Grizzly
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Movie Reviews of Grizzly
Movie Review: Grin and BEAR it!
Summary: 3 Stars
This film was released in 1976 on the coat tails of "Jaws" obviously trying to capitalize on the formula of its success.
Unlike "Jaws" being and atmospheric and suspensful masterpiece,
this at best is a fun "B" monster movie.
It's alot of stock footage of a grizzly bear spliced into a cast of unknown's and mixed into a schlock-fest.
They did use a trained bear for alot of moments and the bear has this look like its thinking " I can sure use a pot of honey right now".
Some scenes in this delectable little morsel are really quite entertaining though.
I mean this bear in one scene tears down a lookout tower that stands about 100 feet tall just to sink his teeth into a tasty park ranger. I got goosebumps when he demolished a operating helicopter to get at the poor slob at the controls ready to meet his horrific fate.
When the bear carries off the little boy in his paws to an unknown destination my heart was swelling with anguish.
At the end of the film the bear gets blown up by a bazooka and when that happens, my only thoughts are "how this would look on IMAX".
This is not a bad little movie. It's entertaining but best viewed with a beverage of your choice.
Movie Review: High Class Treatment of a low budget film
Summary: 3 Stars
This movie's claim to fame is that it was the first out of the box to copy the successful formula of JAWS. It made quite a bit of money around the world. It's not a very good film, however. The low budget is evident in the special effects. The film does benefit from nice photography and sweeping music. The actors are competent, but the script is somewhat lacking. The timing was right for the film, and it made it's small budget back quickly.
Somewhat of a cult film 30 years later, Shriek Show gives it a 2 disc special edition treatment. It includes a widescreen transfer (2.35:1), commentary by the female lead (and a moderator with a lisp!), 1976 documentary, a 30th anniversary look back, trailers, photos and ad art. Fans of this film will love the package. Most of these fans probably recall seeing the film at a drive in through their fingers.
Movie Review: not bad for the genre or the time period
Summary: 3 Stars
you know,i actually thought this was an OK movie.for a horror film from
1976 it's actually not bad.the acting is fair to good.there are some
tense action scenes.the cinematography is nice.as for the Grizzly,we
don't get to see a whole lot of him until near the end(naturally)but
when the beast is finally fully revealed,you can judge for yourself
whether it was worth the wait.as for the movie itself,all i can say is
i've seen a lot of movies(many form the same genre and time period)and
this is nowhere near as bad as some of the clunkers that have stunk up
my house.if you keep your expectations low and remember this is not
trying to be a masterpiece,you might get something out of it.i just
enjoyed it for what it was.for me,Grizzly is a 3/5
Movie Review: The best part of the film is that Neal Adams did the cover.
Summary: 2 Stars
You know how there are movies you remember from your youth as being absolutely awesome, but upon revisiting them as an adult, you wonder what sort of mind-altering, sugar-bomb, breakfast cereal you must have been on at the time?
I don't think I've had such a disparity in my opinions as I had with "Grizzly". "Grizzly" at one time was my second favorite film, after "Jaws" (which still remains right up there).
I haven't seen this film since I was a kid...and honestly I'm not sure if I saw it in a theater (shame on my parents... : ) or edited on bad weekend afternoon TV.
Regardless, I recall the thrills of the rampaging bear. I remember the three protagonists being similar to my Jaws family. I remember the horse.
So I gleefully plopped down in front of my TV, and spun up my new copy of my old fave, "Grizzly."
WOW is this a bad movie! Howlingly bad. Excruciating. Painful. Often unintentionally funny, and not in a good way.
In terms of "acting", Christopher George does his best to maintain some sort of rugged believability. Andrew Prine has a modicum of laconic naturalness. Richard Jaeckel, as the slightly-off naturalist, has, I think, one decent line.
Everything else, and I mean everything else, is flat-out awful. There is better acting to be found in any elementary school Christmas pageant seen across the country each winter.
The gore is not enough to satisfy the Fangoria set, yet the day-glo blood and brief shots of mangled limbs (and one mangled child) will surely turn off those with less-hardened sensibilities.
Even the score must have sounded dated the weekend after this film was originally released.
The only real pleasure in seeing this film now is mentally checking off the hysterical number of similarities to "Jaws". THAT'S kinda funny, and could be somehow converted into a pleasant drinking game amongst fans...
SPOILER ALERT...I'm giving away a little of the ending...
...especially when throughout the movie, this freakin' bear gets shot a few dozen times, without a scratch. There's a casual comment about a helicopter pilot being in Vietnam, and a brief scene of two people loading up the copter with guns and stuff.
So after this bear wreaks his havoc throughout the forest, the bear gets shot with a bazooka-like device, and explodes like nothing you have ever seen.
Seriously...the editing is comical, but it's basically...shoot! Then...HIROSHIMA! Then somebody somberly walking by a perfectly circular spot of fire about ten feet in diameter.
It's just goofy.
The most exciting part for me was recognizing the work of one of my old favorite comic book artists, Neal Adams. He did the cover artwork!
The DVD is actually a terrific set. Nice extras. The film itself will probably never look this good ever again. The period featurette still has the VHS dropouts, rolling bars and glitches there for all to see.
Fans will wax deliriously over this release, and justifiably so. But I warn you, if you haven't seen this movie in twenty years, you might want to preserve those memories just the way they are, and spare yourself the disappointment...
Movie Review: JAWS WITH S A HOT ONE!
Summary: 2 Stars
Okay,
This flick had potential as being funny all the way to the end. But alas', it was not meant to be. The story doesn' t matter. But, the problem is that the movie tries to be another JAWS! It can' t be done! We had "Duel" (cult classic) and than JAWS. The concept got blown out of proportion on being chased or hunted after JAWS. It would have been better to have had a guy in a rubber suit than to use actual footage of a bear prowling around. But, there is one scene that gives me laughs just thinking about it now!
A cabin becomes a prison to this girl who finds refuge there and the Grizzly comes a knockin on the door for a HUFF AND I' LL PUFF move until it eventually kills the girl and destroys the cabin. Well, the moment the Grizzly lifts it' s claws up in the air for a blow to the girl, it is TOTALLY FUNNY! The arm and the claw are basically a guy probably holding a long wooden pole with hair all over it and than this fake paw at the end of it with a swing back and forth for realistic value! Hhahahha! I rewinded that a bunch of times! Hhahha! This movie needed more of that and less seriousness and less money invested.
So, if you are ever in the mountains and you know about a Grizzly roaming the countryside? Make sure it is not a guy with a long stick ready to PAW YOU!