{"id":2153,"date":"2012-01-06T05:51:37","date_gmt":"2012-01-06T13:51:37","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.cinemastance.com\/?p=2153"},"modified":"2012-01-06T05:51:37","modified_gmt":"2012-01-06T13:51:37","slug":"shark-night-available-now-on-blu-raydvd","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cinemastance.com\/?p=2153","title":{"rendered":"Shark Night Available Now on Blu-ray\/DVD"},"content":{"rendered":"

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\nFrom the mind of David E. Ellis, director of \u201cSnakes on a Plane,\u201d comes a film about sharks in a lake entitled \u201cShark Night\u201d. Mr. Ellis obviously has a thing for animals at locations were they shouldn\u2019t be. Even his first film \u201cHomeward Bound II: Lost in San Francisco\u201d was about 2 dogs and a cat lost in the bay area. I\u2019m thinking of working up a treatment for a movie called \u201cBears on a Boat\u201d and sending it over to him. Couldn\u2019t hurt.<\/p>\n

\u201cShark Night\u201d (Originally titled \u201cShark Night 3D\u201d) gets about everything wrong. The who, what and why of the film are all clumsily presented.<\/p>\n

The Who:<\/strong> Ripped directly from the \u201cHorror Movie Plot Text Book\u201d we see a group of college kids heading to a lake house in the Bayou of Louisiana for a fun weekend of beer pong and partial nudity. Everyone in the group is a lazy stereotype: The Black Athlete, The Bad Girl, The Nerd etc. Along the way the meet some more cookie cut characters, this time it is blatantly racist and sex depraved rednecks.
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\nThe What:<\/strong> Once at the house, the girls strip down to bikinis while the boys put on their board shorts for some quality time in the water. Unfortunately this lake is a salt-water lake and the home to several species of computer generated man-eating sharks. One by one the innocent are torn to bits by the ferocious fish.<\/p>\n

\u201cShark Night\u201d was conceived of and released shortly after a similar film, \u201cPiranha 3D,\u201d and it seems pretty obvious that this is case of the former film trying to emulate the latter. The problem is \u201cPiranha 3D\u201d was a celebration of exploitation films of the past and reveled in the sex and gore to such a heightened point that it made the film highly entertaining. Most importantly, that movie didn\u2019t take itself seriously. \u201cShark Night\u201d makes the mistake of being a PG-13 rip off; no nudity (all though we see plenty of bare backs), no gore and no sense of humor. In other words, every reason to watch one of these cheesy flicks has been removed. The result is a pointless retread that plays more like a film you would find on the SyFy Channel on a Saturday afternoon right after \u201cBoa vs. Python\u201d or \u201cMega Shark vs. Giant Octopus\u201d.
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\nThe Why:<\/strong> The reveal of why the sharks are in the lake in the first place is one of the most ridiculous, eye rolling plot turns I have ever seen. It is impossible to think that they writers couldn\u2019t come up with ANYTHING better. The intent here could have been at humor but it comes across as just plain stupid.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

From the mind of David E. Ellis, director of \u201cSnakes on a Plane,\u201d comes a film about sharks in a lake entitled \u201cShark Night\u201d. Mr. Ellis obviously has a thing for animals at locations were they shouldn\u2019t be. Even his first film \u201cHomeward Bound II: Lost in San Francisco\u201d was about 2 dogs and a […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":2158,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[5298,11491,17648,18165,18578],"class_list":["post-2153","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-dvdblu-ray-reviews","tag-david-e-ellis","tag-katharine-mcphee","tag-sara-paxton","tag-shark-night-movie","tag-snakes-on-a-plane"],"blocksy_meta":{"styles_descriptor":{"styles":{"desktop":"","tablet":"","mobile":""},"google_fonts":[],"version":8}},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/cinemastance.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2153","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/cinemastance.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/cinemastance.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cinemastance.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cinemastance.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2153"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/cinemastance.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2153\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/cinemastance.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2153"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cinemastance.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2153"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cinemastance.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2153"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}