To me, this movie is perfection.

That was an excellent one.

Good concept, poorly executed.

Through painfully honest and emotional moments, the movie becomes irresistibly relatable

At first sight, you think that the film is going to be about blood- thirsty sharks hunting and killing lots of people as is the case with this genre. But this one is different: Sharks are only one sub-plot. Central to the theme of the film is an over-protected young teenager and her struggle to be an adult. Her father tracks every movement of her and boys are really into having sex with her in her spring break. Oh yes there are occasionally sharks as well, let's not forget!!! The film is 85 minutes long and I noticed that sharks only began to appear (except the opening scene of the film) at the 70th minute. I have every reason to believe that everyone watching this film was more concerned with what would happen to the guy who was almost dying to get it on with the girl, rather than how sharks would relate to the ending.I have seen many bad films that have sharks in it, but this is by far the most disappointing one.

If it were not for the abysmally banality of the shark attack sequences, which are some of the worst I have ever seen, and for the ridiculous explanation at the denouement of the picture and all that leads up to it, "Spring Break Shark Attack" might have ended up being a merely passable made-for-television creature feature. Heck, it might have even ended up at being flat-out mediocre instead of a dead bore as it is. But it must be given more credit than the norm of this genre. It is much more ambitious than over creature features; they're at least trying at some point in the picture. It's rather amusing. In most movies like this, when we're away from the monster, we feel as lifeless as a piece of driftwood. When the creature arrives, we're still bored, but usually amused by the awful special effects and poor directing. Well, here, it's a little of the opposite. When there are no sharks, the movie is amusing and when there are sharks, it's as dull as dishwater.They were at least attempting to build a good human story here. Our protagonist is played by Shannon Lucio (in a good performance) as a normally obedient high school graduate who decides to become a rebel and go to Florida on spring break against her father's will. She joins up with friends, ogles at the local beach stud (Riley Smith), tries to avoid a lascivious, sex-starved rival (Justin Baldoni), and then...well, you guessed it, evades man-eating sharks. Yes, around this time, a group of sharks begin to attack the beach on spring break.I may be crucified by some, but I cannot deny that there were some parts of this movie that I did enjoy. None of them had to do with the sharks, however. They had to do with Shannon Lucio, who is quite good in the movie, and her character and what she goes through. Her relationship to her romantic interest is banal and boring, but there are some good elements such as her attempt to bury the hatchet with her brother, who is studying at a seaside university, and oddly enough the scenes with her and Justin Baldoni almost work. These scenes don't always work, but you can feel the refreshing air where the filmmakers were at least attempting to make a good story. Unlike a great many "Jaws" rip-offs, where you get the sense even the makers of the movie couldn't have cared less.So when the movie's out of the water, on the beach, it's not good, but not too bad either. At these moments, it might have had a 5/10 going for it. But then there's the shark attacks, which are so abysmally bad, and there are so many of them in the last half of the movie, that they pull everything under along with their screaming victims. The cardboard and rubber fins painted gray are utterly awful and the phony screaming and thrashing of their victims so cheesy that one cannot even laugh at them. Honestly, nobody expected a real scare from a movie called "Spring Break Shark Attack" but at least a good laugh here and there. Here, no laughs. The open time I opened my mouth at the sharks was to yawn. We also question why the sharks are congregating on this particular beach at this particular time and when we do find out why, the explanation the movie gives is so harebrained and boneheaded and deprived of logic (even on the standards of this genre) that it produces nothing more than an exhausted yawn.Perhaps this film would have fared better had it been a beach story with no sharks or shark attack back-stories. Shannon Lucio is pretty and quite good in her role and there are some fine supporting performances, including two by great actors Kathy Baker and Byron Brown, but ultimately the movie is just too banal, too clichéd, and too dull to recommend even without the sharks. Coupled with them, it sinks lower on the scale. Ambitious as it is, "Spring Break Shark Attack" is nevertheless an unfortunate failure.

Well, I will just say that I didn't find the acting awful in this movie. It does feature characters out of an episode of ONE TREE HILL, but the central performances weren't necessarily what I had a problem with. It was the lack of sharks and dead college kids eaten by them. Danielle(Shannon Lucio) goes against her father's wishes and heads for spring break in Florida to hang out with friends, Karen and Alicia(Bianca Lishansky and Genevieve Howard)meeting chick magnet JT(Justin Baldoni). JT and his pal Max(Warren McAslan)like to shoot hot girls in bikinis doing naughty things. JT makes a move for Danielle who doesn't yet know the kind of scoundrel he really is..the way he likes to slip roofies in the drinks of girls, later date raping them. Nice guy, this JT. Luckily for Danielle, she meets responsible boat specialist/mechanic/operator jack-of-all-trades Shane(Riley Smith), whose mom, Mary(Kathy Baker in a small supporting role)runs a boat rental business. Shane and Danielle have one of those moments where their eyes lock and it's instant interest/attraction for one another. Danielle's daddy cheated on her mom so their relationship is estranged(..but you know that when terror strikes such entanglements will have a way of working themselves out)and her brother, Charlie(Wayne Thornley)is actually on scholarship in Florida working on a new type of equipment which may be the answer for sending sharks away from positions near potential human victims. It seems Charlie's experimental machines are able to aggravate sharks away using signals that confuse them. Anyway, bottom line, these machines are a means to save our main heroes at the end..seriously, when it seems that all hope is lost as Danielle, Shane, and Charlie use chum as a way to draw sharks away from chowing on partying kids, leaving themselves out in the ocean and prone to attack, we are used to devices created to save the film's heroes. Except for some minor attacks, all we get is the climax as tiger sharks descend on a bunch of college kids drinking in merriment, splashing away in the water, not a clue as to the horror that awaits them. Bryan Brown also has a small role as a sort of business rival of Baker's Mary, owning a money-troubled bar, on the other side of the beach. He uses Mary's boats for nefarious means, with ulterior motives which seem harmless(he is paying for Mary's services so the cash is hard to turn down)but contribute heavily to the tragic finale in regards to the tiger sharks. The filmmakers decide to refrain from schlocky CGI in regards to the sharks, and we don't really get a whole lot of man-eating carnage which left me rather disappointed. All we really have are the one suspense scene where Danielle is trapped out in the middle of the ocean as Shane guides her to safety as sharks surround her, and pools of blood where the beasts pull victims into the water. Mostly it's melodrama involving the triangle between JT, Danielle, and Shane, plenty of beautiful rich kids taking advantage of their parents' bank accounts and credit cards, & the build up to the finale, hinting at the eventual shark attack. Just one of a million "when sharks attack", JAWS rip-offs, but without the body parts floating in water, and humans caught in the mouths of the man-eating predators.

Over the years there have been numerous movies that have been about sharks and/or shark related topics.Past movies have been pretty far fetched and unable to uphold the standards to the original JAWS classic. The story line of Spring Break Shark Attack is very believable and deals with many issues from family and friendship issues to environmental problems, which makes the movie exciting, as well as makes you think about the movie as a fearful reality. The cast is absolutely wonderful especially the character of Danielle,played by Shannon Lucio,the girl next door type, who sneaks off to Springbreak as a naive girl who finds through daily events, a transformation to a young lady.