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The Guardian - UK
The Guardian - UK
Entertainment
Simran Hans

Baywatch review – not waving, but drowning

Dwayne Johnson and Zac Efron in Baywatch.
Sun, sea, sand, and so what?: Dwayne Johnson and Zac Efron in Baywatch. Photograph: Frank Masi/AP

Seth Gordon’s remake of the 1990s TV series is little more than boobs and the beach (though admittedly, he throws in a couple of set pieces involving male genitalia to try to even the stakes). Priyanka Chopra draws the short straw as a Bond-style villainess with an empty cackle, but it’s fun to watch Dwayne “The Rock” Johnson rib Zac Efron’s fallen swim champion (“Where are you from? One Direction?”). The pair have good chemistry, but the film falls apart when Gordon tries (too hard) to turn it into a crime caper.

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