A paleontologist is sent to a small Maine town to investigate the cause of death by a man attacked in the town?s lake. A study shows what to be near impossible; a crocodile has inhabited the lake. Trying to find reasons on how and why this crocodile is attacking people and why it is Maine, the paleontologist teams with the local Game Warden and Sheriff to find the answers. Lake Placid is a fun popcorn movie. If you decide to go into the movie thinking about the premises, you will surely be disappointed. The movie was written by David E. Kelly, who is one of my personal favorites in Hollywood. Lake Placid has a great combination of actors working well together to make up for the outrageous plot. The story is far fetched but entirely fun. This movie is a perfect way to spend a late Friday or Saturday for the horror/comedy buffs. Lake Placid gets three crocodile bites out of five for the pure fun of the film.
It's a big cheese crocodile movie which feels forced. Betty White can't save it with her humourous quips. There's no great battles or people being eaten. I wanted to forget it.
Too bad they make it more into a comedy than a horror film. It's just ridiculous most of the time. Poor acting from otherwise great actors. Best is Oliver Platt.
What's better then a giant hyper intelligent shark biting Samuel L. Jackson in half? Nothing, but this movie come close. Giant crocks and bad puns. Can't go wrong.
Eyev'e said it before and eye'll say it again eye just love films that involve a giant crocodile killing people. But it infuriates me that there are technically only two excellent ones Alligator, and Rogue. The third best being Primeval and this this movie landing down in fourth place. This movie delivered a good deal of scares mostly due to it's JAWS style of tension during the early minutes of the movie. But once the movie kicks in to it's CG crocodile things start to boil down to standard horror flick catagory. The only good scene with the CG crocodile is when it lunges out of the water and snatches a grizzly bear in it's jaws pure genius! The rest of the attacks fall into above average considering all the other similar movies with very cheap deaths. The actors in this movie are pretty good and they deliver a good number of laughs as well. If you love killer croc flicks this should be right up you'r alley. Just don't give the sequel a look it's painful. Check out my list of the worst movies of all time for the full scoop on the latter.
I really enjoy this movie. It's one of those movies I can watch every time I see it on TV, even though I own the DVD. Sure the crocodiles were obviously fake, but Oliver Platt is great. Betty White is pure comic genius in this movie. Her timing is amazing. My brother is a police officer. Thanks to Ms. White and this movie, he has had the nickname of Officer F*** Meat, since .
Probably worth watching at least once. A predictable film which isn't scary, but just one of those films where it seems like it's laughing at itself. Same sort of thing as Jaws, but not as good
How can you not enjoy this movie? A killer crocodile attacks a group of adults (including Betty White, who I love) with some really funny moments. Who knew Ms. White had such a mouth on her! But it was still an incredibly entertaining movie.
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