Baywatch - 2017

 This was ridiculous. Kinda funny, but mostly ridiculous. It’s ok because it seems clear to me that that’s what they were aiming for, really, and rightly so. They were right in doing it this way, but I don’t think it was advertized the right way when it came out. I thought it was more serious, more like the series, so I wasn’t really interested. I watched it now just out of curiosity, and from the start you can see the atmosphere of this movie, when Mitch’s head comes out of the water and behind him booms the title in big letters, with dolphins around, something like that. That was cool, and set the mood for the whole thing, well done. 

So, I watched it without much expectations, and I kinda liked it. We have all the old characters names, but with different actors and stories. We have Mitch, the leader. There’s CJ, beautiful and silly, and nerd Ronnie who joins them because he’s in love with her. There’s Stephanie the serious one and Summer with the big tits. Then there’s Matt Brody, who won two gold medals swimming but then started drinking, lost, got in trouble, and now is on probation, to join the lifeguards as a kind of community service. He’s arrogant and not one to play for a team, at first, but of course they’ll win him over and he’ll become one of them 100%.They don’t just rescue people from drowning, they also catch thieves on the beach and stuff like that, and right now Mitch is very worried about a drug called flakka or something like that. 

Rich Victoria wants to buy all the land and she deals that drug. She bribes a councilman but when he doesnn’t come through and fails she has him killed. Then she has her men abduct Mr Chen who won’t sell to her, but eventually they’ll saev him. Mitch, Summer and Matt break into the Morgue to look at the councilman’s body, and because of this Mitch is fired, and Matt is in command. He now wants to follow Mitch’s lead and so he keeps investigating. Mitch tries to work in a tech store (lol) until his mentor Mitch sets him right (yes, the real Mitch).

Matt and Summer find out where Victoria keeps the drugs and what she wants to do. They save Mr Chen and try to stop her with fireworks… and eventually blow her up with a firework/cannon that Mitch aims at her.

At the end, the local cop apologises for not helping them since they were right, Matt wins Summer over and Ronnie gets CJ. 

Mitch has his job back and Casey Jean makes a cameo appearance to show everyone that she’s always the blondest. The end :-p

Mitch Buchannon - Dwayne Johnson

Matt Brody - Zac Efron

Victoria Leeds - Priyanka Chopra

Summer Quinn - Alexandra Daddario

CJ Parker - Kelly Rohrbach

The Mentor - David Hasselhoff

Casey Jean Parker - Pamela Anderson