Spring Break Shark Attack

Spring Break Shark Attack

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Editorial Reviews

Kathy Baker ("Picket Fences"), Bryan Brown ("The Thorn Birds"), Shannon Lucio ("The O.C.") and Riley Smith ("New York Minute") star in this thriller about the invasion of a group of killer sharks on the Florida coast as a beach full of college co-eds enjoy their spring break from school. College girl Danielle (Lucio) lies to her parents about her spring break plans and sneaks away to the fun-filled beaches of Florida with her two best friends. Soon after arriving, she falls for Shane (Smith), a handsome young blue-collar local working to raise college money. While on vacation, Danielle seeks out her brother, Charlie (Wayne Thornley), a graduate student at the Florida Maritime Institute, whose thesis is on tiger sharks. Charlie cautions his sister to stay out of the water. He suspects that a large number of sharks are in the area due to a new artificial reef that was built to attract tourism. Caught up in spring break fun, Danielle forgets her brother's warning. However, on an overnight boat trip she and her friends are viciously attacked by a group of sharks. As they find their way to safety on an islet, the reality of the danger hits them even harder when the body of a friend washes ashore.

Customer Reviews

Top 1 movie of all time? or better?

Reviewed by THE wildcat, 2010-01-13

I would like to start this review off by saying that SBSA is possibly the greatest cinematic creation of all time. To anyone with a negative comment about this movie, I just don't understand where the criticism is coming from. The special effects in this movie are absolutely outstanding, the plot twists kept me on the edge of my seat, and the acting is top tier. I currently own a copy, and could not be happier. DON'T MISS YOUR CHANCE! Order yourself a copy of this piece of cinematic gold and you will find yourself one happy camper. For only $12 this is an absolute steal! Now I know what you're all thinking, this guy is nuts how could ANY movie be that good, well do yourself a favor and put those concerns aside I give my own personal guarantee that you will NOT be disappointed (guarantee not valid). Srsly, top 1 movie of all time...if not better. How can you NOT love spring break? AND SHARKS!! AND ATTACKS!!

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Sharks gone wild!

Reviewed by Robert P. Beveridge, 2009-07-28

Spring Break Shark Attack (Paul Shapiro, 2005)

There are good bad movies. We've all seen them, and we all have our favorites. (Mine? Night of the Lepus, Beware! The Blob, and Shriek of the Mutilated, among others.) But then there are bad bad movies, movies that aren't bad for any reason that makes them stand out, but are just collections of bad acting, cheap special effects, and predictable plot twists that are bad enough to be bad, but not bad enough to achieve that sort of glorious hideousness that makes a movie like, say, Kingdom of the Spiders stand out from the crowd.

So anyway, there's spring break. There are some sharks. There's a really, really hot lead actress, Shannon Lucio (Starkweather), and two guys who both want to get jiggy wit' dat (Eight Legged Freaks' Riley Smith is the good guy, The House Bunny's Justin Baldoni the bad guy). They all end up on a boat with some of the hot chick's friends when everything goes south. People, sharks, you know the drill.

In fact, you know the entire drill. I'd be willing to bet, if you've seen three or four movies like this, you can pretty much recite the litany of plot twists and be almost perfectly accurate. The acting is awful, the script doubly so. The only thing I can say in this movie's defense is that they didn't make the sharks superintelligent or genetically modified or anything else stupid. (half)

Shark movie or teen angst movie? Not good at either...

Reviewed by Robert Gamble, 2009-07-25

Ok, I'm not going to spend a lot of time reviewing this. Saw it on the Sci Fi Channel recently. Much of the movie makes you forget it's a shark attack flick, when a love triangle becomes the main focus, complete with a date rape angle. The really odd thing is that the 'bad guy' is portrayed as if the writers aren't sure whether he should be likeable or not. The actors do a decent enough job, but given what they have to work with it doesn't save the movie.

Then there's the shark attack angle. The sharks aren't badly done, and at least they don't "growl" as they do in most other SciFi shark flicks. The exploding geysers of blood after someone is dragged below the surface had me laughing rather than horrified.

Oh, and once again, sharks are apparently strong enough to drag a boat through the water. And this time, apparently they're coordinated and smart enough to all pull the chum basket in the same direction.

So what you end up with is a watered down movie with two completely separate aspects that don't mesh well together, and the shark attacks are poorly done.

Bites off a lot....

Reviewed by AngelFace, 2009-05-20

but no more than it can handle. I saw parts of this movie when it was originally on television. What I saw made me want to see the rest, and I was glad I did. It is a very entertaining movie - covering a lot of topics. Yes, it has a lot of action with the massive shark attacks, but also has romance, humor and drama. Worth watching.

GREAT FUN

Reviewed by F. Vonzerneck, 2007-01-10

A fast moviing, blue sky movie with great looking people & beautiful beach and open ocean photography. Great fun.