Sara Paxton in a bikini is just what a predictable shark film needs. She'll spend the entire film in the bikini thrusting her chest and pelvis and dripping wet in either sweat or swamp water. Sure this film has twists, but you horror enthusiasts will see them coming from a mile away. There will be hunks and babes who will serve no other purpose than to be shark food. Sara Paxton, however, she'll wear that bikini so well, we'll pull for her very unsympathetic character to survive. Today we look at 2011's "Shark Night 3D," directed by David R. Ellis.
Some Tulane University students are going on a long weekend to Sara's parents vacation home in the bayou. I know, go to Gulf Shores or Destin, instead. No...these idiots voyage into an island oasis in the swamp. Uh oh...Sara's ex-boyfriend Dennis (Chris Carmack) is still living in the swamp and is not happy to see Sara is sweet on college boy Nick (Dustin Milligan). Also along is the sultry Beth (Katharine McPhee) who gives us some nice strip scenes and bikini scenes. Her cleavage is key in this plot... really! Okay, the kids begin having fun. Sara sunbathes in that bikini while the rest of them go waterskiing. The sharks eat throw-away babe Maya (Alyssa Diaz) and bite her BF's, Malik (Sinqua Walls), arm off. Now Sara and Dennis try to get Malik trauma help as he bleeds out. Here comes Dennis and fellow redneck Red (Joshua Leonard). They are too helpful and have dastardly deeds planned for Sara and friends.
Okay, Dennis and Red do all sorts of awful stuff to Beth after making her strip. She'll be humiliated by these two brutes and fed to eel like sharks. So sad, but while she lasted, Katharine McPhee was some nice eye candy. Soon Sara, her new BF Nick, the dying Malik, and Blake (Chris Zylka) realize the shark, or sharks, are the least of their problems. Red and Dennis prove to be lunatics with shark fetishes and this won't bode well for the bikini babe and her surviving friends.
Will Sara the bikini babe survive the sharks and her old boyfriend? Did the makers of this film goof badly by feeding Katharine McPhee to the sharks when a good bikini catfight could have occurred between her and Sara? Does a dripping wet and thrusting bikini role for Sara Paxton count as her magnum opus? Stupid, gratuitous, and flowing with blood, cheese and beef, "Shark Night 3D" is a fun summertime movie.
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