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Sorry, this movie sucks

It's entirely possible that sending the audience out feeling lousy was intentional

Exactly the movie you think it is, but not the movie you want it to be.

The film never slows down or bores, plunging from one harrowing sequence to the next.

'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.

my girlfriend just shouted at me from the other room "ohmygod Killer Pin~ata!!" i yell back "i told you syfy original movies are worse than freebasing crack" When she said Jamie Pressley i had to take a peek, and i got the scare of my life (worse than when i saw someone get hit by a car 5 feet in front of me) i swear some of my hair turned white and i almost crapped my shorts... in a little box in the corner it said "AMC" ...now i'm not a religious man by any stretch, but i could feel the crack of thunder as the last seal was broken and the end of days was upon us.After i pushed my eyes back in my sockets and took a few deep breaths i thought it HAD to be a mistake, or practical joke, someones last day at AMC and really wanted to screw with his boss -or the rest of humanity... SO then i come here to IMDb so see how many jokers would give this a 10, which didn't surprise me at all.. but i saw that one of the first comments/reviews was from 5 motherfunking years ago. FIVE YEARS AGO, HOLY SHINTO how long has this been going on?? Whomever is responsible for this repeat offense against nature should have their skin removed one layer at a time, or 1 centipede shoved in their urethra for each time its aired, or just shot into a black hole or something. i don't think ill be sleeping for the next week or so.Anyone who wants to make fun of me for spelling or trying too hard to be funny you just go right ahead, nothing could hurt me more than what my TV just did to me.

Yes, I saw this movie on AMC, which stands for American Movie Classics. How a movie that came out in 2002 and might have came out the same year it was shown on the channel is considered a classic I will never know. How a horrible movie that is not worth your time to watch it turned up on a station that claims it only does classics is beyond me. The story is about what is essentially a killer piñata, which is kind of absurd in the first place. However, you add lots of blood and nudity to the mix and you have yourself a good fun time. Well, the makers of this movie did not want to take that route apparently and thought they were on to making the next great horror movie. And who can blame them, their movie went apparently straight to the American movie classics station where they showed it repeatedly that first October when it premiered. I thought I would give it a look see as I was expecting some sort of horror movie from the 1970's that possibly slipped by my radar, but no just another bad horror movie with bad special effects and virtually no good kills to be found.

I must say, this movie is a joke. From a distance, the plot sounds like a funny comedy from the 80's like "Weekend at Bernie's" or something. But as soon as you find out that this film is meant to be a serious horror flick, it officially becomes your first step towards the cliff dive that is "Demon Island" (or as some know it as, "Pinata: Survival Island"). A demonic piñata? Really? That's the best you could come up with? The "Wizard of Oz" has a more frightening plot (and at least that had attacking, flying monkeys. Now THAT will scare you).What really put the icing on the cake for me, though, is the "special effects" that were used. Now, don't get me wrong, there were a few (and I use the term lightly) shots that I thought made the "monster" look kinda cool, but everything else just made it look like it came straight out of a Power Rangers movie. Seeing what the "monster's" vision looked like just made it worse. I was like watching a frame-by-frame video of a photo-negative kaleidoscope. About 3/4 of the time I couldn't even tell what was going on, making it look like just a giant mess of colors on the screen. I do have to applaud the effects artists for making things like the explosions look just like those from the terrorist shooting games in the arcade. Bravo.Overall, I have to say this looks more like an attempt at a more grown-up version of the "Scooby-Doo" movie (especially the scene where they are being chased on the 4-wheelers, and if you've seen both movies, you'll know exactly what I mean). The only people I would recommend this film to are ones that are either really high or want a bad movie to laugh at.