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Shark Night 3D (2011)

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Average Rating: 3.4/10
Reviews Counted: 63
Fresh: 10 | Rotten: 53

A joyless excursion into the water that doesn't even produce good gore or nudity thanks to the neutered PG-13 rating.

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Average Rating: 2.6/10
Critic Reviews: 10
Fresh: 0 | Rotten: 10

A joyless excursion into the water that doesn't even produce good gore or nudity thanks to the neutered PG-13 rating.

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Average Rating: 2.3/5
User Ratings: 27,409

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Arriving by boat at her family's Louisiana lake island cabin, Sara (Sara Paxton) and her friends quickly strip down to their swimsuits for a weekend of fun in the sun. But when star football player Malik (Sinqua Walls) stumbles from the salt-water lake with his arm torn off, the party mood quickly evaporates. 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 as they set out in a

PG-13,

Mystery & Suspense, Horror

Will Hayes, Jesse Studenberg

Jan 3, 2012

$18.9M

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Critic Reviews for Shark Night 3D

All Critics (63) | Top Critics (10) | Fresh (11) | Rotten (53) | DVD (7)

Shark Night, handled with impersonality by Snakes on a Plane pilot David R. Ellis, aspires to nothing more or less than carrying along an audience through a string of unremarkable kills, often involving high-jumping fish.

September 7, 2011 Full Review Source: Village Voice
Nick Pinkerton
Village Voice
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A second round is out of the question. Unless, of course, they called it "Gladys Knight 3D.'' Then all is forgiven.

September 5, 2011 Full Review Source: Boston Globe
Wesley Morris
Boston Globe
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The sharks are rubber and the performances are wooden and that's just about all you need to know.

September 5, 2011 Full Review Source: Toronto Star | Comments (12)
Linda Barnard
Toronto Star
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The result is a movie that isn't crummy, exactly, just blah: when the freakiest teeth on screen belong not to one of Walt Conti's animatronically realized sharks but to a good-ol'-boy called Red, you know you have a problem.

September 3, 2011 Full Review Source: New York Times | Comment (1)
Jeannette Catsoulis
New York Times
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Sharks have it bad enough as endangered, misunderstood predators with a terrible public relations image without seeing their serial-killing stardom drowned out by hammy acting and torture-porn villainy.

September 2, 2011 Full Review Source: Los Angeles Times | Comments (11)
Robert Abele
Los Angeles Times
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A ho-hum series of kills and lulls so predictable that it doesn't even look like much fun for the sharks; when they open wide, they might as well be yawning.

September 2, 2011 Full Review Source: Entertainment Weekly
Adam Markovitz
Entertainment Weekly
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Predictable. Disposable. Listless. Boring. This is not how you make great horror films.

March 21, 2013 Full Review Source: Cinema Sight
Wesley Lovell
Cinema Sight

The most disturbing sequence comes after the end credits, actually, when the actors are shown performing together on a really bad rap video.

February 15, 2013 Full Review Source: Georgia Straight
Steve Newton
Georgia Straight Source: Georgia Straight

This clearly isn't a film that wants to win awards for logic, so it dives head first in to just pure idiocy, and never comes back up for air.

November 16, 2012 Full Review Source: Cinema Crazed
Felix Vasquez Jr.
Cinema Crazed

Never mind that the film is never scary; it also is never much *fun*.

April 6, 2012 Full Review Source: TheMovieReport.com
Michael Dequina
TheMovieReport.com

Awful on nearly every level, but wholly entertaining as a laugh-out-loud party movie. Shark Night is dumb, but you probably won't care.

January 29, 2012 Full Review Source: IGN DVD
R. L. Shaffer
IGN DVD

This film falls apart in the deliberately bad character development which never quite registers as a joke but rather as a weak attempt at actually developing the characters.

January 22, 2012 Full Review Source: 7M Pictures
Kevin Carr
7M Pictures

In the end Shark Night is a feisty and enjoyable little package that you're guaranteed to get a few laughs and cheap thrills out of.

January 14, 2012 Full Review Source: Dread Central
Steve "Uncle Creepy" Barton
Dread Central

The end result is a horror effort that never becomes the guilty pleasure it clearly wants to be...

January 3, 2012 Full Review Source: Reel Film Reviews
David Nusair
Reel Film Reviews

full review at Movies for the Masses

December 26, 2011 Full Review Source: Movies for the Masses
Joseph Proimakis
Movies for the Masses

This is a pretty bad movie that (I think) knows it's a pretty bad movie. What keeps it from being even worse and entering into the useless 'torture porn' genre is its PG-13 rating, which teeters on the brink of 'R' territory throughout.

December 22, 2011 Full Review Source: KWQC-TV (Iowa)
Linda Cook
KWQC-TV (Iowa)

A bad taste frenzy, with cameras tied to the bellies of some beasts contained by crooks in a salt water lake.

October 6, 2011 Full Review Source: Birmingham Post
Graham Young
Birmingham Post

Enjoyably trashy Jaws/Piranha rip-off, enlivened by likeable performances and some impressive 3D effects, but the plot is laugh-out-loud ridiculous and there's an oddly prudish approach to gore and nudity.

October 5, 2011 Full Review Source: ViewLondon | Comments (3)
Matthew Turner
ViewLondon

Little more than a brain damaged, irony-free, and curiously toothless attempt to retread the success of last year's surprising summer gorefest, Piranha 3D.

October 2, 2011 Full Review Source: What Culture
Shaun Munro
What Culture

[Leaves] you with nothing more than a few poke-y moments and wistful memories of Piranha 3D.

September 27, 2011 Full Review Source: Total Film | Comments (2)
Ken McIntyre
Total Film

... a new movie genre: sharxploitation ...

September 19, 2011 Full Review Source: Sacramento News & Review | Comment (1)
Jim Lane
Sacramento News & Review

Disappointing, but diverting; I was expecting the man-eating hammerhead, but not the lecture on 'moral relativism' from the local sheriff.

September 12, 2011 Full Review Source: Commercial Appeal (Memphis, TN)
John Beifuss
Commercial Appeal (Memphis, TN)

Most lacking is any sense of humor or style in a film that aspires to mediocrity and achieves it all too easily.

September 10, 2011 Full Review Source: ColeSmithey.com
Cole Smithey
ColeSmithey.com

Shark Night is also not Jaws redux. It is more like a shark bite version of Friday the 13th.

September 9, 2011 Full Review Source: Jam! Movies | Comments (2)
Bruce Kirkland
Jam! Movies
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Shark Night 3D is a horrible film that is one of the most unoriginal pieces of crap I've seen in quite some time. David R. Ellis who made a previous nature gone wild theme horror film with Snakes on a Plane misses the mark entirely with this one. The films plot is nothing new, in fact it's predictable. We all know what happens with this one. The story is bad, the film rides on all the usual clichés, not to mention that the cast is awful and can't act. Ellis made a good film with Snakes on a Plane; it was a fine tribute to B movie comedy horror in my book. However with this one, it simply doesn't deliver the goods. After all those dreadful; Jaws sequels, you'd think they would stop with making bad shark films. Well, I guess they didn't learn their lesson. This film is just poorly made, with no heart and it's not even one of those films that are worth watching for a mindless night of dumb fun. As a horror film, it fails, this is stupid, pointless and overall a train wreck of a film. This so poorly crafted, so lazily made that you don't care for any character, in fact the only thing you care about is the end credits because at least now the horror of sitting through this film is over. This film never should have been made, and is not a good nature gone wild film. Watch the original Jaws for real shark terror and Joe Dante's Piranha for real fun. This simply doesn't deliver. Well it delivers on the mediocrity and it's something it has plenty of. This film might have succeeded if more care went into writing a consistent script, which is something that is clearly absent from this film. This is a film that is not worth your time, and there are far better films in the genre to watch. One of David R. Ellis' worst films, Shark Night is a cliché fest from start to finish simply designed to make a quick buck.
June 15, 2012
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Jeff "The Dude" Lebowski

Super Reviewer

Hmm. Sometimes you know a movie is going to be bad before you even watch it. This is especially true in the Horror genre. Even though the movie is crap, sometimes a few brutal kills and some good laughs will at least, make things entertaining. Then there's dog shit like "Shark Night". There is no redeemable quality to "Shark Night" at all. While watching the atrocity, I was constantly reminded that I was wasting my time. The movie was castrated from the get go. The asinine PG-13 rating extracted all of the adult content necessary to make a movie like this successful. The story is, of course. ludicrous and the effects are embarrassing. 3-D movies from the 80's would point and laugh relentlessly at what is offered here. Which is really insulting, considering they smear '3D' in the title. You might want to avoid "Shark Night".
February 3, 2012
Jason Calvin
Jason Calvin

Super Reviewer

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