Thirst

(2008) **

This is another of those survival suspense thrillers like “Frozen” or “Open Water”. Three not so bright people and one smarter but still dumb enough to be with the rest of them get stranded in the desert. One of them kicks it pretty early on, they bury her and the other three decide to walk for help. They run out of water and have to resort to drinking urine and sucking snake blood and such. As they grow drier and hungrier tensions rise and blah, blah, blah.

...and he wanted the sausage.

This movie annoyed the crap out of me. None of the cast is likeable, well maybe the girl that died right away was a little likeable but the rest suck. Lacey Chabert plays Noelle, the slightly smarter med student who seems a little smug and always has an answer for everything. Her husband Bryan is highly forgettable and his friend Tyson is just annoying. Why do these films of groups going someplace always feel they need to have one annoying guy in the bunch? It's just this added stress until they inevitably die, which always seems to take way too long. Anyway, the urine guzzling incident was just ridiculous. Don't they always say when you're dehydrated to take small sips or your body will reject the liquid and cause you to puke. Noelle and Bryan each chug down a bottle of pee like it was a drinking contest. Then they find water, the 2 guys rush over and start guzzling away. Meanwhile miss smarty pants sniffs the air then suddenly realizes it's poisoned with arsenic and tells them they must vomit or die.


I have to admit, I have an issue with Lacey Chabert. It's not really her fault but after watching “Mean Girls” I cannot look at her without seeing Gretchen Wieners. She played that role too well. As with “Frozen” (review will be posted at some point) one of the major issues I had here was that I didn't feel like they were genuinely suffering. It's like they are dragging along on the ground but no ones voice got dry and cracked. I would think after 3 or 4 days without water it would be mighty hard to yell at each other. It also gets pretty darn silly when Noelle pulls a Macgyver with a breast implant and what looks like a basketball air pump needle. What's she doin' with that thing?