Welcome to ♠The Original Chatman’s♠ FIRST EVER movie review! Stay tuned for more in the future!
Happy Tuesday everyone! I hope y’all enjoyed the Memorial Day weekend!
Sunday night, I went to the movies in what felt like forever. In true movie theater fashion, a slew of potential hits (or misses) arrive at the theater around the same time, causing a dilemma on what to watch.
Baywatch was my choice for the night. Here’s my honest spoiler-free review of it below:
Baywatch stars Dwayne “The Rock” Johnson (The Fate of the Furious), Zac Efron, Priyanka Chopra (ABC’s Quantico), and Alexandra Daddario (San Andreas).
Dwayne Johnson plays Lieutenant Mitch Buchanan, the leader of Florida’s Emerald Bay lifeguard team. Mitch and his fellow lifeguards, which are of course beautiful women in skin-tight swimsuits, host the annual lifeguard tryouts in which only three recruits can join the Baywatch team.
However, things are not as they seem on Emerald Bay when flakka, a synthetic drug begins washing up on the beach’s shore. Additionally, the funding for the Baywatch team is threatened to be cut off—henceforth Efron’s character Matt Brody, a two-time gold-winning Olympic swimmer, comes forth as the public relations savior to keep the Baywatch team from disbanding.
Priyanka Chopra channeled her inner James Bond-villian for her role, demanding a grand presence similar to her role as Alex Parrish on Quantico, however with more comedic input than what we’ve seen her act out on screen.
Usually when comedy blockbusters are released, all the funny jokes and punchlines are revealed within the trailer. This was the opposite of Baywatch. The funniest moments of the movie came from Matt and Brody constantly bumping heads with each other. Throw in a bunch of stunts on water-skis and all-terrain vehicles, and the movie is definitely a hit for the summer.
Check out the movie trailer below and go see Baywatch in theaters now!
The Original Chatman 