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    I hesitate to "yadda-yadda" movies, but this is one of them. I can't BELIEVE how awful a retread this one is. It's like Deadly Species all over again, except whoever wrote this slop thought that adding an evil pinata would somehow make it all original!

    It continues on for an hour and a half or so, along with several murders that redefine the term "overkill", until we get ourselves to the truly mystifying ending to all this.

    Do you want to know just how this awful slop ends? Do you?

    THEY THREW A MOLOTOV COCKTAIL AT IT.

    The worst part is this, and I'm not kidding: they really killed the giant, evil, ceramic pinata by setting it on fire. This makes no sense. This follows no rational, reasonable, coherent chain of events. I don't even know where to begin describing how wrong this is.

    But anyway...after that garbage winds down, we have extra features. We have Spanish subtitles, so that Spanish speakers can be TWICE as offended by this nightmare of a film. We also have trailers for Pinata Survival Island, Bark, and Revelation. And as if that weren't enough, we have audio settings, commentary, cast bios, filmmaker bios, a segment on the Chiodos who made the pinata effects, a trivia game that brings new meaning to the term "trivial pursuit," because that's exactly what it is, and production stills.

    So all in all, Pinata Survival Island is just one more piece of garbage in the overswelling landfill that is most of the direct to video industry. Shovelreel, anyone?




    AUTHOR: Steve Anderson

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