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Baywatch

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When a dangerous crime wave hits the beach, the legendary Mitch Buchannon leads his elite squad of lifeguards on a mission to prove that you don't have to wear a badge to save the bay. Joined by a trio of hotshot recruits, including former Olympian Matt Brody, they ditch the surf and go deep undercover to take down a ruthless businesswoman whose devious plans threaten the future of the bay.
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Baywatch takes its source material's jiggle factor to R-rated levels, but lacks the original's campy charm -- and leaves its charming stars flailing in the shallows.

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Gary M. Kramer Salon.com Nov 17, 2017
The biggest disappointment of this feature is that it's not even so bad it's good. Go to Full Review
K. Austin Collins The Ringer Aug 10, 2017
The'Baywatch reboot is mildly diverting but altogether dull. Summer fun shouldn't feel like such a chore. Go to Full Review
Megan Garber The Atlantic Jun 16, 2017
Suffice it to say, too, that there's a lot of delight to be had in the frothy union of the Bay and the Watch, much of it coming from Johnson, who carries the whole of this movie on his epically chiseled lats. Go to Full Review
Don Shanahan Every Movie Has a Lesson Feb 16, 2024
3/5
Baywatch exchanges many of the soap opera-level character notes and story tangents of the TV show for gushingly over-the-top R-rated gags and blockbuster-level thrills. Go to Full Review
Swetha Ramakrishnan Firstpost Oct 10, 2023
In Baywatch, characters are introduced with style. But the storyline itself is routine, predictable. Go to Full Review
Matt Brunson Film Frenzy Aug 16, 2021
2.5/4
A movie based on a show about brain-baked lifeguards isn't going to stir memories of, say, A Man for All Seasons or The King's Speech or even Guardians of the Galaxy Vol. 2, but within its own parameters, Baywatch knows the territory. Go to Full Review
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Kadz S @RT01646324 May 27, 2025 I love the bay watch series. I am a lifeguard.
Kelly S @Kelly3 May 27, 2025 Acting was not the best.
Abraham S Apr 25, 2019 Zac's abs is the only thing that stays afloat.
Apr 18, 2019 Baywatch is a shallow, run-of-the-mill action "comedy" that fails to embrace the campiness of the TV show. I use the word "comedy" loosely because Batwatch isn't very funny. I laughed twice, maybe chuckled once, but cringed about three times, especially during the scenes with Jon Bass, who's the unfunny comic relief in the film. Not even the scene where his erection gets stuck in a beach chair was funny. It's a scene that reminded me of a much funnier scene in There's Something About Mary where Ben Stiller accidentally zipped up his scrotum. Dwayne Johnson and Zac Efron were pretty entertaining pairs on screen. I'd love to see them in a better movie together just as much as James Franco and Bryan Cranston, who also starred in an unfunny comedy that I wished was better. The rest of the cast didn't really get much to do, especially the female cast who were relegated to the sidelines, including Bollywood star Priyanka Chopra, who could've been better utilized in the movie. Baywatch aims for self-referential, meta humour in a similar vein to 21 Jump Street, which I guess is only funny if you've seen the TV show. But 21 Jump Street didn't just reference the show for laughs, it also satirized genre conventions to make it more accessible for non-fans. Apart from meta humour, Baywatch aims for American Pie-style shock humour, which has become pretty stale and tiresome at this point. There's a scene at the morgue where Zac Efron comes into contact with a dead body's penis, and they draw out that joke for far too long. Even the cameos were uninspiring. Pamela Anderson didn't even have a line, and David Hasselhoff had a better cameo in Guardians of the Galaxy 2. Even if you didn't know there were going to be cameos, Anderson and Hasselhoff are credited right at the beginning of the film. Baywatch isn't a terrible film (even though it was supposed to be), but the action scenes were boring and the green screen effects were awful. There's a scene where the Baywatch lifeguards have to save a couple of party girls from a burning boat, and the flames couldn't look anymore rubbish. Even if you didn't know it was filmed in front of a green screen (which couldn't be more obvious), the movie even has outtakes with Efron and Johnson in front of a green screen, and even the outtakes weren't very fun to watch. And if you're only interested in Baywatch for the babes, the lack of cleavage would have you wishing you was watching porn instead. See more
Kylo W Mar 29, 2019 i love the slow motion
Leia P Mar 17, 2019 dull, boring, not funny 1* for the High School Musical reference
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Synopsis When a dangerous crime wave hits the beach, the legendary Mitch Buchannon leads his elite squad of lifeguards on a mission to prove that you don't have to wear a badge to save the bay. Joined by a trio of hotshot recruits, including former Olympian Matt Brody, they ditch the surf and go deep undercover to take down a ruthless businesswoman whose devious plans threaten the future of the bay.
Director
Seth Gordon
Producer
Michael Berk, Douglas Schwartz, Gregory J. Bonann, Ivan Reitman, Beau Flynn
Screenwriter
Damian Shannon, Mark Swift
Distributor
Paramount Pictures
Production Co
Seven Bucks Productions, Paramount Pictures, Cold Spring Pictures, Contrafilm
Rating
R (Graphic Nudity|Crude Sexual Content|Language Throughout)
Genre
Comedy, Action
Original Language
English
Release Date (Theaters)
May 25, 2017, Wide
Release Date (Streaming)
Jul 10, 2017
Box Office (Gross USA)
$58.0M
Runtime
1h 56m
Sound Mix
Dolby Atmos, Dolby Digital
Aspect Ratio
Scope (2.35:1)
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