nataliegibbs
Just going to put it simply and say that I did not enjoy this. If I didn't have trouble turning a movie off half way through, I would have. The story line was just so all over the place and didn't make sense for the characters in it.There is already a lot of trash talk on here for it and I feel bad for the actors/actresses and film makers who put time and effort in, so I do have one positive to throw in - the cast is all very pretty and I had no problems at all with that!
natekochis
My sister and I were looking for something to watch, didn't have to be perfect, but we were bored. Turning on Netflix, my normally helpful suggested list recommended this film. I have had explosive diarrhea ever since my viewing 'experience'. NEVER, and I mean never have I seen a film with writing that is so out of touch, so poorly thought through, so nonsensical. My little sister, 16 (the target audience) thought this was just as awful as I did. The plot doesn't exist. The movie doesn't have purpose, things just kind of happen without reason. I sincerely hope that anyone involved with the production of this film never finds work again. I hope that you are sorry for the sins you have committed.
themegster88
So, the worst films (for me) are films that have everything going for them, people who generally know what they're doing, yet push something mediocre out. It's the most frustrating experience.This camera-work is so strange, there are so many unflattering angles of these 'attractive' people. How difficult is it to line up a shot well? The had a good camera, lighting, and the sets weren't bad so why does this movie look so terrible, and why is there so much shaky cam?The characters are all so one-note, nothing is really explained, the main couple go from madly in love to mutually breaking up, to both of them finding a new love and no one bats an eye, how would all this couple swapping work in real life? No jealousy, no betrayal, no, apparently. Because that would have made this film interesting. No one reacts to all the madness happening, and it kills the plotAll these beautiful people shack up in a mansion and all work out what they want to do and have their dreams come true, the brunette girl gets offered a fashion line at the same time as the guy gets a surf team, as if. Life doesn't work like that, sorry kids. The director clearly has Hollwood connections (or good blackmail skills) to get Keanu Reeves and Pamela Anderson in, so why were they so terribly used? You could take them both out and it wouldn't affect the plot at all. All the young actors were just terrible, especially the singer guy, I don't even remember any of their names and I just finished watching it. That's how boring and generic they all were. Oh, and the dialogue was something copied from an Instagram #inspirationaquotes page. Spare me the pretension and put all this money to good use, please. There was awesome music, nice sets and thought clearly put into this, such a shame it was so misguided. But hey, I made it all the way though, and could laugh at it, so it's not entirely unredeemable.
Ana
This must have been one of the worst... "things" I have seen in a long time. Calling it a movie would even be offensive to a really bad movie.First of all the weird voice over sounds like someone forced their mom to read lines they had come with 2 minutes earlier, which would actually in a way be a good thing because it would be the ONLY logical explanation to why she makes everything sound so painfully awkward. And I just cannot NOT address the fact that Molly Ringwald plays the mom, I mean I have seen desperation amongst once famous actors but she has just taken the crown. Not to mention that the script is so bad it makes you wanna rip your hair out. Overall SPF-18 looks like it could have easily been made by middle schoolers and the fact that anyone would call this piece of crap an actual movie hurts my intelligence.Since this catastrophic piece of "film making" was Alex Israel's directorial debut I'm guessing we wont be seeing cinematic masterpieces from him any time soon. Goes to show that getting a bunch of fairly good looking yet extremely mediocre actors and placing them in a luxurious environment does not necessarily make a good movie, or you know, in this case a movie at all.