou have this movie. All in all, this wasn't just the worst movie ofthe summer, it's one of the worst of the year. Never have I seen amovie this lazily and sloppily put together in a while. Oh wait, when'sthe last time I saw that? Back in '09 with David R. Ellis' "The FinalDestination". It's funny how both showed true signs of potential yetblew it, save for the decent 3D. The only decent movie the guy's doneis "Snakes on a Plane", but he even was only co-director. Nothing newhear to see folks. Yawn!

Paul Haakonsen

(2012-04-19 15:48:37)

It started alright, then it went downhill...

This movie started out so great, it had that whole "Jaws"-theme goingon, and it really looked like it was going to be a movie that would payhomage to the classic "Jaws" movies, then it all came crashing downhard and went downhill."Shark Night" is without a doubt one of the stupidest story lines Ihave ever seen in a shark movie. The whole plot was just so far-fetchedthat it didn't even come off remotely plausible. That whole"oh-you-hurt-me-years-ago-and-now-it-is-payback-time" plot didn't workat all! It was ludicrous and it really made the movie bad.Another thing that the movie had working against it was the darkness.Most of the movie was shot at night with little or no lighting at all,and you couldn't really see what was going on at times. That was solame. When you sit down to watch movies you don't want to be kept inthe dark and have little chance to see what's going on. Had they keptthe movie in daylight it would have worked so much better.As for the characters in the movie, well you hardly got to immerseyourself in any of the characters, aside from Sara (played by SaraPaxton) and to some extend Dennis (played by Chris Carmack). The restof the characters were nothing more than bystanders with shallowstories to contribute to the plot.The cast themselves were good, though. The people they had cast for thevarious roles actually did good jobs, and that was the main thing that"Shark Night" had working for it.Having seen "Shark Night" now I feel very disappointed and cheated outof my time, because this movie was disappointing on so many levels. Itis only once in awhile that there is a really nice shark movie to hitthe market, "Shark Night" however, wasn't one of them.And the ending of the movie, are you kidding me? Come on! I am notgoing to spoil it here by revealing it, but wow, that was an ending yousaw coming a mile away, and it was just so anti-climatic.

LoboDiNoccento

(2012-04-19 00:37:59)

My review of Shark Night 3D

Look I could easily give you a blow by blow of how stereotypical andunderdeveloped the characters are of how there is at no time in thisfilm character growth and development or character redemption takingplace or how ineffective the character acting was by the actors or howlame and overused and played out the scenes were Hell i could even talkabout the fact that shark films have been done to death but I'll save you the troublethis film was absolute GARBAGE!I thought this film was so bad I demanded from the theater my moneyback! and I got it!

Jan Strydom

(2012-04-17 12:45:48)

Not a terrible film but could have been better.

Its about time they brought out a killer shark attack movie that wasn'tjust another low budget direct to video or made for TV cheese fest butone that came out in theaters, even though SHARK NIGHT was in factreleased in theaters it is unfortunately not the kind of shark movie Ihad hoped to see in theaters, mainly because its too tame and doesn'thave a whole lot of suspense, keeping in mind this film is PG13 it wasalmost as if the producers were trying to cater to a certain type ofaudience with the wrong type of film.For instance the central characters are a bunch of college graduates intheir early to mid 20's so obviously this film was aimed at teenagersinstead of fans of killer shark films, in one way its not a bad thingin the other many people are not going to want to see a kids movie theywould want to see a suspense packed, fast pace and very intense sharkmovie and like I said SHARK NIGHT is not that movie.Overall, SHARK NIGHT isn't a terrible movie but its more of shark moviefor kids, all that we need now is a shark movie for adults.

wolverinejmc

(2012-04-16 14:49:10)

Shockingly horrible

A group of college friends are pursued by various species of sharks andredneck idiots in this horrendously bad theatrical "horror" film. Iwish that was all I could say about this film but it honestly offendedme. The story and background of all main characters were forced andhorribly acted, save Sara Paxton and Katherine McPhee, the latter beingthe hottest of the bunch( yes, I had to switch to superficial looks toremotely enjoy this). Paxton's character is adorable but herrelationship to the villains is just stupid, like an impossibly vapidDawson's's creek episode. the sharks do not fare well either in thiscinematic garbage.How did these sharks get here? God knows but Joel David Moore states atthe beginning of the film that "it's not impossible". Well there we gothen! The sharks themselves are pitifully rendered and evoke absolutelyno scares, just laughs. But is it enjoyable, comedic laughs I produce?No, it's a guffaw that I'm still sitting in my seat and not spearingthe screen.Two out of ten. One star each for the beautiful McPhee and Paxton. Therest can burn in hell.