Too much of everything

Best movie of this year hands down!

Mostly, the movie is committed to the value of a good time.

Amazing worth wacthing. So good. Biased but well made with many good points.

A demon hidden in a piñata threatens the very lives of some hapless teens on an island from which there is no escape. The Hillenbrands never disappoint and this motion picture is certainly no exception. The horror is unrelenting as the film moves at a breakneck pace with one thrill after another pummeling the audience. The evil is unimaginable and incredible in its pure intensity. An exciting cast of young people, fresh faces destined to be stars tomorrow, give superb performances as they fight for survival against overwhelming odds. The Hillenbrands use their cameras as a surgeon wields a scalpel during brain surgery, giving their film vision and excitement beyond what one would expect from a low budget production. This is a truly frightening, magnificently realized horror film that is epic in its sheer power.

This was one of the most pathetic movies iv ever seen. I watched it on IFC, when nothing else was on AT ALL. This movie can be summed up in 3 words- killer goddamn piñata. Yes I said piñata. The story is very simple, the acting is very lame, and everyones an idiot. There are only 2 good things I can name about this movie 1 - One of the actresses is a playboy playmate.2 - The killer piñata is one vicious little bitch.In all seriousness, there's 1 really hot chick and the Pinata, though pathetic and cheesy, brings the gore fest like Pinhead and Leatherface, just without the awesome demonic powers or the chainsaw. This is the kind of movie you rent for $1.00 when there's nothing else to do, or watch on TV for free as its pretty much worthless.

A group of college students goes to an island to party with tequila and underpants on Cinco de Mayo. But when two of them find an old pinata washed up on shore and break open the shell, they find it contains more than candy and child-friendly goodies: it has the evil spirits of an ancient tribe! The same night I watched this on DVD, two of my friends saw it on American Movie Classics (of all places) after a night of drunkenly revelry at the bar. My friend Kenn asks, "Why was AMC showing this crap? It was good for a laugh when you come home from the bar and flip it on, though." And my friend Nick concurs that "it totally sucked but as Kenn said it was funny after the bar grocery store run." I think this is the nicest thing you can ever say about "Demon Island" (which I saw as "Pinata: Survival Island").The cast was respectable (one guy from "Sabrina", one from "Buffy" and Jaime Pressly at her most annoying). But the decent cast didn't make this film any more bearable. And I can't blame them -- they did a fine job, and even the writers can't be blamed because the plot was good enough for a cheap horror film.The blame must be placed completely on the directors. First, there was the awful "pinata vision". I have yet to find a film that uses the "killer vision" feature without it looking cheap. I can accept "killer cam", but not some actual weird coloring to show what they would see like. Do I need to know that the pinata sees through some distorted ruby goggles? No.But moreover, the biggest issue was the use of the computer effects. They looked like crap. Complete crap. The pinata kept changing shape and size, and all these looked like crap. I have heard the directors didn't like the midget in the rubber suit. Well, the scenes with the midget in the rubber suit at least made sense -- he looked like the pinata rather than some weird shape-shifting thing. And it would have helped the continuity, since the giant pinata suddenly got very small when they needed him to. What the heck? So that's my beef -- a cheap plot with some of the worst effects just in my face for an hour. The best part of this film, as others have noted, is the first ten minutes with the flashback to the natives. I think this was done beautifully. But it isn't good enough to even make up for ten minutes of the later crap I had to watch. Can I say crap one more time? Because it was crap.Don't buy this, don't rent this, don't watch it on AMC. In fact ,if you were unlucky enough to catch it on AMC, send them an e-mail and tell them how much you hate them for wasting your time with this rubbish. Because when I want to see movie classics, I wan to see something that isn't only five years old and worth less than one of my kidney stones.

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.