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Summary: Local Lake Under Management of Giant Crocodile!
Review: I first rented this on VHS at a local video store when me and the family decided to go riding about, I was completely captivatated from the beggining to the very end! The crocodile looks so realistic that it gave me nightmares! This wonderfully entertaining monster flick has great actors (Bill Pullman, Bridget Fonda, Oliver Platt is the man), a fun-to-watch sherriff, a crocodile kook (Platt), an old (potty-mouthed) farmer lady, an incredibly convincing croc. This is an awesome movie and is very underrated and is right up there with JAWS! The ending is just as good as well. I rented and watched this over and over and over again and NEVER got tired of watching it because it was soooooooo cool! Every time me and my folks would head to the video rental place, I would always, always, ALWAYS choose LAKE PLACID! LAKE PLACID is a movie I could watch about once or twice a week! And now, IT'S ALL MINE ON DVD!!!
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Summary: IS THIS A MOVIE?
Review: After seeing this movie advertised on tv, I thought that I just had to get it on DVD. This would have to be one of the poorest made movies that I have ever seen. Its very predictable, the acting is sub standard,there is very little action, the story line is weak and cheesy, and its a very short movie. It was hard to stay awake while watching this 1 hour long movie.
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Summary: An Off The Wall Horror Story
Review: A Classic Lake Placid is not. However entertaining it certainly is. The crocodile attacks are so sudden that anyone will certainly be taken by surprise. Somehow the motion of the crocodile does not seem to relistic. But then agan I an expert on crocodiles. I'll defer to the guru in the move. In spite of constant bickering between the cast members, someone this movie has an intriguing hold on me. Bridget Fonda's tempermental character is oh so annoying. Her reason for venturing to Maine is quite ridiculous. The story does unfold with a few unpredictable seasons. I sure did not expect the crocodile to attack the bear so visciously. The use of the cow as bait is quite hillarious. Gosh that Betty White plays such a goofball. Again, Lake Placid is not the stuff that legends are made of. Its just too far fetched in many spots. However as a light campy comedic horror adventure, Lake Placid will give you a few chuckles as well as some gasps as the crocodile attacks its victims.
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Summary: It's Placid Allright
Review: Stereotypical monster horror movie directed by David E. Kelley about a giant crocodile eating unwary visitors in a Maine lake resort(Maine? Why not Antarctica while they're at it?) starring Bridget Fonda, Bill Pullman, and Brendan Gleeson. Completely unoriginal and boring to add to that. There aren't even any of the sort of monster attacks one would expect to see in this type of film. After several minutes of just watching scenes of the lake, I thought I was watching a documentary on fishing. I wanted to yawn after the first 15 minutes. The movie has an absurd script made even worse by a lot of bad acting. The only credit I give to the movie is that it lives up to its title: it's placid allright.
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Summary: FantasticDan and Bugster say "it aint jaws but its close"
Review: Think of three things you want to see when you go to the movies. If you answered giant crocodile, obese town sherrif, and Oliver Platt, then Lake Placid is the movie for you!Wittness the terror of the beaver dam, a cow being dangled from a helicopter, and a showdown between a crocodile and a grizzily bear. Its actualy a pretty good movie, even if it is kind of stupid. It is fun to watch and the special effects are good. Its worth renting but i wouldn't waste my money buying it, unless you can find it cheap somewhere. Betty White is amusing as a foulmouthed old lady.
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Summary: If I could rate this at zero I would.
Review: So stupid! It was exactly like Deep Blue Sea dumb and the same things happened over and over again. Impossible things happened that wouldn't in the world that we have BRAINS! This movie is a disgrace to american movies! To all the people who don't want to waste their money on movies take my word this is one of the worst movies I have ever seen in my life. It is not even scary. Even the dumbest people could realize that! I hope I have told you how bad the movie is!
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Summary: Campy Humorous Horror
Review: I'm a little embarrassed to say that I've seen this turkey three times from beginning to end. The problem is that this is the kind of movie that in 20 years will be lampooned by a show like "Mystery Science Theater 3000", which tells you that it's campy and often funny. Our story opens at a lake in Maine, locally called Lake Placid, though that is not the name of the lake (that name was already taken, said one of the characters). We see a diver in the lake investigating a beaver lodge, with periodic fake clues that something might be in the water. Of course you know that we won't see the something until the director is ready, with the goal that you might jump at least a little. The diver of course ends up losing a lot of weight (about 40% would be my guess), and a lot of blood, which then ends his life. Of course, our "something" in the water leaves behind a little clue (a tooth), and Bridget Fonda has to be called in to find the something (she's a paleontologist, you see). Bridget Fonda is hilarious. She is all New York with the Maine locals, and the usual contrast between someone that hasn't the foggiest idea how to survive in the country with people who spend most of their time in it is great for laughs. Bridget also gets hit with a variety of animal parts (by accident), which is generally disgusting to anyone, but for an urbanite it must be truly awful. Bill Pullman plays the local sheriff, whose concept of animal control involves really big guns (from Bridget's point of view, he's definitely a hick). Bill plays this role so naturally that you have to wonder whether he could end up being typecast. Bill does several things that aren't very smart, and eventually he and Bridget come to middle ground (really middle by the end of the movie). Of course, the real star is the crocodile. I guess crocodiles weren't content to stay in New York City; they had to migrate further north. The movie explains this with hand waving about warm weather and the gulf stream and a convenient excuse to plot a crocodile into a Maine lake (it connects with the sea, you see). The crocodile makes a number of digital appearances, and several mechanical ones, and is often believable and just as often not. How the crocodile was dealt with near the end was reasonably original. No one is going to confuse this movie with quality. It's apparent that wasn't the director's intent in any case. This movie is played for campy laughs, and as such, it does a pretty decent job. This movie is the kind of movie that you watch with your significant other, in the dark, and with a bowl of popcorn on the table. It's not so much that it's a great movie, but it's very entertaining and just too much fun. Silly me, I'll be watching it again.
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Summary: One of my guilty pleasures
Review: OK, I know I like this more than I should, and I know on one level that it isn't really a 4-star movie. But everytime I see this movie I get a real blast out of it, and if I encounter it while channel surfing, I always stay for a while to catch my favorite bits. So why do I like this? I think partly for the sheer absurdity of it. Could anything sillier than an utterly gigantic crocodile living in a lake in Maine be concocted? Well, yeah, you could, but it is absurd, and the makers of the film treat it as so. The emphasis in the film is primarily on the characters and the humor, and far less on the monster. That isn't to say that there aren't some great moments featuring the beast. But the moments aren't always scary ones. When our croc lunges onto shore to grab a bovine snack, one is more apt to laugh than scream. What really makes the film work is the humor and the cast. Brigit Fonda is a bit too whiny in her role, but she provides some balance to all the guys. Bill Pullman is likable here as he always is. Oliver Platt is one of my favorite actors, and I never fail to love him in just about anything he is in. He adds spice here as a flamboyant crocodile hunter who comes and tries to steal the whole hunt for the predator crocodile. Australian character actor Bredan Gleeson is one of the most chameleonic actors in the world. He has portrayed a variety of bad guys in films, was "Monk" McGinn in THE GANGS OF NEW YORK, played a Latin revolutionary in THE TAILOR OF PANAMA, and has played a variety of Irishmen in several films. In this one, he plays the local Maine sheriff. I really enjoy the interaction between all the characters. In the end, I think what I enjoy most the the pure sense of fun everyone obviously had. It isn't a masterpiece, and it isn't one of the best films every made, or even one of the best monster flicks. But it is a lot of pure fun.
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Summary: Low body-count
Review: Lake Placid isn't even the name of the lake in this movie. A more accurate title would be Black Lake.
This is your basic monster movie. A guy gets ripped in half in the opener, hot girl and an assortment of characters arrive to investigate things. Girl finds body, that of a moose, and another useless character unexpectedly pops in a crocodile helicopter. Yep, you guessed it, its a crocodile monster! AAAAAHHHHH!
Please, it's about as scary as a scooby doo mystery. The best character in this film is the foul-mouthed old lady who lives by the lake. She really is protecting the croc, and is hiding a secret about it.
In the average climax, the paleontologist, (Bridget Fonda) has to swim around underwater for a bit, evading Mr Croc. The helicopter proves to be useful, capturing the monster. Mr Sheriff tries to blow it up, but surprise surprise, he's stopped by Fonda, who feels sorry for it. But then. boom! Yet another croc appears, but is quickly blown up with a shot from Mr Sheriff's over-rated cannon. The surviving croc is taken away, and foul-mouthed old ladies can now live in peace by the lake-side. But hten you see one little foul-mouth old lady playing with some litte baby crocodiles. Perfect ending for a sequel, thank god they haven't made one yet!
In conclusion, this movie might have been a hit in my books if it had one more thing. MORE DEAD PEOPLE!
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Summary: What an Imperturbable 'Lake'
Review: This is movie is one of the worst. Even the cover of the movie is a rip off of "Jaws." This movie is not funny, but extremely annoying. "Lake Placid" could've been so much better. That huge crocodile should've taken care of that senile woman by the lake. All of the characters are acrimon-ious, all deserving of a 'biting' surprise from the mutated creature. But no, the people who hardly have any lines get it, crunchy style. One of the worst movies ever. Now, I'm done.
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