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Summary: Pointless drivel.
Review: Once again good spfx are wasted on a really bad movie. The script is perhaps the worst offender(if you don't count the cliched camera work and rancid score), giving decent actors nothing better to do than spout off terrible one-liners and smirk. If no one in the cast can take the giant croc serious then how can the audience? This film is by-the-numbers cinema of the worst kind. Cynical, condescending and just plain annoying, LAKE PLACID is a the cinematic equivalent of a pile of garbage. See ALLIGATOR instead.
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Summary: Chomp
Review: You have to love a flick about a giant crocodile that eats people! The characters are amusing and the dialogue is snappy, great fun for fans of the genre.
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Summary: Giant crocodile
Review: LAKE PLACID was a really good movie and it features a gigantic crocodile that could easily grab a bear and drown it. In fact there have myths of Gigantic crocodiles bigger than this crocodile. this crocodile is not as big as prehistoric crocodiles like the ANCIENT DEINOSUCHUS THE ANCIENT PHOBOSUCHUS OR THE ANCIENT GIANT GATOR all of these crocodiles were bigger than the crocodile in lake placid but this crocodile was still good and realistic. I hope that they make a sequel.
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Summary: frightless, laughless horror comedy
Review: `Lake Placid,' a pallid, pseudo-comic cross between `Jaws,' `Jurassic Park' and the legend of the Loch Ness Monster, at the very least, has the advantage of not taking itself too seriously. Otherwise, this silly tale of a giant crocodile inexplicably hidden under the depths of a Maine lake (named, for no apparent reason, Black Lake, not Placid) registers poorly on both the fright and the laugh meters. After a man is half-devoured by an unseen creature of the deep, a team of investigators heads out to solve the mystery and eradicate the problem. Knowing that such a plot premise would undoubtedly elicit more howls of laughter than howls of fear, the filmmakers obviously decided to beat the scoffers to the punch line and chose, therefore, to frame the film within the context of a comedy rather than a straight horror film. I doubt `Lake Placid' would have been a very effective film in either tonal mode, but the endless stream of sarcastic quips, `clever' asides and witless one-liners emanating from the mouths of the characters does become a bit wearying after about the first admittedly amusing ten or fifteen minutes of the film. In a similar vein, the characters (played by Bill Pullman, Bridget Fonda, Oliver Platt among others) come across as clever and likable in their early scenes but soon grow irritating in their repetitious flippancy and whininess. Betty White, as a foul-mouthed local resident, likewise falls victim to this pattern. The one-note script soon becomes grating and, with the humor rendered ineffective, all we are left with is a highly incredible, not very terrifying tale. There's not much to say about `Lake Placid' except to verify conclusively that a horror/comedy without either horror or comedy has pretty much doomed itself to the video recycle bin for all eternity.
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Summary: Wait until this one is 50 years old before seeing it
Review: This is a B movie, reminiscent of those black and white '50s flicks where a giant octopus sprawled all over the Embarcadaro in San Francisco, a huge praying mantis crawled up the Empire State Building, or gigantic ants spewed out of the Los Angeles sewer system. This flick has a gigantic crocodile in a Maine lake. But unlike the recent "Anaconda," this film has some good special effects, and at least is more entertaining than the pathetic "Anaconda." Maybe someday we'll look back on "Lake Placid" too with relish and nostalgic glee, but for now it is ... just ho-hum. But Betty White is worth watching this one for. She has two very funny lines in this sorry movie. And it was a bit of genius, casting her in the role which she plays. She's somewhat of an animal rights activist in real-life, I believe, and what she does in this movie, in hind-sight, is quite humorous.
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Summary: Great cast, lousy script
Review: Ripping just about everything from the cheesy but much better Alligator but putting it in the woods Lake Placid is a by the numbers horror flick. Worse than that its a late 90s early 00s horror flick, ah, the late 90s-00s, the darkest hour for this genre, not a single good movie in the Hollywood system worth seeing. This movie bombed at the box office, big deal, all great films bomb at the box office but when you see this you'll see why. Bridget Fonda, Oliver Platt (finally getting some recognition!), Bill Pullman and Bredan Gleeson are all great together but the script barely lets them do anything, they make sure Fonda and Pullman are together in every single scene cause, you know, Hollywood has this sick fixation in their heads that EVERY SINGLE FILM ON PLANET EARTH MUST HAVE A ROMANTIC SUBPLOT. I'm pretty sure the original script for this film was awesome but probably got altered around to this muck, there is also this "AWW ISN'T THAT CUTE" factor in this film that is absolutely revolting.... embarrassing dot thrown in from the studio I'm sure. The special effects are pretty um, bad. Can't anyone take a lesson from Aliens, hell Alligator! Both films used nothing but miniatures and blue screens and the effects are absolutely flawless, no, just throw in some cheap CGI (d)effects these days and think people are too stupid not to notice (and judging from some reviews here I'm right). They are terrible! It looks like someone got a crayon and scribbled all over the film! Look at the bear scene! Is it me or is that bear deflating? Horror films today are boring, too cliched and formulatic, everyone is scared to take risks in the genre and they keep making "safe" crap like Lake Placid, Deep Blue Sea, Stir of Echoes, Scream etc. I would mention some great horror films but if you're a fan of this movie you are lost, sorry. If you like it pick up the DVD, mainly for the widescreen which is a major improvement over the pan and scan (BAN PAN AND SCAN!), crisp audio and screen. While watching this movie I noticed a large amount of cuts that came too late (and some really bad continuety problems), obviously, again, from the evil studio to keep the movie under 1 hour and 30 minutes cause they have another sick fixation that EVERY FILM THATS NOT "SERIOUS" MUST BE UNDER 1 HOUR AND 30 MINUTES CAUSE PEOPLE ARE TOO STUPID TO STAY IN THE THEATER ANY LONGER. It looks to me like alot of scenes were cut from this movie, ALOT. I thought they would be on this disc but of course not. This is pure garbage, go buy The Evil Dead and its sequels, much better than this.
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Summary: Waste of Time
Review: I watched this movie last night on HBO and I'm sure glad I didn't waste my money on this one. The storyline is about group of so called experts who try find and eliminate an alligator that finds its way into a lake in Maine. I think it was supposed to be a comic/horror movie. I enjoy humor but the oneliners in this movie were so bad they made me wince at first and then eventually became annoying. I enjoy Betty White's acting and she is extremely funny (not in this movie) but I did not find her foul language amusing. This movie was poorly written. I think an elementary student could have written a better one. My favorite character was the alligator and I found myself hoping he would devour these idiots and end it all sooner than the 90 minute length. My advice: SKIP THIS ONE.
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Summary: A movie everyone should've paid more attention to.
Review: T.V.Guide gave this movie 1 star and they have never misjudged a movie so bad. This movie ruled and that's the bottom line. The story is great as well as the f/x and the acting. There were people who said the crocodile looked fake,well in my opinion you couldn't have gotten more real looking unless you used a real one. Take my advice if you want a good movie with lots of scares and humor to boot,this is it. Definately check it out,you'll thank me later.
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Summary: Desperately Needs To Be Scarier...
Review: Tranquil Black Lake, in Maine is the last place where you would expect a massive crocodile. Kelly Scott (Bridget Fonda) has Black Lake as her first field assignment, to investigate strange and deadly goings-on there. Irritated by her big-city manner is Jack Wells (Bill Pullman), who is also handicapped by the arrival of an eccentriclly smart professor. While it desperately needs to be scarier, the humour in Lake Placid it was really kept you wanting to watch it. There are lots of moments of stand-out hilarity which are well worth are look, but the film has lots of faults, particulary in the screenplay area...
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Summary: Great mix of horror and humor!
Review: Most of the times when a scary movie has humor too, it's all not scary any more, like "Idle Hands" and "Vampire in Brooklyn". Altough these movies were great and underrated, they just weren't scary at all. But there are some movies who succeed in being scary and funny, like the "Scream" movies and "Lake Placid". "Lake Placid" has some sitting-on-the-edge-of-your-seat scenes, but you will never jump off your seat (like happened to me with "Halloween H20", another Steve Miner film). But that doesn't bother, because now you have also great humor and action. The computer generated crocodiles are also great to see. So if you like to see a funny and not too scary movie, go see "Lake Placid", you'll be glad you did!
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