Baywatch

Baywatch

5.5 out of 10

Anyone going to see a movie based on pretty much any 80s tv show is not going for an intricate plot. That goes double for the cheesy beefcake tv show Baywatch.  Pam Anderson was fun to look at but not really worth sitting through many episodes.  With Baywatch the movie we get very little plot and again lots of beefcake.

The modern day Mitch Buchannon is now played by Dwayne Johnson. The ultimate hunk.  The first part of the movie is Mitch and his number two CJ (Kelly Rohrbach) needing to fill three empty spots on the Baywatch squad.  Former Olympic swimmer and bad boy Matt Brody (Zac Efron) is forced upon Mitch by his supervisor.  This leads to some of the funniest parts of the movie with Mitch calling him by boy band names.

The second half of the movie takes a bit of a dive.  Centered around Victoria Leeds (Priyanka Chopra from tv's Quantico and the reason I paid eight bucks to see the movie) the bad girl who is smuggling drugs into the bay to finance taking over all the hotels in the area.  I wouldn't be surprised if this storyline was lifted by one of the tv scripts.  They could have done much better.

Overall I thought the movie had some laughs.  Fun seeing the life of a California lifeguard. I was mildly entertained.  If you have a rainy day and want a few laughs this one is not that bad.  Otherwise a good rental.