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SHARK NIGHT 3DMovie Reviews
Horror thriller about a group of college friends trapped in boat on a lake stocked with massive, flesh-eating sharks. Cast:Sinqua Walls, Chris Carmack, Alyssa Diaz, Joel Moore, Sara PaxtonDirector:David R. EllisRelease Date:September 2, 2011DVD Release:January 3, 2012From:Relativity MediaRating:PG-13Length:1 hr 25 minIn 3D
Shark Night 3D played to poor reviews. • Roger Moore wrote in the Orlando Sentinel, "...a heartless, suspense-free 100 minutes of sharks dining out on kids stuck on an island in a Louisiana lake.... a picture with zero ambition and almost no entertainment value..." • Norman Wilner called the film in Toronto Now, "...a really dumb horror movie..." • And Josh Tyler wrote for Cinema Blend, "Eat them already, I’m bored." More Reviews Below...
Shark Night 3D Positive Reviews (18 Reviews, reviews below)
Adam Markovitz, Entertainment Weekly: POOR(cg) "...a ho-hum series of kills and lulls so predictable that it doesn't even look like much fun for the sharks; when they open wide, they might as well be yawning."(See all of Adam Markovitz's reviews...)(Read the full review...) 105 words, 09/09/11
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NEW YORK/LOS ANGELES/CHICAGO/TORONTO (8 Reviews)
Jeannette Catsoulis, New York Times: WEAK "...when the freakiest teeth on screen belong not to one of Walt Conti's animatronically realized sharks but to a good-ol'-boy called Red, you know you have a problem."(See all of Jeannette Catsoulis's reviews...)(Read the full review...) 325 words, 09/03/11
Elizabeth Weitzman, New York Daily News: POOR(cg) "...the one crime a B-movie should never commit is boring its audience.... If you're expecting a 'Piranha'-type goof, or 'Jaws'-style jolts, forget it."(See all of Elizabeth Weitzman's reviews...)(Read the full review...) 392 words, 09/03/11
Robert Abele, Los Angeles Times: POOR "...a disposable hard-body-count B movie... the shocks are weak... The comin'-at-ya 3-D feels more than ever like a vestigial gimmick, and there's no Samuel L. Jackson."(See all of Robert Abele's reviews...)(Read the full review...) 220 words, 09/03/11
Rafer Guzman, New York Newsday: POOR(cg) "A howlingly bad failure would have been better than this tame, boring chew-'em-up flick.... the film never manages to raise a good scare or a chuckle."(See all of Rafer Guzman's reviews...)(Read the full review...) 341 words, 09/03/11
Linda Barnard, Toronto Star: POOR(cg) "How bad is 'Shark Night 3D?' It's so bad the movie studio made critics sign an embargo promising not to breathe a word about the flick until the day after it premiered."(See all of Linda Barnard's reviews...)(Read the full review...) 456 words, 09/03/11
Nick Pinkerton, Village Voice/LA Weekly: POOR "The torpor briefly lifts for Donal Logue's Sheriff to deliver a madman monologue so shamelessly cut-and-paste that it achieves a measure of sublimity."(See all of Nick Pinkerton's reviews...)(Read the full review...) 214 words, 09/07/11
Roger Moore, Orlando Sentinel: POOR(cg) "...a heartless, suspense-free 100 minutes of sharks dining out on kids stuck on an island in a Louisiana lake.... a picture with zero ambition and almost no entertainment value..."(See all of Roger Moore's reviews...)(Read the full review...) 517 words, 09/02/11
Wesley Morris, Boston Globe: POOR(cg) "...as the illogic of it all begins to test your patience, you wonder whether the filmmakers and the studio wouldn't mind tossing us in the lake, too."(See all of Wesley Morris's reviews...)(Read the full review...) 362 words, 09/03/11
ALTERNATIVE/INDIE PRESS (8 Reviews)
Nick Pinkerton, Village Voice/LA Weekly: POOR "The torpor briefly lifts for Donal Logue's Sheriff to deliver a madman monologue so shamelessly cut-and-paste that it achieves a measure of sublimity."(See all of Nick Pinkerton's reviews...)(Read the full review...) 214 words, 09/07/11
Tasha Robinson, AV Club: POOR(cg) "...lacks the tension of a good horror film, or the self-aware humor of a fun bad one.... 'Shark Night 3D' barely bothered to show up, let alone deliver the minimal goods."(See all of Tasha Robinson's reviews...)(Read the full review...) 484 words, 09/02/11
Alison Willmore, Movieline: GOOD(cg) "...painless, dumb fun... Bonus: Stick around for the post-credits sequence in which (spoiler alert?) the cast performs a hip-hop plot song that's pretty awful..."(See all of Alison Willmore's reviews...)(Read the full review...) 571 words, 09/02/11
Simon Abrams, Slant: MODERATE(cg) "...there really isn't that much to applaud in 'Shark Night 3D.' It's just an intermittently promising bit of schlock, nothing more and nothing less."(See all of Simon Abrams's reviews...)(Read the full review...) 655 words, 09/02/11
Jeannette Catsoulis, New York Times: WEAK "...when the freakiest teeth on screen belong not to one of Walt Conti's animatronically realized sharks but to a good-ol'-boy called Red, you know you have a problem."(See all of Jeannette Catsoulis's reviews...)(Read the full review...) 325 words, 09/03/11
Robert Abele, Los Angeles Times: POOR "...a disposable hard-body-count B movie... the shocks are weak... The comin'-at-ya 3-D feels more than ever like a vestigial gimmick, and there's no Samuel L. Jackson."(See all of Robert Abele's reviews...)(Read the full review...) 220 words, 09/03/11
MOVIE INDUSTRY (4 Reviews)
Rob Nelson, Daily Variety: POOR "...displays little sense of its scenario's camp potential. Gore, too, is in short supply on account of the pic's PG-13 rating, which renders the attack scenes nearly toothless."(See all of Rob Nelson's reviews...)(Read the full review...) 409 words, 09/02/11
Robert Abele, Los Angeles Times: POOR "...a disposable hard-body-count B movie... the shocks are weak... The comin'-at-ya 3-D feels more than ever like a vestigial gimmick, and there's no Samuel L. Jackson."(See all of Robert Abele's reviews...)(Read the full review...) 220 words, 09/03/11
Jeannette Catsoulis, New York Times: WEAK "...when the freakiest teeth on screen belong not to one of Walt Conti's animatronically realized sharks but to a good-ol'-boy called Red, you know you have a problem."(See all of Jeannette Catsoulis's reviews...)(Read the full review...) 325 words, 09/03/11
15.5 Percentage Points Average Difference Between Reviews (Norm is 18.4pp; <18.4pp = More Consistent; >18.4pp = More Mixed)
Shark Night 3D's reviews are separated by an average 15.5 percentage points. The norm for this measure is 18.4 percentage points. Less than 18.4 indicates more consistent reviews; greater than 18.4 indicates more mixed reviews. In the chart below, each dot represents a review, with the dots at the top more positive than the dots at the bottom. From left to right, the dots represent reviews in big, bigger and biggest publications. Roll over each dot for more detail.
Shark Night 3D (18 reviews) Roll over dots for each review
Coverage:Shark Night 3D's reviews cover 21.9% of potential readers (average is 67.9%). Volume:The film's reviews total 6,555 words involume (average is 20,194 words). Length:The film's reviews average 364 words in length (the norm is 517 words).
Shark Night 3D Coverage, Volume & Length (18 Reviews, reviews below)
Reviews Broke 3 Days After Release (Norm is 1.2 Release)
Shark Night 3D's reviews on average broke 3 days after opening. Norm for this measure is 1.2 hours before. The chart below shows reviews on opening day and the days before and after opening; the left side is earlier and the right side is later. The red bars extending above the horizontal mid-line represent more positive reviews, and the red bars extending below represent more negative reviews. The white space/red bar in the middle is Shark Night 3D's opening day. Click on any bar for a list of the reviews for that day.
Shark Night 3D (18 reviews, click on bars for reviews)
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