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Summary: Seems like a great horror/thriller flick!
Review: This movie seems great. My sister saw it and said it was the scariest movie ever. This movie is rated r for gore and language. In this situation, the gore is understandable. The gore is being presentated by an enormous animal attacking humans and animals, not some psycho with a knife. I don't like slasher movies like scream, halloween,ect. Lake placid is alot like anaconda ecept with a crocadile and it has more blood and a few more rude words. I'm buying this movie to see the plot, not to see the blood or hear the language. I just ignore all of that, especially the language. So if you like horror films I reccomend this flick, BUY IT!
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Summary: Where's the rest of the movie?
Review: Watching this movie, I felt like I had walked into a very good film after missing the first half hour or so. The cast was great, the plot fair, the special effects top notch, the script hilarious (intentionally), but the film could have been much better with more lead in to the story and more character development. I thought the characters in this movie were great, but I didn't realize it until the film was almost over. The script writer should have taken the time to endear the characters (including the croc) to the viewers before the big action began, so the viewer would have had a bigger emotional stake in the film. Oliver Platt had me in stiches and Betty White, our sweet daft Golden Girl cussing up a blue streak, is at least worth the price of a video rental.I could understand the shortcuts in the plot if the movie was pressed for time, i.e. if they were trying to keep the movie under 2 or 2 1/2 hours. However the movie was ONLY 83 MINUTES LONG! INCLUDING THE CREDITS! This movie had potential, but failed to hit the target. Like I said before, worth the price of a video rental, but overall it failed to satisfy because it felt incomplete.
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Summary: Good, but I have Seen Better
Review: Okay, this movie was good, but it wasn't the best! There were some good parts in it though. But I wouldn't give it 5 stars, thats just my opinion!
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Summary: Had Potential
Review: Great actors in a weak script. It's entertaining enough for the genre with the help of a short running time. The treatment of animals is upsetting, and Betty White's eccentric character comes off totally annoying. There is wonderful chemistry between the always excellent Oliver Platt and the deputy Sharon played by Meredith Salanger. One wishes that it could have been developed more, but that's another script. David Kelley (of the excellent "Picket Fences" and "The Practice," as well as the awful creep-fest "Ally McBeal") doesn't come through on this script.
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Summary: Not a horror movie
Review: When first watching this movie I thought it would be an action packed horror movie like DEEP BLUE SEA. But after seeing it I realized that it was definately not a horror movie just a action/comedy. Even though it wasn't scary it is still a very enjoyable movie, but it isnt showing us anything new.
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Summary: not much to sink your teeth into
Review: I was hoping for a juicy thriller, but instead got a real yawner. I like Bridget Fonda (as the pretty paleontologist investigating a mysterious death on an uninhabited Lake in Maine), Bill Pullman (as the debonair fish & wildlife hero) & Oliver Platt (as the rich & eccentric crocodile-worshipper), but even talent of this magnitude cannot make-up for a very weak plot & awful dialogue! One shinning star is Brendan Gleason who portrays the corpulent sheriff-with-a-heart-of-gold with alot of humor. I was most shocked by Betty White as the trash-mouthed granny who lovingly feeds the 30-foot menace her livestock! There are some funny parts and the special effects are quite good, but overall a rather silly movie that never quite delivers even one good scare.
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Summary: A VERRRRY FUNNY MOVIE / WITH SOME GREAT SCARES
Review: Simply great dark comedy. Remember this is a R-rated HORROR flick, so there is some rude language, so if you see this movie and you review it don't give it a bad rating just because the language (Its R-rated) Buy this movie if you enjoy Horror or Comedy. Its the best of both worlds.
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Summary: No JURASSIC PARK is this; still, a diverting monster flick.
Review: I come away from this film with mixed emotions. It is SO much better than some of its genre (e.g. Piranha!), and it is funny. The cast (headlined by Bridget Fonda, Bill Pullman, and Oliver Platt) works together well. The monster and much of the plot are a credible as are most monster films. But the effects pale beside those in, for example, Jurassic Park. What sets this film apart from many other monster films is its humor. It is very funny at times (and quite gruesomely shocking at others). The casting of Betty White as a sort of caretaker for the crocodiles is brilliant. Her language is, however, gratuitously vulgar at times. I don't think this film will cause anyone fear of swimming in lakes, but if you are into monster films it is well worth your time.
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Summary: A terrible waste of a 30 foot Croc!
Review: Lake Placid, one of the worst films of 1999, is so terrible it degenerates into a self parody, and even then, it's still not funny! If, by some insane impulse, you watch this trash, you will be laughing, not because the movie is at all funny, but at the sheer absurdity and ineptitude of the script. What kills Lake Placid the most is it's horrible script, composed of abrasions between cliched and uninteresting characters who are just screaming to be killed by the crocodile. Unfortunately, this film has the opposite porblem of DEEP BLUE SEA, in which it doesn't kill off enough of the annoying characters whom you want to see die. The film is so bad that instead of being merely predictable, it turns out to be less than that! In fact, hardly anything of consequence happens in this whole mess. The Crocodile, made by Stan Winston, is the only good thing in the entire movie, but it focuses too much time on its lobotomised dialogue and cliched characters (who are all played by well known stars, but look as if they'd rather be in other movies). Even if you're looking for a bad film, this one will test your patience. In short, this is the kind of movie where you don't know if you've been entertained, or insulted.
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Summary: Pretty Fun Movie
Review: I enjoyed this movie for what it was. A semi-low budget B-movie. Could it have been better, sure, but I think what was there was pretty good. The creature effects were ok, the blood and guts were pretty cool, and the characters were interesting (for a change).
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