Jokes made at the expense of pointing out Nick’s inability to approach women are never funny and near some homophobic territory. But what I found particularly irritating about this film is the sheer lack of momentum, humor, and gutsiness. ![]() It’s derivative, surely, pulling generic tropes from creature-features, slashers, and some slight revenge movie stuff. And did I mention sharks in the salt-water lake? Oh, yeah, the hillbillies put them there with cameras attached to them so they could sell snuff movies of sharks attacking people. Finally you got your hillbilly antagonists one of which, Dennis (Chris Carmack), has a passed relationship with Sara. Then you got your slutty/sex positive girl, douchey guy, nerdy guy (who is also oddly kind of a dick), and our token black guy who is only at college because he got a football scholarship (really?). ![]() Sara provides us with the aforementioned Roman bathhouse of decadence. Sara (Sara Paxton) is the former resident of the lakeside town and seemingly sex-neutral girl with a past (intrigue). Nick (Dustin Milligan) is our main protagonist medical student cum reluctant hero/lover boy. That’s really all you need in this and, frankly, that’s all you’re really going to get. We have a group of college friends who are off to one of the group’s family’s homes for an end of the year party. OH! And there are maniac hillbillies in there as well! Seriously, what could go wrong in a movie with a horde of sharks, college students, and hillbillies!? “3D” is a part of the official title as well, once again, playing up the film’s sensationalist qualities. It’s up front you know what you’re getting into. Like last year’s “Piranha” the film is marketed as that best sort of tongue-in-cheek-title-says-it-all kind of manner. Ellis directing, someone who should know the pitfalls and perils of constructing a “deliberately bad” movie after his experience with “Snakes on a Plane” and “Homeward Bound 2: Lost in San Francisco”. First, Let’s take stock of what all “Shark Night 3D” had going for it. ![]() This is less of a review and more of an autopsy on “Shark Night 3D” as a film but also the critical response to it.
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