All the names on the credits indicate a long development process but at least they landed appropriate stars - Dwayne Johnson, Zac Efron, neither of whom is shy about taking the old shirt off. It's bright and breezy with some funny lines. Priyanka Chopra and Alexandra Daddario add a dash of glamour.
But full of annoying things too. Like, why not open with the TV credit theme song, one of the greatest of all time? Why make it R rated and have a bunch of swearing? To be edgy? It's Baywatch.
Kelly Rohrbach, Ilfenesh Hadera and Jon Bass don't quite work. In the girls' defence they don't have any real role to play. There's no distinguished characteristics.
There's some cute teasing of Baywatch being cops. But overall it felt like this was an attempt at a Lord/Miller film which didn't make it. The basic story was fine I think it was more the characterisations - no one had anything to play except Efron and Bass.
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