” zac efron , alexandra daddario and priyanka chopra also star .
but it ’s not enough to carry two hours on the big screen .
yet one would think that director seth gordon and a team of writers could at least have more fun riffing on its quirks , which they try to do with jokes about women looking as if they 're running in slow - motion and the fact these lifeguards behave like cops , even though they 're not .
then the fun deflates like a beach ball with a hole in it , and viewers are stuck asking , “ well , it ’s ‘ baywatch , ’ what did you expect ?
somehow that was enough to sustain 11 seasons of television .
but , with everything else going on in the world these days , that may not be such a bad thing .
[ baywatch ] wo n't make anyone think about anything , except maybe about where to plan their next vacation where they , too , can run in slo - mo on the sand .
’ ” the simple expectation is a project that can poke fun at its source material , but use it as a base to deliver something fresh , like “ 21 jumpstreet ” ( cnn ) a " baywatch " movie need n't be high art -- its tv inspiration certainly was n't -- but did it have to be this inane ?
director seth gordon seems to have decided to go full gonzo — as in outrageous and tasteless — and the result is an ideal movie for immature , socially maladjusted males and their long - suffering girlfriends .