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1989
Directed by Richard Compton
Synopsis
A new kind of crime wave
Welcome to the bay... Mitch and his friends enter the sink or swim world that is BAYWATCH.
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Cast
David Hasselhoff Parker Stevenson Shawn Weatherly Billy Warlock Erika Eleniak Peter Phelps Gina Hecht Brandon Call Monte Markham Mädchen Amick Wendie Malick Nancy Valen Richard Jaeckel Michael McManus Hope Marie Carlton Branscombe Richmond Kimber Sissons Kellie Martin Teri Weigel
DirectorDirector
Richard Compton
WritersWriters
Douglas Schwartz Michael Berk
CinematographyCinematography
John McPherson
LightingLighting
Randy Glass
StuntsStunts
Gregory J. Barnett
Language
English
Alternative Titles
Baywatch, Спасители на плажа: Паника на кея в Малибу, Baywatch: panico a Malibù
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TV Movie Thriller Drama
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29 Apr 1989
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Review by Michelle Parsons ★★★½ 1
Madchen Amick as a crazy girl with the world’s biggest fanny pack, 13 yr old Hobie learning how to undo girls’ bikini tops, Veronica Cartwright totally wasted in a 10 second scene (but it’s always nice to see her), and of course a smarmy Australian just to fuck with my heart.
Also- wtf was up with that last round of CPR??
All in all this was an entertaining cheese fest/crazy girl movie (you know how much I love those) that kind of makes me want to actually watch the series. -
Review by Rich Trash🗑️ ★★★½ 8
Baywatch is known to be a worldwide phenomenon in the 1990s and Panic at Malibu Pier is where it all began, before the show was canceled by NBC. Thankfully, this show went into television's wild west wasteland known as syndication. We are introduced to Mitch and his son Hobe and the rest of the lifeguards. To be honest, most of the lifeguards aren't exactly memorable but then again I watched this show a few years later and Pamela Anderson was there. Another truth bomb is I can't remember a single episode of this show but I do remember the slow-motion running in those iconic red bathing suits.
If Panic at Malibu Pier were a stand-alone movie I would be 100%…
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Review by Callisto ★★ 15
The surf is gonna be pounding.
Why did no one ever tell me what a hunk David Hasselhoff was?
What the hell? There's straight-up nudity in this. They're just have a nude photography session on the beach. (Much later, there's some casual "let me take off one side of your bikini top while I rub one of your nipples as we make out.")
Before I start the review, I have a list of things I'd like to bring up (with images):
・this white and pink jeep cute girls drive around
・Billy Warlock (Society (1988) wears a crop top
・Mädchen Amick's bicycling attire
・Mädchen Amick's flawless eyebrows (and everything, honestly)
・Mädchen Amick's fanny pack
・Mädchen Amick wearing this,… -
Review by glimmerman96 ★★★ 2
Baywatch - was hatte ich diese Serie damals geliebt. Da bin ich ehrlich, vor allem wegen der vielen halbnackten Strandmiezen, die sich in Zeitlupe in Bikinis am Strand räkelten. Aber nicht nur. Ich mochte die Mischung aus Drama, Action, Thriller und 90er TV-Erotik. Außerdem war ich Fan von David Hasselhoff.
Panic at Malibu Pier kommt schon mit all diesen Elementen um die Ecke, die die Serie zur meistgesehenen Serie der Welt gemacht hatten. Der Pilot führt in die Welt der Baywatch ein, bietet Rettungsschwimmer Action, 80er Modesünden (Mädchen Amick trägt hier den größten Bauchbeutel den ich je gesehen habe) und einen feuchtheißen Erotikthriller.
Kann man sich noch gut aus Stand alone Film angucken oder wie ich als Startpunkt um noch mal die ganze Serie zu schauen.
Meine Lieblingsbadenixen waren übrigens Yasmine Bleeth, die Pamela, Carmen und Erika Eleniak (die ja später zusammen mit Steven Seagal noch verhindern sollte, das Tommy Lee Jones Atomraketen von einem Kriegsschiff der US Navy stiehlt).
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Review by Pippin ★★★½
I don’t quite know why this is on Letterboxd since as far as I know this is just the Baywatch pilot episode and not a film technically.
Am I rating this a little too high? Perhaps. However, I honestly think this is a solid pilot and introduces enough to really entice the viewer to stick around for the upcoming series. I don’t think it deserves a 2.6 average!
I love how seriously this takes itself while also not taking itself seriously at all. Somehow this happens simultaneously. There is a character in this who is a lawyer but really loves being a lifeguard so he’s a full time lawyer and part time lifeguard.
Please don’t judge me too hard for really liking this...
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Review by ella ★
kinda a serve why lie
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Review by Matthew Friedland ★★★★★
1. Lawyer lifeguard or lifeguard lawyer?
2. This is likely why California is on fire
3. I would give this 6 stars if I could
4. There is so much evidence of this existing in the twin peaks universe, so by the transitive property of geometry, twin peaks and spongebob are in the same universe
5. Bitchin' -
Review by Lance Schibi ★★★½
A barn-burning week at the beach. Should’ve been three hours long.
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Review by David Lawrence ★★ 2
US version. There's no way I'd have given this a series order, so it's good I don't have that job. Amick's tv-sanitised psycho thriller subplot is the most interesting part of this TV movie, oddly meaning the Baywatch pilot deserves consideration amongst the erotic thrillers of the period.
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Review by AuteurTheory ★★★½
I just finished the whole nine seasons, now I’m bummed. So I’m going back to season one, which I skipped because it sucked so bad. But somehow I never saw the pilot.
It’s like the show, but it looks a little more cinematic. There’s a lot more old men than in later seasons. Maybe that’s why I didn’t like the first two seasons… there’s only one female lifeguard! Pamela Anderson doesn’t even show up until season three.
Anyway, this is one of the better episodes, maybe because it’s more adult. It’s actually kind of a suspense movie, which is cool, but also not very BAYWATCH and Hasselhoff disappears for too long. Still, it’s a very good pilot.
NOTE: Am I crazy or does the actress who plays Craig’s wife change halfway through?NOTE 2: A character dies that is later alive in the show.
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Review by Milos 👹 ★★★½
Cinéclub Obscuro | #26 Panic at Malibu Pier
Don't judge me, but as a teenage boy you just loved Baywatch and so did I then. This mix of 80's and 90's television optics together with the thrill, the drama and the erotic was great and of course I watched the films as well as the series. Although all I really remember is Baywatch: Hawaiian Wedding, the opening film, Baywatch: Panic at Malibu Pier, stuck in my mind as well. But what I couldn't remember was that Mädchen Amick had her first film role here and this woman was easy to fall in love with, she was the epitome of beauty. And let's be honest, the main reason people watched Baywatch…
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Review by mattstechel ★★★½
This is hard to rate in any conventional way because a lot of my reaction to this was colored by how different in tone this is from the rest of the series as this is the pilot movie. This is like super serious and dramatic, someone said afterwards that it played like an episode of Grey's Anatomy except with lifeguards instead of doctors, and like there's a whole ass subplot here that's right out of an episode of Law and Order Special Victims Unit which is insane--they're lifeguards, their not cops or social workers (and they're definitely not doctors!)
It's slso deliriously funny at times, albeit unintentionally so, but it really needs to be pointed out how nowhere close to…