Baywatch
Paramount Pictures | Release Date: May 25, 2017 CRITIC SCORE DISTRIBUTION
37
METASCORE
Generally unfavorable reviews based on 47 Critic Reviews
Positive:
3
Mixed:
22
Negative:
22
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Critic Reviews

Critic scorePublicationBy date
38
The Globe and Mail (Toronto)Kate TaylorMay 25, 2017
As it giggles away at its campy self, at least you can groan along with it. Read full review
38
The Seattle TimesSoren AndersenMay 25, 2017
It’s all just a day at the beach, harmlessly fun and instantly forgettable. Read full review
38
Chicago Sun-TimesRichard RoeperMay 24, 2017
When you make films from junk TV, more often than not you’re going to wind up with a junk movie. Read full review
38
New York PostReed TuckerMay 24, 2017
Baywatch is not nearly as good as this genre’s best entries, like 2012’s “21 Jump Street.” It washes up on the beach like a dead whale. Read full review
38
Chicago TribuneMichael PhillipsMay 24, 2017
The movie is all preening and very few laughs, though Daddario and Efron have a few moments, and Johnson remains a supremely likable slab of movie star. Read full review
38
RogerEbert.comGlenn KennyMay 24, 2017
If you saw the trailer, you got the best the movie has to offer. Read full review
38
Movie NationRoger MooreMay 23, 2017
It’s a goof that isn’t goofy enough, a romp that doesn’t, and a tone-deaf riff on a show that was already a parody, in and of itself. Read full review
30
Wall Street JournalJoe MorgensternMay 25, 2017
The movie is a minor crime, a meandering misdemeanor that’s neither soft-core nor hardcore but no core, with no consistent style and minimal content. Read full review
30
SlateDana StevensMay 25, 2017
Baywatch is surprisingly without sexism or condescension: It’s equal-opportunity stupid. Read full review
30
ScreenCrushMatt SingerMay 25, 2017
Baywatch’s comedy (credited to six different writers) is second-rate and its action is even worse, with special effects that rank among the absolute worst I’ve seen in a big summer movie in many years. Read full review
30
Screen DailyTim GriersonMay 23, 2017
The film may pretend it’s more sophisticated than the show that spawned it, but its comedic stylings are alarmingly regressive. Read full review
25
Christian Science MonitorPeter RainerMay 27, 2017
What little plot there is involves drug-running and is just about as disposable as everything in this paltry excuse for a movie. Read full review
25
ReelViewsJames BerardinelliMay 25, 2017
The waterlogged end product is an example of lazy writing and direction with the vague hope that perhaps the involvement of Dwayne “The Rock” Johnson will attract viewers. Read full review
25
Washington PostStephanie MerryMay 25, 2017
If anything, Baywatch is a litmus test for how low Johnson can sink while still winning us over. Read full review
25
ConsequenceClint WorthingtonMay 24, 2017
When it comes down to it, Baywatch’s central sin is that it’s just…not funny. Read full review
25
The Film StageDan MeccaMay 24, 2017
There’s a severe tonal problem this movie never reconciles. It wants to be a self-aware, R-rated comedy and a straightforward action picture. At any moment, it’s one or the other but never both. Read full review
25
TheWrapAlonso DuraldeMay 23, 2017
A summer franchise movie that can’t decide if it wants to be a hard-R bawdy comedy, a d-bag-comes-of-age tale or a fairly unironic reboot of the glossy TV show (which ran from 1989-2001), Baywatch fails at all three, despite the best efforts of the perennially game Johnson and Zac Efron. Read full review
20
CineVueJamie NeishJun 8, 2017
What the director and writers have done is turn something that's considered by many to be dumb-but-fun into an overlong, unfunny film that's just plain dumb. Read full review
20
Paste MagazineOktay Ege Kozak Jun 1, 2017
Baywatch is a tonal mess of epic proportions. Read full review
20
Total FilmMatthew LeylandMay 23, 2017
Unfunny, unthrilling and unsexy, this doesn’t even reach the low bar set by the source material. Read full review
20
EmpireNick de SemlyenMay 23, 2017
Tonally, Baywatch veers all over the place like a drunk on a speedboat, making for one of the most lacklustre comedies of the year so far. Read full review
20
The GuardianSteve RoseMay 23, 2017
By about halfway in, the gags dry up and the story sinks like an overweight tourist who took a dip too early after the all-you-can-eat surf ’n’ turf buffet. Read full review
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