Instead, what audiences have got is a film 'dead in the water', a premise that was 'all washed up' after the umpteenth Jaws rip-off in fact, in terms of quality, the series of budget killer shark films in the Shark Attack family are closer to Spielberg's epic than Shark Night is! - and a narrative that 'drowns in disappointment' (I could go on, there's literally hundreds of cheesy metaphors to be used in relation tot his film!). This quintessentially sums up the intelligence behind the narrative of the film, a prospect that was certainly deemed to have enough potential to get a green light from studio execs. However, perhaps even more offensively than this, the film very much plays into 21st century Hollywood's stereotypical depiction that the rural areas of the US's southern states are a location to fear, and as such, audiences are expected to believe that not only are all the locals stark raving loons, but that they're so mental they've managed to get their hands on multiple breeds of man-eating sharks. The group of college kids couldn't get more stereotypical: there's the pretty, virginal blonde Sara ( Sara Paxton), the slightly geeky but ultimately heroic Nick ( Dustin Milligan), the sexy grungy slut Beth ( Katharine McPhee), the token black athlete Malik ( Sinqua Walls), the token bolshy Hispanic chick Maya ( Alyssa Diaz), the arrogant and overly vain 'lady-killer' Blake (Chris Zylka) and the zoned-out perpetual college loser Gordon ( Joel David Moore). The film's second problem is the extent to which it is reliant upon stereotyping. Essentially, to take the action and drama of Shark Night seriously, viewers need the IQ of a fish.for the rest of us, it's simply a lightly amusing way to pass 90 minutes. The closing sequence that sees Sara locked in a shark cage and submerged in the lake with a Great White out to get her seems completely ridiculous when it's obvious that she's skinny enough to swim between the gap in the bars (plus, surely shark cages were designed to be strong enough to keep sharks out.not weak enough to be mangled by a relatively large Great White butting it's head against the side?). Even attempts at suspense are entirely flawed by this complete lack of credibility. I mean, the island the lake sits in is naturally outside of any cell phone signal range and, of course, Sara's family couldn't possibly own a landline phone.yet, wait, the bad guys have broadband capabilities.in a SHACK!? The absurdity of the films plot means that viewers will find it impossible not to fall about laughing at the entire shamble. There was only ever one way for Shark Night to really go: back down to the depths from whence it came.and that was obvious from the theatrical trailer alone! Along similar lines to the equally poor Piranha 3D offering from 2010, Shark Night's real problem is the extent of absurdity within it's narrative and the level of disbelief that it expects audiences to suspend. But as they set out in a tiny speedboat, the college friends discover the lake has been stocked with hundreds of massive, flesh-eating sharks! As they face one grisly death after another, Sara and the others struggle desperately to fend off the sharks, get help and stay alive long enough to reach the safety of dry land.
Assuming the injury was caused by a freak wake-boarding accident, the group realizes they have to get Malik to a hospital on the other side of the lake, and fast. But when star football player Malik stumbles from the salt-water lake with his arm torn off, the party mood quickly evaporates. Arriving by boat at her family's Louisiana lake island cabin, Sara and her friends quickly strip down to their swimsuits for a weekend of fun in the sun. Rating: 2 If you loved Piranha 3D with a passion, you need to head straight down to you local Blu-ray emporium to check out today's release of Shark Night 3D! Everybody else.sink into the depths of our review below.
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