Tremors

Rating:
Summary: Five stars if you have a sense of humor...
Review: One attribute that makes for a great movie is not expecting much of the movie in the first place, but being pleasantly surprised-- going to watch 'Conan' star in the Terminator comes to mind. Well, not much was expected of Tremors, but grudgingly on the recommendation of a friend I went ahead and watched the flick. Boy, was I surprised. This movie is all about perfect timing-- just enough comedy, but not overboard. Yes, some thriller suspense, but timed perfectly. The sight gags are incredible -- I laugh just thinking back on the pole vaulting rock hoppers, and the unappetizing pogo stick shooting back into the air. This flick deserves cult classic status.

Rating:
Summary: Pardon my French
Review: Tremors takes place in a small village called Perfection in the Nevda desert. A nice village, with only a handful of people who live there. There's only one store, and the town has a unique problem. A underground creature problem.
A creature dubbed "Graboids" lives underground and hunt by movements above ground. Graboids are 30 foot long creatures that like to munch on anything and anybody.
Fred Ward and Kevin Bacon are the "handy men" of Perfection, taking care of all the dirty work. They both start to move to the next town, but the road is blocked.
The town is anything but Perfection when the graboids start to munch on the townspeople. Only a handful of people live through the movie, like all horror movies.

Rating:
Summary: Flesh-Eating Worms in Nevada.
Review: TREMORS, though not a great movie, has all the elements of a great movie. It's got a good cast (Kevin Bacon, Fred Ward, Michael Gross, Reba McEntire), decent plot (small desert town attacked by flesh-eating worms), lots of action and suspense, very realistic special effects, and plenty of humor mixed in. The movie makes no qualms that its a rehash of the old sci-fi flicks of the 1950's and 1960's that starred giant insects. However, TREMORS makes it all seem so new. The only drawback is that the movie never explains where the "graboids" came from (perhaps to be discussed in a sequel). Whereas JAWS is to MOBY DICK, TREMORS is to comic books.

Rating:
Summary: A personal favorite.
Review: Hungry giant worms lay siege on the small town of Perfection, Nevada and its up to Kevin Bacon and Fred Ward to find a way out. Supremely entertaining horror/comedy features an action-packed and frenetically paced second half, plenty of laughs, and great chemistry between Bacon, Ward, and Finn Carter. An all-around excellent genre film and one of the best of its kind. Yes, it's every bit as good as you've heard it is and then some.
**** 1/2 out of *****

Rating:
Summary: I Never Get tired of this movie
Review: This is a great movie,original plot.I thought the worm monster Idea is very cool. Fans of this movie will love the Second movie in this series.

Rating:
Summary: Suspenseful, and surprisingly entertaining
Review: I thought this would be a cheesy low-budget, no-plot film. Well, the plot was pretty ridiculous... but it was well thought out and described. Our family watched this film and was pleasantly surprised. There was a lot of action and suspense. If you enjoyed similar type movies like THE BIRDS, PIRANHA, and other similar movies... you'll like this one even more. This film has a great cast, and an adorable kiss scene with Kevin Bacon, that will leave you smiling.

Rating:
Summary: Don't Move, Don't Make a Sound
Review: That is the general premise of this movie. Creatures that can hear your movements underground. That is all that I can really say without truly spoiling the movie.

This movie is definitely a hilarious uproar that even the whole family could see. It isn't that graphic at all. The first time hat I saw this movie I was about 11, maybe 12 and my whole family laughed ourselves silly to this movie. The movie is filled with good dialogue and oddly enough and decent plot, all things considered. Fairly original.

Overall a good buy, definitely get this movie.

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Summary: Drive-in movie fare
Review: This movie is a kick in the butt, a throw-back to the old drive-in theater monster movies that where harmless fun. Bacon and Ward have great chemistry working and the rest of the cast
supports them well, Including an out of character role for Michael Gross. this movie also lays claim to one of my favorite
movie lines, "Have you ever heard of these things?" "Oh yea, everybody knows about them, We just didn't tell you. Watch this movie, you'll like it.

Rating:
Summary: Superb horror flick with action and humor
Review: What TREMORS is to me is a superb equivalent to 1981's AN AMERICAN WEREWOLF IN LONDON. Both are sharply written monster flicks, superbly written with plenty of shocks, surprises and tongue-in-cheek humor. The only difference is the rather graituitious use of graphic violence and gore in AWIL, while TREMORS is remarkably restrained on the violence.

Kevin Bacon and Fred Ward are perfectly cast as two independent cusses who work in a small town in Nevada. When they hear of rather gruesome demises of three people nearby, they freak and try to get out of it, but the unknown foe has blocked the road with a huge boulder. Meanwhile, odd seismograph readings are showing lots of seismic activity to a visiting student.

The two return to town, where the foe has turned out to be four oversized worms with a voracious appetite for people who can feel the vibrations of the people above ground and snatch them up. The result is scary, suspenseful, and downright funny, including an episode with a trigger-happy couple (Michael Gross, Reba MacEntire "Reba") who refuse to retreat from the hungry worms, now termed "Graboids."

If you're looking for a hardcore sex-and-slash-'em-up gore flick, this is not for you. If you're looking for entertaining horror flicks with light violence and profanity, then this is definitely for you, but don't get the two sequels. They're campier as they can get.

Rated PG-13 for profanity and light violence.

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Summary: When did you last see a monster flick that was also lovable?
Review: This movie may not be a boring, worthy classic like "Taxi Driver" or even an exciting, worthy classic like "Goodfellas", but it is one of my top personal great-Hollywood-popcorn-entertainment all-time classics. When my kids (3 & 1 years old) grow into monster-movie loving pre-teens I plan to introduce them to this one. It's got it all, starting with a very appealing cast (I could just adopt Fred Ward and Kevin Bacon,) very tense moments and a smart "how to get rid of that last monster" solution that doesn't involve the military or alpha-waves or other standard dumb ending. I haven't watched the special features of the DVD in a while, but I remember thoroughly enjoying the director's comments, special effects featurettes and alternative ending.

And I'll never, never get tired of watching Fred Ward and Kevin Bacon doing "rock, paper, scissors", bargaining with the store owner, or telling the road workers about the maniac in the neighborhood.

Yeah, I think I'll introduce my kids to "The Godfather", "Goodfellas", "Ed Wood", "Singin' in the Rain", "On the Waterfront", "A Christmas Story", "Some Like It Hot", "Rear Window" and "TREMORS"! (among others, of course.)