Really Surprised!

Must See Movie...

An Exercise In Nonsense

Great movie. Not sure what people expected but I found it highly entertaining.

'Pinata: Demon Island' was on one of our movie channels last night.Just when I thought I'd seen about everything in film monsters from outer space Clowns to giant bunnies, this one comes up with a demonic pinata. You know, simlair to those candy filled figures kids hit with a stick at children's parties only this one hits back HARD....and it's mean looking. The explanation of the pinata's creation at the beginning was actually pretty imaginative. After that segment and years later it was your typical brainless college kids partying, drinking, flirting, girls in skimpy tops and or course acting stupid. The kids make just about every stupid move you can make in a horror film like "Lets stay together so we don't get beheaded...no, no, you go on ahead I don't want to slow you down...I have a pebble in my sneaker...I'll catch up later" Or a girl saying while chased through the jungle " I have to stop and Pee".The pinata itself was done with either very primitive CGI effects for 2002 or simple amateurish animation. In some scenes it must have been someone in a bulky pinata costume. The creature looked so bad at times we were laughing when we should have been scared. And the way they finally stop the pinata .... was a bit much considering how unstoppable it had been till that point. I did like the last scene however...at least it seemed the writers were in on the joke by then. Who would believe what just happened and how could you explain it to the authorities? In all fairness it did hold our interest. The kind of movie you like to watch on a summer night not expecting much. It may even be in that rare category we so often hear about 'So Bad it's good'. Well if not Good then almost fair anyway. And I have seen many worse.Warning: After seeing this movie you may think twice about breaking a pinata. Most likely you'll be getting flash backs when you see one. In fact you may even take the stick from the kids and beat yourself in the head with it. Oh heck, see it anyway.

This film is one of the last I was able to get a hold of in order to see as many of IMDb's Bottom 100 films--the 100 movies with at least 1500 reviews that are the lowest rated. Most of the films on the list truly are horrible, but a few seem to have been unjustly rated. Is this film truly horrible enough to be on this infamous list? -- The movie starts with a prologue about some pre-Columbian natives creating a clay statue and magically transforming all the evil into it and sending it away to stop the plague. The scene switches to the present and you see a group of really, really worthless fraternity and sorority member heading to a hedonistic time on an island--which, surprise, surprise, is where the statue currently resides. Considering that these spoiled brats seem to spend all their time drinking, screaming, showing off their butts and acting boorish, I must assume the film is going to be a comedy. It certainly would not be a horror film to see these jerks die!Later, when some of the idiots discover the statue, they do what you'd expect anyone to do when they discover an ancient artifact--they smash it to see what's inside!! As I said, these idiots really, really needed to die! What follows, however, does look much more like a comedy, as the statue comes to life and a clay guy starts running amok!! It smashes people to death and blood goes a flyin'--making it a slasher movie but without the knives. In every possible way, it's exactly what you'd expect.So is it bad enough to make the list? Well, yes...but MOST slasher films should make the list, if you ask me! This one does manage to be even dumber, however, given the whole piñata angle. Plus, explosions when there really shouldn't be any as well as a dumb CGI villain make this a really bad example of a really dumb genre. Still, dumb young adults being slaughtered--this isn't exactly an idea that we haven't seen before or will probably see much more of in the future--as there are LOTS of fools who flock to theaters to see this mindless crap. This doesn't say much about the human race, does it?!By the way, why is Garrett Wang in this film? He's 34 years-old and way too young to be hanging with these morons. I guess life after "Star Trek: Voyager" isn't all it's cracked up to be.

I don't understand why this movie isn't on the Worst 100 list. I've seen 7 movies on that list, and this one is worse than any of those. If I gave a 10th grade class an assignment to create special effects and they turned in the ones in this movie, I might feel sorry enough for them to give them a D. I hope they didn't pay the special effects team more than $500. Not only are they embarrassing poor, the animated figure doesn't look like the costumed figured used in the close ups.Meanwhile the acting is so stiff that one is left wondering if the final footage came from the 2nd or 3rd reading of the script. Or if the script was simply being written an hour before the filming.If you are looking for a silly horror movie to watch with a group of friends for laughs, this is a very good candidate. On that scale, I would give it an 8.

or whatever they make movies out of these days. One of the worst movies I've ever seen. I grew up in the late 1960's- early 1970's and enjoyed Ray Harryhausen special effects thirty years ago. People are now wasting money to produce these god-awful sci-fi channel movies that are ruining the appeal of the science fiction genre. "Pinata" is simply a terrible waste and it is not a movie that is so bad it's good or funny. It's just an insult. Either that, or intended for kids under age three. The special effects are juvenile and there was no effort to produce a quality product. That's what is so bad about these sci-fi channel, straight to DVD movies. They are just cranking out more quantity with very low quality. This drags down the entire genre. These movies will not be watched in 30-40 years from now like we watch classic horror movies now. Movies like "Pinata" just go straight to the dumpster where they belong. Another hour and a half wasted.