Lake Placid 2 (Unrated)
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Movie Reviews of Lake Placid 2 (Unrated)
Movie Review: Which Is Scarier, Cloris Leachman Or A Giant Crocodile?
Summary: 2 Stars
"Lake Placid 2" is a more boring version of the original featuring former "Dukes of Hazzard" star John Schneider, a gigantic CGI crocodile, and Cloris Leachman as the local crazy lady (replacing Betty White from the original). This made in Bulgaria flick tries to re-create the frights and good humor of the original, but largely falls short.
Most of the acting is wooden, with Schneider turning in the best of the performances, although the beautiful Sarah Lafleur does her best as the Fish and Game Administration agent and love interest. The highlight is seeing Leachman acting insane and following in White's footsteps in encouraging the flourishing fauna in Lake Placid.
The crocodile is onscreen quite a bit and the CGI varies from acceptable to really bad. The crocodile serves as a substitute for plot; the story ambles on very predictably (especially if you saw the original), with occasional stabs at humor and titillation interspersed throughout.
On balance, "Lake Placid 2" is an unneeded sequel, and while there are certainly many better creatures-gone-wild movies, Leachman and numerous ridiculous situations make this watchable once through for fans of brainless camp films.
Movie Review: 2.3 stars.......good for a rainy day
Summary: 2 Stars
Not bad , not as good as the original. It seems they ran out of money to
polish off the CGI effects... I rented this version, cause ive seen so
many more bad movies than this one.
Could have been much better... great for a rainy day.
Movie Review: Lake Flacid the limp noodle
Summary: 2 Stars
The only thing i liked about this movie was the girls and they werent really much to get crazy over.not near as good as lake placid.Movie Review: LAKE FLACID
Summary: 1 Stars
Granted, LAKE PLACID was not Oscar winning material. But at least it was entertaining and kept your interest, offering a twist on the tried and true formula of a town not wanting to admit they had a problem (via JAWS). There are days when I still pull out this movie to watch again, enjoying the back and forth between characters and the witty dialogue they share. Not the case this time around.
This movie is so blatantly made for TV that it reeks of all that is bad with sequels made for that medium. The only difference between that and this is that here they can offer a bit of T & A to spark interest. But all of that is predictable and uninteresting. As I watched two nubile young wannabe actresses (one of which offers the worst reading of written dialogue that I can recall), I felt like the croc featured in this film was taking over for Jason Voorhees, attempting to seek retribution and slutty teens involved in or preparing for sex.
The film begins with a huge gross out moment as the assistant to an EPA agent gets his arm bitten off and then his other are left behind in the pair's boat. The local sheriff, played well by actor John Schneider, is in the midst of cardboard cutout problems with his for the summer son (the child of divorced parents) when he gets a call to come in. When he arrives, he is confronted with the small amount of remains from the attack.
Along with his ex-girlfriend and game warden Emily (Sarah Lefleur) the trio set out to see what exactly is in the Maine lake nearby. Though uneaten, they do get into a confrontation with the croc resulting in his munching down their boat and them narrowly escaping to the shore.
Enter the great white hunter Struthers (Sam McMurray), a rich man with a joy for the hunt who has crossed paths with Emily before. Beside him is his trusted companion Ahmad (Joe Holt), a laughingly bad character that appears to be a man Friday to a hopeless bumbler, never quite sure of how to play the character. Is he Sudanese or is he Jamaican? He does end up with one of the few good moments in the film when he tells an ungrateful employer what he can do after years of being treated poorly.
The group gets help when Schneider calls his deputy to bring out a new boat and some explosives. The deputy makes it to them without incident but when they attempt to lure the beast in and rope him after tranquilizing him, it wakes and makes a meal of the deputy. The funny part is that no one seems to care or show signs of remorse at the loss of their friend. Within minutes they're trading jokes about what to do next.
While all this unfolds, we also have the story of Schneider's son Scott as he makes friends with the local teens. At least with the young lady teen, Kerri. The rest of the group are stereotypical hard nosed teens who want to prove to the city boy they can be as intimidating as...well...as something. Who knows what because they appear to be nothing but goofs that you know don't have a chance of making it to the final reel.
Also on hand is Cloris Leachman as the sister of the character played by Betty White in film one. She's just as nuts and helps the crocs by feeding them steroid injected meat and the occasional person or two. Why no one has noticed up to this point is anyone's guess.
There is nothing original at all about this film, even though most sequels tend to be mere repetitions of the first film. But this one doesn't even come off as a good parody of that one. No witty dialogue, uncaring characters, poorly done CGI effects throughout (even a plane landing on the lake is CGI!) all result in one terrible movie.
Don't waste your time here. Instead, rent or buy the first one. Hmm...then again if you watch this one first and THEN watch the original, you might wonder why the Academy didn't consider it for Oscar worthiness.
There is one good thing about this movie. It is so bad that I found myself laughing throughout. Amazing how a comedy like THE COMEBACKS fails to inspire laughter while this movie offers more in the first 30 minutes.
Movie Review: The Crocs Of Hazzard
Summary: 1 Stars
Avoid seeing this god awful excuse for a sequel to a movie that did not need a sequel done in the first place.
Bo Duke now resides in a small town, and this guy who was out on a boat with his friend are attacked by a crocodile. When he reports it, Bo Duke does not beleive him and the sheriffs department think it is a joke.
However, even after Bo is shown evidence of what is left of the first victim of one of the crocs, he continues to smile, joke around like he could not care about anything less in the world.
Along the way you meet characters who can not act for SHIpenuTs, but got the part cause they where willing to take there cloths off at the drop of a hat.
Each character in the movie seems to be done in a lame way. You can not beleive any of the characters, the acting itself is dreadful on most actors part, and the plot is almost the same as the original movie.
This time around, Cloris Leachmen plays the sister of Rose from the golden girls. And it's just too corny, and too predictable what her story is. But the thing about her character, is she was one of the actors in the movie who wasn't doing a terrible job, but the character she was given was like monkeys wrote the part.
If the acting and some of the accents and the characters where not bad enough, then there is the CGI. For a movie made in 2007, you do not expect to see CGI work that looks like it was from 1997. The croc's looked unbelievably bad, and the way they move are just in no way at all believable.
Anyone who has seen a real croc or alligator know they are not slow moving creatures, they pounce out of the water at speeds you have to see to beleive. And they can use there tails to launch many feet into the air. Yet the characters in this movie have no trouble out swimming a croc, hiding in a tree about 5 foot in the air, and have plenty of time to see a croc coming for them and decide what they will have for lunch next Tuesday before opening fire at one of these things.
I know sometimes you can suspend belief and just go with being entertained by a movie, but this one just does so many things that stand out in a bad way that you can't sit back and just enjoy it.
The script writer seemed to have had a decent story going, but the way it was filmed... it's like the director never did the scenes over and over to get the best one, he was like, "do it once....that will do, next"
The plots and ideas behind it where just lame, bad or leaving you thinking, "what where they thinking?" and thats what I say to this movie overall.
There is one more thing I did not like about this movie. The way it was shot, directed, cut together and even the way it was acted... if they cut out the un-needed nudity, this movie would be rated PG.
Which audience did they plan to show this to? Cause the adult audience are definitely saying how bad and lame it is. And at many points in the movie, I thought I was watching a kids movie.
If you have a program like NERO, use one of it's features to cut out the nudity scenes, then show it to a kid under 13. Then ask them if they thought any of the movie was the slightest bit scary?
This movie has no idea which way it should go, family movie, or more mature audience, and by the final cut of this thing, it's the useless nudity thats the only thing that gets it a rating above PG13.