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Summary: Whatever folks...
Review: I hope that this was supposed to be a comedy, because it certainly was not horror (One guy got bit in half and another's head was bitten off? There's scarier things on Looney Tunes.) and definitely not romance (I see more chemistry between rocks in my front yard than between the two characters in this movie who were supposed to fall for each other.). Perhaps it is significant that I can't remember any of the characters' names. This movie was truly horrible. I mean, these people are supposed to be worried that a giant crocodile is going to eat them. They seemed more worried about the mosquitoes. And the whole "Save the man-eating crocodile!" thing... come on! Hand me a gun, I'll take the thing out if they won't. But for the most part, I was with the old lady. I was rooting for the crocodile. It should have eaten everybody in the movie. At least it would have put them out of their misery.
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Summary: Erasure
Review: Oooh, oooh-oooh, sometimes - the truth is harder than the pain inside. Thus sang Andy Bell of Erasure, as their first substantial hit, 'Sometimes', climbed to number 4 in the charts, justifying Vince Clarke's decision to abandon hit-making Yazoo, who in turn had justified his decision to abandon the fledgling Depeche Mode after their first album, 'Speak and Spell', the cover of which had a swan wrapped in some curtains.Erasure's music sings to us through the ages, a timeless reminder of a time without time, a period in society which stood outside fashion - the late eighties. Who now can look back and say that they were not the best of times? The cultural fallout remains with us even today, as the forces which shaped the pop world still shift their pop tentacles. Barely a day goes by without a new chart act paying homage to such luminaries as China Crisis, The Fine Young Cannibals and, of course, The Woman from the Go-Gos who Wasn't Belinda Carlisle, You Know, She Did 'Rush Hour', Jane Something. Transvision Vamp ruled the airwaves, and Sigue Sigue Sputnik ruled the dancefloor. And yet, it could have all gone badly wrong. The early-nineties wave of one-hit 'rave' bands almost derailed Erasure's quest for pure pop, and for a time, unimaginable now, it seemed as if the future belonged to the Prodigy, Altern-8 and Messiah. Those days are gone, thank goodness, but the horror remains fresh in our minds. We will never forget those dark times, when obnoxious, masked figures stalked the studios of Top of the Pops, samplers in hand, waving lit neon tubes and shouting that they were going to take us higher and higher they were going to take us higher and higher they were going to take us higher and higher (ooo-eeeeeeeeeeeee, acieeeeddddd). Dang, dang dang - boosh! Blip blip blip blippety blip blip - boosh! Ah yeah! Hey kids - this is a journey into stereophonic sound MUST RESIST, MUST RESIST, must... resist.... As I have just demonstrated, it was a seductive brew, one into which less stirling souls could have fallen. But not me. I had seen the future. 'You stand on one side', sang Erasure, 'and I stand on the other - are we divided?' Yes. We are. The battle-lines had been drawn. War was upon us. One the one side - pure pop, with tonal, three-minute symphonies of deep meaning, and on the other, atonal ephemera. We can look back in security nowadays - we all know who won, but at the time there was a very great risk that the bad guys would win. As for 'Lake Placid', it was very dull.
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Summary: From the May issue of IRS.theroadlesstraveled.org
Review: This one is so marginally tolerable you could ALMOST give in - wait for it to show up on cable, blundered upon by channel surfing, and stand it for whatever length you deem worthy. It will seem fun then. Rent it, and your pizza arrives lukewarm. The good news: the computer animated crocodile is very cool.
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Summary: MINDLESS FUN
Review: Take away the beginning and end credits and what you are left with is a 75-minute long movie that wasn't worth the price of admission in the cinema but is worth owning on DVD. What I liked about Lake Placid is that it is kind of light-hearted and doesn't try and make itself a full-blown horror by showing us guts and entrails. The movie is NOT serious and has many suspenseful scenes packed into it's VERY brief running time. The cast are delightful and the big nasty croc is actually quite sympathetic at the end. Buy this DVD and enjoy for what it is...a light, breezy comedy-thriller that nails the bullseye instead of aiming for higher (and ultimatly lesser) results. The DVD has some promotional material and a trailer. It is in Dolby 5.1 and is letterboxed at 2.35:1.
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Summary: This is one flaccid monster movie
Review: I saw Lake Placid opening night at the movie theater and was very, very disappointed. I was not expecting much, I mean it was from the director of Friday the 13th Parts 2 and 3. But the select scenes I had seen on television plugs got me over it and I went. Truth be told, Lake Placid is an excellent made for television movie, that is all. You can see where the commercial breaks would fit in, and Steve Miner lived down to his expectations, delivering a soulless commerical product of a movie. Bridget Fonda sleepwalks through a role that is clearly modeled after Ally McBeal and the humor runs the same shallow level. You want a great killer reptile movie, see Alligator, its place as the greatest one ever made is assured.
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Summary: Terrific creature, dreadful script
Review: 'Lake Placid' had some good points, some bad, but mostly it wasterrible. This is like David E. Kelly on a bad trip. Kelley, whohas written so many award winning TV hits (including 'The Practice' and 'Ali McBeal') must have wigged out and during the convulsion coughed up this mess of a script. His penchant for throwing together odd characters engaging in puerile sardonic dialogue is taken to its bizarre extreme in this film. With a 'creature-feature' the plot is always the same: It's out there destroying things and killing people and our heroes need to get rid of it. In this case the creature is a 30 foot crocodile from Asia that ends up in a lake in Maine. There is never any explanation or even conjecture of how it got there or how it got so big. It's just there; eating cows, bears, humans, and any other mammal that crosses its path. The purpose of the creature in all such films is to scare us and then be neutralized at the hands of our heroes. In this limited way the movie was a great success. Unfortunately, even a creature-feature requires some dialogue. This is where Lake Placid hits the water with a resounding thud. Kelley attempts to create a black comedy, but unfortunately he leaves out the humor and replaces it with asinine banter. The dialogue among this random hodgepodge of wackos is goofy, jejune, sarcastic and only occasionally funny. Indeed the only really funny lines went to Betty White, who was a scream. The direction by Steve Miner was first rate. Miner is a veteran of the horror genre and all the action, suspense and beast sequences were expertly done. The animatronics were fabulous as were the digital sequences when the crocodile was on land. The locations were beautiful and nicely chosen for their backdrops. Miner did as good a job as anyone could hope considering the actors had to run their lines between creature scenes. There isn't much point to evaluating the actors (it was a good cast), because their characters were so weird, and they had so little material to work with, they all came across looking inane. I'd give this film an 8 for the creature and about a 2 for the script. Overall I rated it a 4/10. Except for the croc, it's worth missing.
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Summary: WORST ACTING I'VE EVER SEEN
Review: First off, the acting stunk. That gives it a one. But it kept me watching from a LITTLE suspense so that gave it a two. DON'T, and i repeat, DON'T buy the movie or rent it. You will just be wasting your money and time
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Summary: Awful!
Review: This is the worst film of last year. There is nothing positive to say about it. The script is a joke, the actors are irritating, especially Bridget Fonda and the dialouge is not at all funny. If you wanna flushyour money down the toilet then go right ahead. I am still wondering why I bought it. It's just a risk you take by buying a movie you haven't seen. Somtimes they are really good and somtimes they are bad but this one is the worst movie I've bought.
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Summary: Another giant animal runs amonk in the northern Maine!
Review: This movie is basically last summer's "Anaconda"in which a giant croc is killing off the widlife and those unlucky enough to meet it face to face! The movie has a decent enough cast ,just it kinda hard to tell if it's a horror,science fiction,mushy or comedy movie! The DVD of this movie has Betty White Saying things she says in the movie! The sound is quite good,but Fox still seems to be lacking extras on their DVD's ! Buy this movie if your a fan of B grade horror movies or a fan of the very similar movie "Anoconda"!
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Summary: Lake Placid
Review: "Lake Placid" is pure fun and excitement, filled not only with the gruesomely entertaining animal attacks from the "Jaws" megahits (Which if you haven't seen you must not be born yet) but with humor from the local sherriff (Brendan Gleeson), the stubborn anti-Maine paleontogist Kelly Scott (Bridget Fonda), croc-crazy mythology professor Hector Cyr (Oliver Platt), the mysterious old lady on shore (Betty White), and pretty much the whole cast. Other than talk not appropriate for children and believable gore, "Lake Placid" is a movie you'll want to see. The film starts when a game warden scuba dives in Black Lake, Maine to tag beavers, when he is fatally and bloodily struck and when he reaches the surface there's nothing left but the upper half of his body. The only clue to what was responsible for the man's death is a dino-like tooth found inside the man's body. Paleontologist Kelly Scott (Bridget Fonda) from New York, after breaking up with her boss, travels to the backwoods of Maine to the lake, called by some as "Lake Placid", to check out the tooth. Then an insane crocodile expert, mythology professor Hector Cyr (Oliver Platt) arrives, in hopes of finding what he thinks is responsible for the man's death: an Asian Pacific Crocodile. They soon discover a thirty-foot prehistoric croc in the lake (it bites off a deputy's head), being fed by a crazy elderly woman (Betty White) on the beach. Although the local game warden, Jack Wells (Bill Pullman) and the community sherriff want the beast destroyed, Cyr has other plans... A great movie, just as funny and comedy-like as it is entertaingly scary. Worth your eye.
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