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Summary: Lame Crocodile
Review: Crocodile wants to show all the things that funny scary and smart LAKE PLACID didnÂ't had.Like a stupid group of teenagers and a stupid group of teenagers dead!.From the director of Poltergeist Tobe Hooper.The plot: A group of teenagers is celebrating the Spring-break by going to lake and having a 3 day party on a super cool boat.
Thanks to Kit(D.W. Reiser) and his girlfriend Annabelle(Julie Mintz).
When some of the kids discover a big crocodile nest, they think that is a good idea to break and crash all the eggs.But Hubs, one of the kid stole an egg, and crocodile is angry. The characters: Brady, he chaeted to his girlfriend Claire, with a stupid blonde girl called Sunny.
Duncan, is BradyÂ's best friend.They went to school together.
Claire, she wants to be with Brady.
Sunny, she only wants to be with Brady, but she doesnÂ't know that Claire is comming.
Foster and Hubs are friends, they only want to drink beer and sex.But they are too stupid to do that simple things. After the get really drunk, the crocodile starts to chase them.
But they canÂ't scape, Â'cause the ship is broken.So they have to run in to the woods and scape from the big 30feet monster. The visual effects sucks.The crocodile looks like a toy.
The canÂ't show the entire body, so they go with a mechanic head, that lokks pretty good, in the dead scenes.
A famous director like Tobe Hooper should do a better job that that. Crocodile is a friday night film, to watch with some friends or a girlfriend.
The acting is bad, the plot is worser and the crocodile visual effects are the worsest of thw worsest. Cast: Brady(Mark McLaughlin), Claire(Caitlin Martin), Kit(D.W. Reiser), Duncan(Chris Solari), Annabelle(Julie Mintz).
Running time: 90min.
Rated: R
Director: Tobe Hooper Final grade: D+
Rating: 
Summary: pretty good
Review: Crocodile was a good movie, except the crocodile looked kind of fake. But other then that...pretty cool.
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Summary: Chomp. Crunch. Splat.
Review: Having seen an edited version of this on TV, I didn't think much of it. It's watchable, but has no original ideas. The characters are pretty stupid, even for the genre. The crocodile looks pretty real, but it's not worth going out of your way for.
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Summary: Crocodile Kicks @$$!
Review: I absolutely love CROCODILE, it is my favorite movie of all time! It demonstrates the power of revenge (Shurkin the hunter), determination (the teens), and a mother's love (Flat-Dog the crocodile). Tobe Hooper makes another underrated gem! If like movies such as THE TEXAS CHAINSAW MASSACRE (original and remake), A NIGHTMARE ON ELM STREET, FRIDAY THE 13th, CANDYMAN, or HALLOWEEN, then you should sink your teeth into CROCODILE!
Be sure to also get the awesome sequel: CROCODILE 2: DEATH SWAMP!
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Summary: A so-so "bad movie"
Review: I can enjoy a bad movie if it is funny, creative, or at least entertaining. "Crocodile" is one of those movies, even if it is not very good. Two main problems: 1) The characthers are hard to tolerate. You even root for the crocodile. Really. They are childish, obnoxious and plain stupid. 2) The movie steals from everywhere. It starts with a comparison between sex and pizza, taken from "Threesome". Horror scenes that seems to be taken from "Night of the Living Dead", "Anaconda" and other are probably to "honor those monster flicks" (yeah, right). But there are some nice scares, and the last scenes are so foolish that you have to laugh in an enjoyable way. At least the movie keeps you entertained and it even surprises you. By the way, regarding other reviewers that complains that the movie is cheap (an usual comment on "B-movies"), please remember that the best horror flicks ("Night of Living Dead", "Halloween", "Texas Chainsaw Massacre", other) were very cheap. I am not comparing "Crocodile" against these classics, but it shows that is not the money and technology what counts.
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Summary: Better than "Eaten Alive"
Review: I can't say for certain whether Tobe Hooper's film "Crocodile" was the one to kick off the spate of low budget beastie flicks currently plaguing video store shelves. It might have been the one, though, since Hooper's activities have been known to attract copycats. Perhaps this director is simply ripping off his own work, as he was the one who made the atrocious "Eaten Alive" back in the late 1970s. That film involved a killer crocodile (or was it an alligator?) wreaking havoc in the bayous of Louisiana. Well, "Crocodile" is a much, much better film than "Eaten Alive," but it isn't anything to brag about to your friends. It's sort of sad that Hooper's film career has had more downs than ups. "Crocodile" will probably not rescuitate his flagging career. While the movie is often fun to watch, we need to be honest with ourselves and admit that we have seen this all before. Aside from "Eaten Alive," the 1970s and early 1980s saw a huge number of similarly themed films. You had alligators roaming through sewers, piranhas preying on swimmers, and sharks shutting down beaches. I'm guessing these movies have something to do with the human need to believe in civilization. By conquering whatever nature can throw at it, humanity proves its own inestimable worth and confirms its position as ruler of the earth. Before we can believe we are truly superior, we must make the requisite number of sacrifices to nature. In the case of "Crocodile," that means a bunch of college age kids heading out to a lake for a few days of summer fun. You've got Brady (Mark McLachlan), Claire (Caitlin Martin), Duncan (Chris Solari), Kit (D.W. Reiser), Annabelle (Julie Mertz), Sunny (Sommer Knight), Foster (Rhett Jordan), and Hubs (Greg Wayne) serving as the soon to be victims. The lead up to the massacre involves the mandatory relationship problems, overweening egos, and general bad behavior one expects from America's youth. For example, Claire is a nice girl just hoping to share a few precious moments with her lovebird Brady, but finds it difficult to hang out with him when his obnoxious friends show up. Too, Sunny has designs on Brady; designs that she hoped would find fulfillment on the trip before she knew Claire was coming along. Of course, Sunny and Brady have a little secret of their own that could cause serious problems for Claire. Yet, it is easy to forget such trivialities when the sun comes out, the water turns warm, and the alcohol flows like a river. Unbeknownst to our eight happy campers, something horrible lurks in the deep waters of the lake. Two insufferable fishermen first encounter this beast when they stumble over a nest of crocodile eggs on the shoreline. Being the ecologically minded souls that they are, the two yucks start throwing the eggs around, breaking the shells while they laugh maniacally. Sadly for the fishermen the mother croc turns up at an inopportune time, making her presence known in no uncertain terms by gulping up one of the fools in a single bite. The kids, camping some distance away, here the calamity but think nothing of it at first. They do find the nest the next day, and once again humans start mucking around with the croc's potential offspring. One of the kids hides an egg in Claire's bag, much to her chagrin later. Soon after, the crocodile finally makes herself known to the youths by destroying their houseboat and chasing them overland for miles. Shrieks, the beating of chests, and the tearing of hair follow all to no avail. The beast turns out to be the size of a blimp with the ability to run at mach speeds. Our heroes and heroines begin to drop off one by one, overwhelmed by the brute force of nature run amok. To explain the presence of this creature, some bunkum story emerges that a local resident brought giant crocodiles over from Egypt years before, but the kids don't really care about that once the bloodletting begins. They just want to get away with their lives. Some will, of course, but more won't. "Crocodile" is so formulaic that we can guess from the get go how it will wrap up. The general plot is rather pedestrian. The acting is, too, although it could be worse-and often is-in a film from this sub genre. The worst actor in the production has to be Sheriff Bowman (Harrison Young), the local cop who initially harasses the kids and then tries to save them. His leering, hammy performance didn't help the movie in any way. What really sets Hooper's movie apart from all the other efforts of the '70s and '80s are the special effects. Depicting an enormous crocodile with the ability to destroy civilization has to have shock and awe production values, so the filmmakers turned to CGI effects to realize their creation. A computer animated crocodile works most of the time, but occasionally looks a little cheesy. For instance, when the animal leaps over a boat sailing across the lake the effect looked like a computer animation. The techs did a better job when the crocodile attacks people. Pay attention to the scenes on the dock and on the boat. Good grief! The "Crocodile" disc include a few trailers, a behind the scenes look at the special effects, interviews, and a commentary track with Tobe Hooper. I should say that the problems with "Crocodile" pale in comparison with the inherent difficulties found in low budget dreck like the "Shark Attack" films. Here's to hoping Tobe Hooper can revitalize his flagging career; he will have to do better than this movie, but it's a step in the right direction. Give it a watch.
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Summary: ALLIGATOR+LAKE PLACID=a striaght A horror flick
Review: I have seen this two times,and it was pretty good then i thought.
Rating:
Summary: Highly entertaining and re-watchable.
Review: I know some people must think I'm nuts for rating a movie like this "5 Stars" but I'm rating it according to the type of film it is -- a Grade B creature-on-the-loose flick. Anyone watching a film called "Crocodile" knows up front that it ain't no "Apocalypse Now." With this understanding, "Crocodile" is quite simply a blast.
THE STORY: A bunch of college kids go out to a scenic vacation spot on Spring Break to have some fun in the sun and encounter a giant crocodile.
WARNING: To be expected in such a scenario the youths "party" and cuss a lot.
SPECIAL NOTE: This film is directed by Tobe Hooper, the hallowed director of the acclaimed "The Texas Chainsaw Massacre." I'm personally not a fan of "Texas" (I find slasher flicks boring in general) and feel "Crocodile" is the better effort.
WHAT DOESN'T WORK: There's a CGI scene depicting the crocodile jumping over a boat that doesn't work at all, not to mention, it was highly unbelievable (of course, the WHOLE film is unbelievable, huh?). Other than that the F/X aren't bad for a Grade B flick.
FINAL ANALYSIS: "Crocodile" is not great cinema but it is great mindless entertainment. It's got loads of energy. As testimony to its entertainment value, I've watched it three times in the last few years -- it's just a fun, re-watchable movie highlighted by some cute girls.
COMPARISON: I liked "Lake Placid," a film of the same ilk, but enjoyed "Crocodile" much more.
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Summary: For a "straight to Video" movie, this was awesome!
Review: I read some of the other reviews, and I agree that this movie should have gone to the theaters. I can tell this wasn't a big budget film which is probably why it didn't, but unlike the other horror "B" movies, this deserves to be classified at the top of its genre! It has the same kind of chemistry between characters such as in the "Scream" films and the dialogue in this is witty and fun and I actually cared about the characters. I've seen it only once so far several months ago but at this cost, it's worth owning to watch again. Check it out (but only rent the sequel...its not as good as this one).
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Summary: GREAT!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Review: I REALLY LIKED THIS MOVIE!! ITS THE BEST ANIMAL ATTACK MOVIE EVER!! It has lots of gore and action. I highly recomend this movie to everyone, even if they hate animal attack movies. Its when 8 collage friends take a vacation on a nice house boat and one friend steels a crocodile egg. WHen the mother croc (flat dog) sees this, she kills the friends one by one to get her baby back.In the end she gets her baby back. She ate 4 of the collage students and got 1 blown up. Tobe Hooper did a great job! I really think you should see this.
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