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Summary: A monster movie--and--yes--IT'S ACTUALLY ORIGINAL!!!!!!!!!!!
Review: I went to see this expecting the usual monster-movie cinema junk. But this turned out to be the most original, witty, and well-plotted character-driven film I've seen all year. It really surprised me. It's being advertised totally under the wrong guise--this isn't another cliche-ridden gore-fest, its the most brilliant thing I've seen involving scaly reptiles with big teeth since "Jurassic Park"--and it's much more fun. Don't be put off by the rating its given, this is a fabulous movie.
Rating: 
Summary: So bad it's good
Review:
=>This movie is horrible (0 stars) yet so entertaining (5 stars) at the same time. (I'm not going to bother listing the actors)It follows a NY bitch, hick sheriff, eccentric man, and boring Fish & Game rep as they attempt to capture a gigantic man-eating crocodile. The characters are such morons it's laughable. For example, even though one diver was eaten the idiots go out on a tiny boat and dive and attempt to find out about the crocodile and attract it at the same time. I find Pullman lame (he does a bad job) and the Sheriff hilarious. The character interaction is great. In fact, they're all morons that hate each other, which makes it funnier. The eccentric man tries to swim with the gigantic crocodile because he thinks it's godly. There's a senile old woman the still feeds her "pet" even though it ate her husband. The special effects are mediocre at best. What do you get when you take a few hicks and a few big city yanks together with a man-eating croc? A stupid movie that is highly entertaining (aka laughable).
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Summary: More Funny than Scary
Review: I am looking for this movie because I want to buy it for my son who has seen "Jaws" already for the millionth time and I am afraid he will wear the disc out if I don't get him another comprable movie. This is the movie that I thought of that can match "Jaws" becuase it's sort of that fun, boo-scare-you, flick. It doesn't take itself seriously and the movie is full of interesting characters played by big name actors. What stood up for me is Betty White. Hands down she is the gem of this movie. It's like she won the "funny lines" lottery when they handed out the scripts. She plays a Lake resident who's husband is missing and the way she finally tells what happenned to him was so funny I was rolling on the floor. Oliver Platt got annoying, a little bit but thank god Bridget Fonda and Bill Paxton interceded with their likeable characters. I've rented this movie when it first came out on DVD and thought about buying it to include in my slumber party collection and I think this is the way this movie is going to get resurrected, through people who have a enough sense of humour and who knows what an excellent "giant animal ran amok" movie is all about. Gingerly place this next to your "Jaws," "Godzillas," "Tremors" on your DVD shelf, it belongs there.
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Summary: Lake Placid
Review: I thought the movie was cruel but funny. In this movie there lived a crocodile in lake placid. The first interesting thing to me was one guy's head was bitten off. They put a speaker in the water that was playing baby crocodile's crying. When the guy pulled up the speaker the crocodile came out of the water and bit the guy's head.
The second thing I liked was that everyone was fighting. They were arguing about killing the crocodile. Actually they weren't angry with each other. They were just telling their opinions. Hector was proud of his brown belt. But the sheriff punched Hector in the face because Hector said to the sheriff "punch me". Later the sheriff saved Hector.
Finally they caught the crocodile. They hung the cow from the helicopter to bring the crocodile out of the water. But the crocodile didn't come out. Later the crocodile came out of the water but the helicopter crashed into the water. Then the crocodile got stuck in the helicopter. Another crocodile came out of the water. Then the sheriff shot the gun and the crocodile exploded.
I would recommend this movie to my friends but I would not suggest this movie to the youths.
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Summary: hysterical!
Review: Tongue in cheek funny, Betty White is a riot. Not really a monster movie, its a comedy.
Rating:
Summary: More Funny than Scary
Review: I am looking for this movie because I want to buy it for my son who has seen "Jaws" already for the millionth time and I am afraid he will wear the disc out if I don't get him another comprable movie. This is the movie that I thought of that can match "Jaws" becuase it's sort of that fun, boo-scare-you, flick. It doesn't take itself seriously and the movie is full of interesting characters played by big name actors. What stood up for me is Betty White. Hands down she is the gem of this movie. It's like she won the "funny lines" lottery when they handed out the scripts. She plays a Lake resident who's husband is missing and the way she finally tells what happenned to him was so funny I was rolling on the floor. Oliver Platt got annoying, a little bit but thank god Bridget Fonda and Bill Paxton interceded with their likeable characters. I've rented this movie when it first came out on DVD and thought about buying it to include in my slumber party collection and I think this is the way this movie is going to get resurrected, through people who have a enough sense of humour and who knows what an excellent "giant animal ran amok" movie is all about. Gingerly place this next to your "Jaws," "Godzillas," "Tremors" on your DVD shelf, it belongs there.
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Summary: Watch It on TV
Review: Watch this at least once, just to hear Betty white cursing like an old salt. Then watch Hard Rain to see her as a crazy old broad out to kill looters. Then burn both films.
Let's be serious here. The psuedo-religious crocodile worshiping stuff by Oliver Platt was not needed. The idea of a crocodile living as far north as Maine is utterly laughable (damn, if they'd set it in SC or NC, I MIGHT have been able to suspend my disbelief)and the strategies used to catch it are even worse (dangle a live cow from a helicopter anyone?). Have the people involved with this film EVER seen Reptile Wild or any other program on National Geographic?
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Summary: Betty White Rocks!
Review: A Fish and Game worker is doing a survey of beavers in a placid lake with the local sherrif when he suddenly becomes half the man he was and dies. Local law enforcement, Fish and Game, and a New York museum worker set out to discover what happened. They are soon joined by an eccentric millionaire who loves crocodiles.Is there a crocodile in the lake? At first few believe that such a thing could be until hard evidence shows up. The Crocodile is not an ordinary one, it is thirty feet in length. The camp is quickly split between those who want to kill it and those who want to save it. To learn it's fate you will have to watch the film. This is a very well-done piece of work. The characters are interesting and there is just enough sarcastic humor to really lighten the mood. Betty White plays a foul-mouthed local resident and her delivery of her "I'm rooting for the crocodile" line is an instant classic. This is a fun film and far from typical. It is not just a giant-lizard-eating-people film. Check it out.
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Summary: Turn the Croc into shoes already....
Review: Both the actors and the fake looking reptile become tierdsome about ten minutes into the film, you want the monster dead, but first get rid of the cast, because they stink. David E. Kelly does bad TV shows, and he's no better at films.
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