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==Critical response==
''[[The Washington Post]]'' offered that ''Spring Break Shark Attack'' was "a true dream title" for something viewers might expect to watch on late night [[Cinemax]] or on [[USA Network]] in [[prime time]], or find in a list of [[direct-to-video]] losers. They also offered that even with the ridiculous title, the film's "scary parts really are scary, enough so that little kids should be sent to their rooms."<ref name="Washington Post"/> Visual effects were approved, in that when a partly chewed victim washes up on the beach, it actually looked like a partially eaten shark victim, rather than something sanitized for television. They felt the film "works on its own frankly silly, fitfully gripping level" if one has "two hours to kill and a harmless lust for artificial blood."<ref name="Washington Post">{{cite news|last1=
''[[DVD Talk]]'' spoke toward the film being a drama about teens who look older than they're supposed to who have "to deal with their relationships and romantic encounters and all the melodrama that accompanies that type of material" and described it as "basically ''[[Beverly Hills 90210]]'' with sharks."<ref name="DVD Talk"/> They felt the film had an issue with the sharks themselves being used at first so infrequently that the final 20 minutes of the film become makes "up for lost time by throwing in sharks by the hundreds."<ref name="DVD Talk"/> While the anticipated underwater photography is limited, there "are a couple of decent shark/kill scenes and a corpse or two that washes up on the beach, but nothing interesting enough to really stand out or make the film more any more enjoyable."<ref name="DVD Talk"/> The film's cinematography is decent and the film looks nice, and while no performance is particularly bad, no one stands out either. The film thus becomes the "very embodiment of mediocrity, resulting in boredom – the biggest sin a movie can commit."<ref name="DVD Talk"/> The film's very few appreciated moments do not act to save the film.<ref name="DVD Talk">{{cite news|last1=Jane|first1=Ian|title=DVD review: Spring Break Shark Attack|url=http://www.dvdtalk.com/reviews/20395/spring-break-shark-attack/|accessdate=15 February 2015|publisher=[[DVD Talk]]|date=27 February 2006}}</ref>
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