Director: | Michael Jenkins |
Starring: | David Reyne Ron Becks |
Company: | Hanna-Barbera Australia McElroy & McElroy |
Country: | Australia |
Language: | English |
Budget: | $1.5 million |
Shark's Paradise is a 1986 Australian television film directed by Michael Jenkins and starring David Reyne and Ron Becks. The film, about police on the Gold Coast, was heavily influenced by Miami Vice.[1]
A retrospective review, finding the film has more to do with Dead-end drive-in than with proper sharksploitation, concludes by stating: "Australians with a sense of humour about themselves may be left crying with laughter. And non-Aussies may have an even better time as they are presented this deranged advertisement for Queensland."[2] Another review calls the film "A gloriously kitsch made-for-TV movie".[3]