Adapted from the TV series Baywatch, which premiered in 1989 and aired throughout the 90s through to 2001, Baywatch the movie, in alliterative language may be described as having sun, sand, surf, swimsuits, skin but no sex, and well, certainly not sleazy. With such an overt title and especially with its television predecessor, one barely goes to watch a film for its cinematic qualities.
Mitch (Dwayne Johnson), as tall and as muscular as you can get, is a much-loved and a much-experienced lifeguard. He has two deputies for company, needless to mention — both females. A recruitment test is the backdrop for more bikinied girls and hunks. Ronnie (Jon Bass), a tech-savvy, bumbling guy, alongwith Summer Quinn (Alexandra Daddario) get selected, while Matt Brody (Zac Efron) a disgraced Olympic swimming gold medalist is put through the grind by Mitch but fails to make the grade initially.
Enter the owner of the prestigious Huntley Club — Victoria Leeds (Priyanka Chopra), an ambitious and unscrupulous lady who wants to usurp major portions of the Emerald Bay. And she also deals in drugs, which primarily is the reason why the lifeguards, led by the indomitable Mitch run around fighting goons, entering morgues masquerading as doctors, getting embroiled with the cops, all the while forsaking their actual duties on the beach.
Well, there are a few moments of comedy, but not enough to fill a couple of hours. It’s predictable and inane at times. There are moments a la Housefull films — a man’s penis getting caught in a chair’s slats and the subsequent attempts at freeing himself.
Commercially, the movie promises to fare as well as the guys and gals ran on the beach in the TV serial — in slow motion. It’s definitely not a must watch. Just a ‘may watch’.
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