Recent Reviews for Mammoth
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MCT:August 10, 2008This movie, while also being an absolute waste of time only kept me watching for the ludacres acting (which actually made me laugh).
This movie was just downright stupid, it was almost as if the movie itself was part mockery part serious which just turned out to be a big messy disaster.
I spent the entire (half) of the film wondering if Cole Williams was Summer Glau's sister, they looked so alike, their smile.
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MCT:June 21, 2008
I'll be completely honest here. My main reason for watching and hoping to like this film is Summer Glau. I guess actors pick lower then average movies sometimes, and this happens to be Summers.
This is a sci-fi original movie, yet it is a little different from what you may expect. Yes, this movie isn't all that great and it is made for TV, but I give director Tim Cox just a little credit for lessening the blow a bit. He decides to add a little stupid humor in here with some overacting, which makes this film seem less serious than other sci-fi channel original movies.
The very beginning of this film seems to pop out of nowhere and you can tell that this isn't a blockbuster in the making. Not more than a few minutes go by before the opening credits happen, which will just throw you off. I kid you not. From here on out the story becomes corny. How corny? Let's just say that this could pass as an episode of a cheap Men In Black spin-off.
You will not find a lot of action in here. In fact you won't find a whole lot of a raging mammoth. This is quite disappointing, but it isn't as bad as the cheap CG looking mammoth. I guess you could say that the less mammoth on screen the better.
The acting is OK. Vincent Ventresca overacts, but with the style of the film, it partially works out. Leila Arcieri and Summer Glau look good and do decent jobs. The rest of the cast is crap.
This movie is below average, but if you don't take this movie seriously, it isn't a complete waste of time.
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MCT:March 29, 2008I rented this movie, because Summer Glau was in it. I thoroughly expected it to be bad...but a silly movie about a rampaging mammoth featuring Summer Glau is probably so bad that it's good. Nope. It lost the privilege of that when they randomly introduced aliens into the plot. (Un?)Fortunately, I ended up falling asleep and missing the whole part that explained the alien involvement. Really, it deserves no stars...but the score is purely for the inclusion of Summer Glau.
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MCT:January 29, 2008actually an entertaining movie for the sci-fi channel but at the same time pretty damn stupid. a decent giant mammoth mixed with aliens says it all. almost to much to watch here!
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MCT:December 20, 2007Do you want to torture somebody?
Make them watch this, I will garantee you they will hate you for the rest of their life.
Their eyes will be sore from watching horrible acting, their ears will bleed from the worst script in history and their brains will explode from the "funny" comedy in this movie aimed for 4-year olds.
The problem with this movie is that it's trying to be horror, comedy and drama at the same time. All fail.
The horror is a mammoth possed by aliens (???) that comes to life and suck souls out of people. The mammoth looks nothing like a mammoth and is way too small. It also has the ability to sneak out of a museum even though it is too big for the doors.
The drama is a scientist who is always late and can't keep any promises to his daughter (think Hook), which we've seen a gazillion times before and we know they will be friends in the end. Predictable and head-ache inducing.
But the worst is by far the comedy. Especially the scientist dad who slips on floors and people falling off roofs with cartoon music playing.
I can imagine a 4 year old laughing, but I got the worst headache ever watching it, it was just emberrasing.
So basically, the movie shifts between all these different aspects, making it a un-funny, un-scary and predictable drama. Utter crap. Not worth a rental.
And who was the monster, really?
The mammoth or the "heroes"?
Basically, they know a 18 ton Mammoth that is highly aggressive is on the loose - and they don't warn anybody!
They bascially let people die and only care about themselves and how to stop the mammoth, they even go into a cafeteria and order some milkshakes and don't tell the waitress she might be killed if she stays!
If that wasn't bad enough, they team up with a FBI agent who tells Daddy that if the mammoth dosen't die, the goverment will nuke the whole city and kill everybody.
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MCT:August 6, 2007
If some paint had been drying in the same room as I was watching this film, it would have distracted me.
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MCT:August 3, 2007
Aliens!!!
There were several ways which I thought they might use to bring a mammoth back into present day, a crazed scientist using DNA, a frozen mammoth defrosting, but I never expected a UFO crashing into a museum carrying an alien that possesses the corpse of the mammoth which then goes on a rampage sucking the life force out of people using it's trunk. I should've known.
Not a bad film really, certainly not one to be taken seriously and with a couple of good funny moments. Perhaps they should have made it less silly at times, or make the film more of a comedy as it seems to be trapped in limbo. Whatever was Tom Skerritt thinking? There are some good special effects in the film, but unfortunately none are mammoth related.
Fairly crap, but does get extra points just for the sheer craziness of it all.
"Dear God"
"God is for Sunday Frank, today we pray to Nike. Run!" -
MCT:July 10, 2007
One for the cheezy classics as it doesn't take itself seriously as who could with aliens using a defrozted mammoth to take over the world
