Lake Placid (1999)

Simply Perfect

People are voting emotionally.

It is neither dumb nor smart enough to be fun, and spends way too much time with its boring human characters.

One of the worst ways to make a cult movie is to set out to make a cult movie.

OK, so Steve Miner's "Lake Placid" contains a collection of clichéd characters - the sarcastic locals, the eccentric millionaire, and the scientist woman who freaks out at the sight of anything unpleasant - but you gotta love some of the things that the movie shows. When it got released, Entertainment Weekly's review of it was titled WHAT A CROC OF... and called it a monstrosity that sinks to the bottom. While obviously not any sort of high-value cinema, it's still a fun movie. The most interesting person in the movie is Betty White's character. She seems like the typical nice old lady, but she turns out to have a sharp tongue.Basically, the movie makes no pretense about what it is. I suspect that they had fun filming it. Producer David E. Kelley (Michelle Pfeiffer's husband) is best known for shows like "Ally McBeal" and is now behind "Big Little Lies".

I like this big monster cheesy horror. It reminds me of Anaconda (1997). There is nothing wrong with it at all. It is fast paced with a little gore and some strong horror. I love to hate the characters and it is funny enough to entertain when there is no giant crocodile eating people. One of the most enjoyable giant monster movies out there. Well worth viewing.

Stupid. There's a word I rarely use to describe a movie in a review, but I can't help it. This movie is stupid. Bad, boring and weak also describe it best. The best things going for it are the swear words from Rose Nylund, Oliver Platt was sometimes funny and unbelievably, the croc didn't look half-bad. And all those accounted for a half star increase...because everything else was just trash. Not even B-movie fun. Bridget Fonda was annoying as all Hades, Bill Pullman hated to be here and it showed and the "awww fvck it, we ran out of money for a real climax" ending was laughably incoherent and incomplete. I love When Animals Attack films, so skip this and watch or re-watch the top notch B-movie of that genre: PIRANHA 3D. Cheers!

Took me 15 years to finally watch Lake Placid and the reason is very simple, I never heard a positive note about it even as it has rather famous thespians in it. But seen a few crock flicks they never could really get my attention, maybe Alligator (1980) did. But somehow I ran across Lake Placid via trailers so I tried it.People who are defending Lake Placid do say it's a comedy. Well, I agree, it's a big farce. Face it, I never had any scary moments and even as the crock looks great in all ways it never got my attention because there's a lot of talking going on and seen it full uncut it also didn't had gory moments a thing you expect from a crock bite, isn't it?What did you say, there are nasty bites, i agree again, but it's not gory at all. It's not because somebody is holding one's arm been bitten off that it is gore. I guess you get my point, a lot is done off-camera.And can the defenders tell me where the jokes are? Maybe I'm stupid or didn't get the point but no smile on my face.A bit predictable in places and the end is so,well, I just shut my mouth. As expected, not really my thing.Gore 0/5 Nudity 0/5 Effects 2,5/5 Story 2,5/5 Comedy 0/5