Crocodile (2000)

If you don't like this, we can't be friends.

if their story seems completely bonkers, almost like a feverish work of fiction, you ain't heard nothing yet.

One of the most extraordinary films you will see this year. Take that as you want.

By the time the dramatic fireworks start popping off, each one feels earned.

Well, it's crap, but it's entertaining crap. A lot of people judge this movie very harshly because it was directed by Tobe Hooper and I can't blame them. This isn't a good movie. It's silly, it panders to the teen crowd with awful dialogue and stupid jokes. The crocodile is laughable. Bad CGI. But there a few moments I do enjoy, some nice cinematography and overhead scenes of the lake and forest. And if you're a fan of the campy teen scare scene you'll probably enjoy the beginning at least a bit. Overall I'd say it's very middle of the road.

I gave it 3 stars, but to be quite honest I don't think it's worth any.I could hardly make it through the end. Being a fan of horror films and most of all of Tobe Hooper's earlier works (Poltergeist, The Texas Chain Saw Massacre), I was expecting "Crocodile" to be at least a decent film. Boy, I couldn't be more wrong! What a flop! The characters are shallow, the screenplay is painfully bad, and it is all absolutely predictable. The crocodile itself is absurd, sometimes I wondered if it was made of paperboard. Leave alone it defied most every law of physics known to men; it crashed an entire police boat in half, blew up trucks, ate people like chewing gum.But the special effects, surprisingly enough, were not the worst thing about it. The acting is laughably awful. The teens (who were at least thirty years old) tried really hard to make us believe that they were going through some tough times alone with a giant crocodile but, everything was so fake and exaggerated I couldn't help but laugh all the way through. The older actors seemed loose and I, for one, didn't think they quite fit in the storyline.If you're looking for a horror film, go watch something else. If you don't mind wasting a few hours of your life and want to laugh out loud at stupid special effects, that's your film. At least the Princess lived.

A 20 foot Crocodile and Tobe Hooper behind the direction; whats not to like about this film? The truth is everything. The sorry fact was that i never realised how much Tobe Hoppers directing career had gone done the pan.The setting of the film; a classic American Spring Break, with horny teenagers, booze and drugs. But what starts off as a break of a lifetime, ends in countless bloodshed. Whilst the story may appear to be appealing to some, the script, the acting and the direction are all questionable. Not to mention the fact that the main star of the show the 'Crocodile,'looks nothing like a normal Crocodilian would and ultimately the CGI is just ridiculous. No wonder this film side-passed the cinema and went straight to DVD.One of the most regrettable scenes in this film is that in the end there are actually three survivors. But one cant help but think this has been done before. Lets take a look back at Jurassic Park 3 in 2001. The Reptors leave the character's alone, once they regain possession of their offspring's egg. Sound familiar? The one thing that i cannot come to terms with, is the director responsible is Tobe Hooper. This kind of work is almost unrecognisable, if you take into consideration his success of the past. The most memorable being The Texas Chainsaw Massacre in 1974. How can a director who provided so much vivid innovation in one decade, be involved with a film which has little narrative, motive and ultimately no point? That being said, i will still remain a fan of Hooper's and I only hope that this is a minor blip in his career, and perhaps sometime soon he will be able to re-gain his crown for King of Horror and Suspense.

A pound doesn't buy a lot these days, so when I saw a brand spanking new copy of Tobe Hooper's Crocodile on DVD for precisely that amount, I figured there must be worse ways to waste a quid and 'snapped' it up.And while I don't exactly regret buying the film (I am, after all, a total horror addict, and will watch virtually any rubbish in order to satisfy my cravings), on reflection, a pound does seem a little steep.With its monster-movie-by-numbers plot (killer croc on the loose), one dimensional characters (assorted jocks and bimbos, a tough cop and an experienced hunter), and clichéd delivery, I realise that this film was never intended to be anything other than a bit of low-budget B-movie monster fun, but even with my expectations set low, I found Crocodile to be rather disappointing.Usually, even when at his most uninspired, Hooper is capable of delivering an occasional moment of dark humour, the odd creepy scene or convincingly nasty bit of gore, but with this lacklustre effort, he merely goes through the motions. The result is an instantly forgettable giant-killer-animal-on-the-loose straight-to-DVD clunker of the type found clogging up the bottom shelves at your local Blockbuster (the kind that sport such inventive titles as Octopus, Python, Spiders, and.... well ...Crocodile, I suppose).I'm not sure what the budget was on this production, but judging by the effects on display, I'm guessing it was mega-low. The titular monster is portrayed via an unconvincing mix of full-size models and laughable bargain basement CGI, whilst the sparse gore, by the usually reliable KNB FX group, definitely looks like it was knocked up on the cheap. Hell, the budget doesn't even stretch far enough to convince the babes to get their norks out—exactly what kind of B-movie is this, Mr. Hooper? If you can't give us decent gore, at least give us gratuitous nudity.To be fair, the film doesn't drag, and there is a certain amount of fun to be had from this flick's general cheesiness, but one can't help but wonder how the man who gave the world Leatherface could sink this low.The last time Hooper dabbled with killer reptiles, he gave us Eaten Alive, which I gave a reasonable 6/10. With this second attempt at a croc-shocker, he gets 3.5 (generously rounded up to 4 for IMDb). If I were Tobe, I wouldn't try again. I'll probably end up having to give a 1... and I really don't want to have to do that!!!